The biggest issue that is seen multiple times a day on our television screens are about either the weather, President Trump, Transgenders/the LGBT movements, police brutality and gun control. But, since we continue to see and hear more tragic stories about individuals dying due to firearms whether from a mass shootings, police officers or just from regular gun-on-gun violence, gun control has been one of the top trending topics to speak about in today’s news, social media and local conversations. Gun control is and always be a sketchy topic to get into due to everyone having their own beliefs, emotions and reasons behind their explanations. But as I continue to look around and hear a little bit of everyone’s explanations to ban or make it harder
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Some of the misconceptions that exist currently is that having more firearms cause more gun violence and kills more than it saves, and the conversations of the government or law enforcement to take away our firearms all together would make our country safer. But through doing intense research on the subject to seek other forms of trustworthy statistics and facts, it shows that these “theories” are very untrue. For a good period of time, the CDC was ordered to not do research on the defensive use of firearms. But 2012 after the unfortunate school shooting of Sandy Hook Elementary, President Barack Obama issued out an executive order that year that allowed the CDC to conduct their own research and review past studies on the causes of gun violence and how to properly reduce it in our country. The report stated “Studies that directly assessed the effect of actual defensive uses of guns have found consistently lower injury rates among gun-using crime victims compared with victims who used other self-protective strategies...with estimates of annual uses ranging from about 500,000 to more than 3 million per year...”. Overall, a minimum of 500,000 and up to 3 million citizens use their ability of having a firearm to either protect themselves or others. Now, by the same agency, the CDC, on their website, shows that there is an average of 36,000 deaths caused by firearms overall. But, only 11,000 out of the 36,000 are non-suicide related cases. So the comparison of the lives lost to the lives saved and protected by firearms are separated by a huge bracket. A research report was done by John Lott, he wrote “More Guns, Less Crime”. In his research he
Some of the misconceptions that exist currently is that having more firearms cause more gun violence and kills more than it saves, and the conversations of the government or law enforcement to take away our firearms all together would make our country safer. But through doing intense research on the subject to seek other forms of trustworthy statistics and facts, it shows that these “theories” are very untrue. For a good period of time, the CDC was ordered to not do research on the defensive use of firearms. But 2012 after the unfortunate school shooting of Sandy Hook Elementary, President Barack Obama issued out an executive order that year that allowed the CDC to conduct their own research and review past studies on the causes of gun violence and how to properly reduce it in our country. The report stated “Studies that directly assessed the effect of actual defensive uses of guns have found consistently lower injury rates among gun-using crime victims compared with victims who used other self-protective strategies...with estimates of annual uses ranging from about 500,000 to more than 3 million per year...”. Overall, a minimum of 500,000 and up to 3 million citizens use their ability of having a firearm to either protect themselves or others. Now, by the same agency, the CDC, on their website, shows that there is an average of 36,000 deaths caused by firearms overall. But, only 11,000 out of the 36,000 are non-suicide related cases. So the comparison of the lives lost to the lives saved and protected by firearms are separated by a huge bracket. A research report was done by John Lott, he wrote “More Guns, Less Crime”. In his research he