Gun Control by Rasmus Olsson
Gun control
Introduction
On July 12 2012, James Eagan Holmes walked in to a cinema dressed in tactical clothing, armed with tear-gas grenades and several firearms he killed twelve people and injured fifty-eight.
On December 14 2012, twenty-year old Adam Lanza walked in to Sandy Hook elementary school and killed 20 children and 6 adults armed with combat gear using semi-automatic guns.
In Australia, a mass shooting occurred at the popular tourist site Port Arthur leaving 35 people dead and 23 injured. Two weeks after the incident, at May 12 1996 the Australian government reviewed their gun control laws, and made it much harder for a private person to get a gun. There hasn’t been a mass shooting since.
I’ve chosen to write about gun control. In many states in the U.S all you have to do to get a gun is go to a gun store, pick your gun and write some papers. Gun control is a huge political question in the U.S, especially now when many school shootings and other public shootings has taken place in USA. Under 2011 in the U.S has more than 12.000 people been killed by firearms. And in whole America it’s an average of 82 people per day killed by guns.
Background
Guns have a big role in USA’s history, the gunfight at O.K Corral and the story of Jesse James are stories that almost every American is familiar with. Hunting and target shooting is very popular in the U.S, and somehow it seems like almost everyone have some sort of relation to guns whether it’s about using it for hunting, target shooting or self-defense. That’s where I think the problem lies; it’s so many people who are attached to their guns so it’s becoming very hard to convince people that guns causes problems more than doing any good.
Already for over a hundred and fifty years ago guns was becoming a huge part of the American people’s lives. Revolvers and rifles in general are very associated with the Wild West. Back then guns were something everyone owned, as much as you needed
Introduction
On July 12 2012, James Eagan Holmes walked in to a cinema dressed in tactical clothing, armed with tear-gas grenades and several firearms he killed twelve people and injured fifty-eight.
On December 14 2012, twenty-year old Adam Lanza walked in to Sandy Hook elementary school and killed 20 children and 6 adults armed with combat gear using semi-automatic guns.
In Australia, a mass shooting occurred at the popular tourist site Port Arthur leaving 35 people dead and 23 injured. Two weeks after the incident, at May 12 1996 the Australian government reviewed their gun control laws, and made it much harder for a private person to get a gun. There hasn’t been a mass shooting since.
I’ve chosen to write about gun control. In many states in the U.S all you have to do to get a gun is go to a gun store, pick your gun and write some papers. Gun control is a huge political question in the U.S, especially now when many school shootings and other public shootings has taken place in USA. Under 2011 in the U.S has more than 12.000 people been killed by firearms. And in whole America it’s an average of 82 people per day killed by guns.
Background
Guns have a big role in USA’s history, the gunfight at O.K Corral and the story of Jesse James are stories that almost every American is familiar with. Hunting and target shooting is very popular in the U.S, and somehow it seems like almost everyone have some sort of relation to guns whether it’s about using it for hunting, target shooting or self-defense. That’s where I think the problem lies; it’s so many people who are attached to their guns so it’s becoming very hard to convince people that guns causes problems more than doing any good.
Already for over a hundred and fifty years ago guns was becoming a huge part of the American people’s lives. Revolvers and rifles in general are very associated with the Wild West. Back then guns were something everyone owned, as much as you needed