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Banning School Shootings
Many countries have a controversy whether they should ban guns or whether not to. In the United States they have not banned handguns completely like other countries. Can you just imagine how much peaceful things would be if they would ban them in the united states as well? Lately as you can see in the news there have been massive gun shootings in schools from all ages. How is it possible for just any one to get hold of a gun that easily? Some benefits to banning handgun would be there won't be so much gun violence, not everyone can get hold of a gun so easily, and the population or estimates of kids dying do to gun issues would drop massively.
Every day about 30 people either get shot or murdered by someone using a gun. In America approximately
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There has been a huge rise of school shootings in the last few years. Just in single school year there was about 336 gunshots at a DC school district (“School Shootings”). How is that even possible that so much shootings can occur. There were also shootings in colleges and high schools. Most of this shootings occurring in schools are on the Eastern Coast. In a map shown on “School Shootings in America since 2013” you can see there is a higher rate on that side of the country than any of the others. Decreasing all these school shootings would have a huge impact on everyone. It would make every parent feel safe about sending their kids to school knowing that their kids will be okay and come home safe. In the article “Analysis of School Shootings” there was 160 in at least between 2013-2015. There were 84 shootings in K-12 and 76 in college or university settings. That was across 38 states in the United states. That is way too much and that was all over the U.S. a few more states and it would have been in every single state. There have been some school shootings that have really impacted not just families but the whole country. For example, the Sandy Hook shooting was one that had the biggest impact. That was one of the deadliest school shootings in history. We as a country have to work together to decrease all these fatal shootings killing innocent children. Banning guns would be the main source in decreasing school

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