Introduction Gun control has been a topic of debate in our country since before the creation of the Declaration of Independence. So much so, the individual liberty of the right to bear arms was implemented into the Bill of Rights as the second amendment. The implementation of this individual liberty wasn’t to suggest that any citizen of the United States can own or obtain a gun and therefore later federal and state laws were implemented to regulate ownership. Even so, there are an overwhelmingly large amount of guns that are possessed in this country illegally and under the radar of the federal and state governments. Today in our country alone there are 88 guns for every 100 people living in the United States (“Gun Control Overview” 4).
Recently in our society we have seen a heartbreaking amount of school shootings, terrorists attacks, suicides, and innocent people being killed by the use of guns. Tragedies like these re-spark the debate between gun control and gun rights in …show more content…
About half of unintentional fatal shootings are self-inflicted; and friends and family are to blame for most unintentional firearm deaths. According to the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence and the National Physicians Alliance, because our country has the highest concentration of guns this results in nine times the amount of accidental gun deaths and 89% of unintentional shooting deaths of children occur in the home. The US General Accounting Office (GAO) estimates that 31% of accidental shootings could have been prevented if proper safety features were mandatory and almost all if not all child deaths would be prevented by automatic childproof safety lock installments (Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence). If we can save just one innocent life by implementing these stricter gun control laws wouldn’t it be worth
Recently in our society we have seen a heartbreaking amount of school shootings, terrorists attacks, suicides, and innocent people being killed by the use of guns. Tragedies like these re-spark the debate between gun control and gun rights in …show more content…
About half of unintentional fatal shootings are self-inflicted; and friends and family are to blame for most unintentional firearm deaths. According to the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence and the National Physicians Alliance, because our country has the highest concentration of guns this results in nine times the amount of accidental gun deaths and 89% of unintentional shooting deaths of children occur in the home. The US General Accounting Office (GAO) estimates that 31% of accidental shootings could have been prevented if proper safety features were mandatory and almost all if not all child deaths would be prevented by automatic childproof safety lock installments (Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence). If we can save just one innocent life by implementing these stricter gun control laws wouldn’t it be worth