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The Problem With Gun Control Laws

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Berenia Orozco

The problem with guns in America has been an ongoing issue for many years. According to statistics from the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, in 2010 alone there were about 31,076 deaths by gun and all were either homicides, suicides or unintentional shootings. 73,505 people were treated in the hospital for non fatal gunshot wounds in 2010 as well. Gun control laws are a benefit to America because they would help reduce gun deaths and other gun-related incidents all over the nation. Furthermore, they would reduce crime all over the country, for example armed robbery and assault with a gun, and homicide. Although it is believed that gun control laws will obstruct the right to self-defense or deny people a sense of safety, statistics show that guns are rarely used in self defense. Not only that, but the majority of adults including gun owners, support gun control such as background checks and bans on assault weapons (ProCon.Org). There have already been far too many innocent deaths in the past. Some where the six children, their mother and her boyfriend in Houston, Texas; nine people in a church in Charleston, South Carolina; there was the 53-year-old man who tried to stop three men from robbing a man’s minivan in Brooklyn. There was also the 28-year-old mother of two in Indianapolis whose husband shot her in the face 13 times; two young reporters who were shot to death during a live news broadcast in Moneta, Virginia, and the never forgotten

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