The Importance Of Gun Control

"We certainly need an assault weapons ban, but we need more than that. There are some 260 people every day who are injured or killed by gun violence, so it 's very important that we ban assault weapons, for starters, but there are other steps that need to be taken quickly. Local communities need to be able to regulate guns, as needed, to deal with their violence. So, we need to keep guns out of the hands of criminals. We need background checks, so that the mentally ill are not possessing and using guns. And we need to end the gun show loopholes, as well, because there 's far too much violence from guns, which is not needed,” stated Jill Stein (Should More Gun Control Laws Be Enacted?). Gun Control are laws that are used to control how guns

This issue will change society immensely because if we have the laws set into place, we can restrict the number of people who have it by issuing fingerprint scanners, background checks, and etc.

Admittedly, many would argue that there shouldn’t be gun control laws because its again the people’s rights. For Example, “According to the National Rifle Association (NRA), guns are used for self-defense 2.5 million times a year. [57] The police cannot protect everyone all of the time. 61% of men and 56% of women surveyed by Pew Research said that stricter gun laws would "make it more difficult for people to protect their homes and families." [58] Nelson Lund, JD, PhD, Professor at George Mason University School of Law, stated, "The right to self-defense and to the means of defending oneself is a basic natural right that grows out of the right to life" and "many [gun control laws] interfere with the ability of law-abiding citizens to defend themselves against violent criminals." [59] Constitutions in

In particular, CAP (Child Access Prevention) laws are touted primarily as a means of reducing accidental shootings by children, they also can be expected to prevent some intentional third-party shootings and suicides (McClurg). Similarly, 15-24-year-olds were most often the victims of unintentional gun deaths with 2,705 deaths between 1999 and 2014 (25.6% of total unintentional firearm deaths), and with 1999 having the most deaths at 251 (US Gun Deaths, 1999-2014). Overall, unintentional firearm deaths were down 28.9% from 1999 to 2014 (US Gun Deaths, 1999-2014). School shootings, such as the recent high-profile events in Chardon, Ohio; Sparks, Nevada, and Troutdale, Oregon, are usually committed by students of the school who are under the age of 18 (FBI 2002) (Sabia and Anderson). In fact, between 2012 and 2015, approximately 70 percent of shootings at K-12 schools were committed by minors (Everytown.org 2015a) (Sabia and Anderson). This information shows how easy these kids got the guns due to the family not having the guns in a locked place causing an unsafe environment for schools. Therefore, we should have gun control laws to prevent this so it can add an extra help in preventing it along with the CAP