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Gun Control In America

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Imagine being a parent and walking into your child’s bedroom, seeing them lying dead in a pool of blood with a gun still in their hand. I believe there should more laws controlling who can have a gun and what kind of guns should be allowed to the public. Guns should be more regulated and less accessible to the public and there should be more laws created making it harder to buy a gun. Gun control laws are needed because it would put more control over who can buy a gun and would reduce the availability. In recent years, there has been alarming rates of mass shootings, suicides and homicides, and an increasing amount of gun related accidents.
Mass shootings have increasingly been in the news and are becoming more common. Mass shootings are increasing alarmingly as stated by Melissa Healy, a LA Times reporter, “Unfortunately, the 355th shooting that involved four or more victims this year suggested that already may be the case: In 2015, such occurrences have averaged more than one a day. In fact, the San Bernardino attack was Wednesday's second mass shooting - the first was in Savannah, Georgia” (Healy pg. 1) (logos). In 2015 alone, there has been a large number of mass shootings and people have fallen victim to these shootings. These statistics show that gun control should be an issue and that there should be more control over guns. Research by Harvard University suggests, “the frequency of mass shootings has increased threefold since

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