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Gun Laws Research Paper

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December 14, 2012 was just a normal day for the residents of Newtown, Connecticut; one being Nicole Hockley. Friday morning, she woke herself up along with her two sons. She got them ready for school, fed them breakfast, and walked them to the bus stop like always. About an hour later after Jake and Dylan had arrived at school, a twenty-year-old man named Adam Lanza shot his way into the school killing six educators and twenty children. When Nicole got to the school she found out that Jake was safe, but Dylan had been shot multiple times and died in his teacher’s arms; she too was killed in the attack. For the next two years Nicole and her husband had to watch their son Jake grow up while it was as if Dylan was frozen in time. Nicole is now …show more content…

(CNSNews.com) A study performed at the Brookings Institution Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy counts only 300 relevant federal and state laws regarding the manufacture, design, sale, purchase, or possession of guns. If there are supposedly 20,000 gun laws written on the books, then why on earth are only 300 actually relevant? Why even have 20,000 gun laws if the government and states aren’t going to enforce them? Every state should have the same number of gun laws and they should all be of the same meaning. Each state across the U.S. has 1-13 gun laws, but is it about the number of laws or the meaning of them? Author Jon S. Vernick says in a press release “In the future, rather than trying to count the number of gun control laws, we should try to better evaluate the effect of those laws”. Vernick goes on to say “Since the notion of the United States having more than 20,000 significant gun laws has become such an important point of reference in the ongoing debate over guns in America, we thought that it would be worthwhile to document the meaningful state and federal laws”. I would have to agree with Mr. Vernick in saying having so many laws is crazy when only around 300 of them mean anything to begin with; meaning is definitely more important than numbers. One law that needs to be enforced upon stores that sell guns would be background checks. Background checks need to be made universal not just based on the state. For example, if someone committed a crime in another state making them ineligible to own a gun, it would not show up in just a standard state background check; but making them universal would mean the data base would look at past offenses in other states. The types of guns’ people can own should be limited. Assault weapons have absolutely no place beyond the battlefield. There is really no logical reason as to why someone would need an assault weapon in

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