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The Importance Of Gun Control

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Guns are one of the many reasons there are multiple violent crimes occurred in the United States. While a great many people see guns as causes of terror, there are others who would prefer them as ways of protecting themselves from various types of potential threat. To this day, the United States is being divided when it comes to gun ownership across the country. The argument always emerges as the number one topic to be discussed whenever catastrophic events had occurred in the United States to the point even the people of other nations can do nothing but only speak out their views on gun control laws. Some heavy security improvements must be taken into action as soon as possible to avoid such chaotic incidents to ever happen in the future. …show more content…

After the massacre was done, the police had found that Paddock had killed himself along with the rest of his guns. “Police said Paddock had at least 23 firearms in his hotel suite” (CBS). Assuming he was alone, one would beg for an answer as to how did he bring those many weapons to the suite without anyone noticing in the first place? The only viable reason is that the hotel did not have a top-notch level of gun security. To this day, Paddock’s motive is still unknown, in fact, he had a clean background record which does not make sense at all regarding his awful actions (Fox4News). The NRA released a statement upon the massacre which says, “Banning guns from law-abiding Americans based on the criminal act of a madman will do nothing to prevent future attacks” (NRA). In reply to the said statement, Paddock was actually a law-abiding citizen himself with guns who turned out to be a terrorist and use them as an advantage in which a point is being made that the “madman” was not always a madman. The NRA assumes that none of the innocent citizens would end up doing the same unlawful actions as Paddock did. When a comparison of countries is taken into consideration, the United States is the country that has the most number of homicides and suicides that are caused by guns. Australia had experienced a mass shooting back in

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