Essay On Gun Related Violence
The most important issues the US is facing right now is gun-related violence. There have been a lot of gun-related incidents for decades, but in the last few years they have become much more frequent, as pointed out by the Gun Violence Archive. And now people are paying more attention to the problem of gun-related incidents and the gun regulations, especially after the shooting in Charleston, South Carolina on June 17th this year.
A research done by University of Sydney estimated that there about 270,000,000 guns owned by citizens in the US. That is 85 guns per 100 people and that is just counting legally purchased guns. The Second Amendment gives U.S. citizens the right to bear arms and right now, there are not many regulations for guns. The National Firearms Act of 1934 restricts civilians from owning powerful arms like automatic weapons, short-barreled shotguns, hand grenades and others. The Guns Control Act of 1968 requires any gun seller to get a federal license and to keep a permanent sales record, and it also forbids to knowingly …show more content…
They say that getting them off the hands of the people will reduce the number of gun-related incidents. They also say that a lot of guns in the hand of the people may lead to more suicides and to children accidentally playing and firing guns, and therefore guns should be used only by the police and the military. They support those claims with some studies that show a correlation between high rate of private gun ownership and high number of gun incidents, and the most important of those would be the one done by the American Journal of Medicine. In short, they believe that if the government can get everyone disarmed, then violence will stop, and that gun regulations are a step towards it so those regulations are good. President Obama and most Democrats support gun
A research done by University of Sydney estimated that there about 270,000,000 guns owned by citizens in the US. That is 85 guns per 100 people and that is just counting legally purchased guns. The Second Amendment gives U.S. citizens the right to bear arms and right now, there are not many regulations for guns. The National Firearms Act of 1934 restricts civilians from owning powerful arms like automatic weapons, short-barreled shotguns, hand grenades and others. The Guns Control Act of 1968 requires any gun seller to get a federal license and to keep a permanent sales record, and it also forbids to knowingly …show more content…
They say that getting them off the hands of the people will reduce the number of gun-related incidents. They also say that a lot of guns in the hand of the people may lead to more suicides and to children accidentally playing and firing guns, and therefore guns should be used only by the police and the military. They support those claims with some studies that show a correlation between high rate of private gun ownership and high number of gun incidents, and the most important of those would be the one done by the American Journal of Medicine. In short, they believe that if the government can get everyone disarmed, then violence will stop, and that gun regulations are a step towards it so those regulations are good. President Obama and most Democrats support gun