Gun ownership is an American tradition older than the country itself. Guns are dangerous, and about 200 Americans go to emergency rooms every day with gunshot wounds. The United States Second Amendment states that people have “the right to bear arms” and protect themselves. but that doesn’t means an unlimited right to own guns. There should be stricter legislation for gun control, that helps reduce the crime which is most issue in today. More gun control laws would reduce gun accidental deaths which is a good start to care and protect the life. And decrease the societal costs associated with gun violence improve the society. Some people want to own a gun just to protect self so they don’t want stricter …show more content…
Humans are one of the most contradictory creatures in the world. You will never know that a smiling person will stab you behind you. Also you never know people would selling gun illegal to criminals. According to Jelani, Cobb Who was professor of journalism at Columbia University stated “The Chicago Police Department seized sixtyfive hundred and twenty-one illegal firearms.” which means there’s a lot of sale of illegal gun in the society. Those gun might be sale to criminals and they might use those illegal gun to kill peoples. And those people don’t even know how many people died by gun. According to the article “Should More Gun Control Law Be Enacted” from ProCon has described “There were 464,033 total gun deaths between 1999 and 2013: 174,773 homicides (37.7%); and 9,983 unintentional deaths (2.2%). Guns were the leading cause of death by homicide (66.6% of all homicides).” The more guns that people have, the higher rate of gun death would happen. Gun can be protective and also can be aggressive, it depending on people. People should identify the owner of the gun, which is the great way to prevent illegal selling the gun and it effectively help reduce the gun death. According to scientist Carina, Storrs has published” Implementing federal universal background checks could reduce firearm deaths by a projected 56.9%; background checks for ammunition purchases could reduce deaths by a projected 80.7%; and gun identification requirements could reduce deaths by a projected 82.5%.” This is well to do, government of U.S. should made up a law which is check the owner of the gun. Government should try harder than now to identify the everyone who owned the gun, as well as check them every month to make sure if they still own their gun, even bullet, to prevent they don’t shoot anyone by gun. This will avoid the chance of shooting, Nobody would get shooted, if people don't have the