Gun Violence Analysis

According to Gun Violence Archive; a non-profit organization who utilizes its resources to gather statistics to report back to the public to ignite awareness, has recently reported the latest numbers of 2015. It is important to emphasis that GNA is not of support of gun possession but neither deflects from the functionality of gun use in America. In 2015, there have been more than 50,000 incidents of gun violence. This number is inclusive of homicides, gang assaults, self defense, and accidental shootings. This number does not include the 20,000 suicides that have occurred with the use of a firearm in 2015. GVA has reported that 36 Americans lose their lives each day due to gun use, and as of December 2015 a total of 12,942 people have died
According to GunControl Pro and Con published in 2016 reported that firearms were the 12th leading cause of all deaths, representing only 1.3% of total deaths in the United States. With over 200 million firearms in the United States, and millions of legal gun ownership in the U.S., how can that many people have it wrong? If all of those people feel it is right to own a firearm, it is going to take a lot of convincing to think otherwise! Gun control laws do not deter crime. How do I know this? Well let us evaluate other countries that have implemented stronger gun laws to deter crime and death in their society, and see if it is plausible to pursue such within the United States. The United Kingdom is known for having strict gun laws, laws that strictly prohibit the possession of firearms, but according to the statistics of 2015, there were 2,034 violent crimes per 100,000 people in the UK versus 466 violent crimes per 100,000 people in the United States. And despite strict gun regulations, Europe has had 3 of the worst 6 school shootings. In Mexico, there is only one gun supplying store; the Directorate of Arms and Munitions on a secure military base, that will allow its citizens “who can provide proof of income, references, pass mental health evaluation, and pass a criminal background check to purchase a firearm. It has some of the strictest gun laws but in 2012, Mexico had 11, 309 gun murders compared to the United States that had 9,146 gun homicides.” Mexico has also enforced the regulation that only one certain kind of firearm can be purchased unlike the United States which provided an eclectic variety; yet Mexico is said to have 13.5 guns per 100 people in their own country. What do these statistics reveal? That even in countries whose government regulates the purchasing of firearms, the lengths of doing so, and the accessibility to its citizens