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Why gun control laws don’t work
How do you feel Knowing your kids are not safe at school or if you are a student how do you feel that you know you are not safe at school. According to Aaron Bandler ”The Crime Research Prevention Center determined that since 1950, nearly 99 percent of mass public shootings have occurred in gun-free zones. The terror attack in Orlando, FL and the shooting that murdered singer Christina Grimmie in June also took place in gun free zones. The reason is obvious: deranged murderers want to be in a position to murder as many as possible, so they target areas where they 're least likely to find armed resistance, which happen to be gun-free zones”. This shows that gun free zones are targeted the most like schools which shows that gun laws don’t work because of the amount of mass shootings in these restricted zones. We have had to many shootings in gun free zones and we have to loosen up restrictions in these zones and increase security in these zones to combat the criminals that do their sick acts of terror. The background to my paper will be talking about the mass shootings to backup my claims I will use 4 examples of mass shootings that happened in gun free zones and 2 happened to be at schools where children study. The first place is a school named Sandy Hook elementary where in Newtown, Connecticut CNN claims “Adam Lanza, 20, guns down 20 children, ages six and seven, and six adults, school staff and faculty, before turning the gun on
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