If you could choose between saving many adult's and children's lives and having to wait longer when buying a gun, or allowing many adult's and children's lives to be cruelly taken, but be able to get home faster, What would you choose? There are many reasons that there should be tighter restrictions on guns. These reasons include that people with mental illnesses should not be able to buy a gun due to potential violence, and that guns are way too easy for criminals to get. This has been a long and fervently debated issue, but if you look at the facts it is easy to see that there needs to be tighter restrictions on guns.
There have been many incidents involving persons with mental illnesses using guns on innocent people
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After she did this she wrote multiple letters to the president expressing great remorse and explaining that she should not have been able to purchase a gun due to her unstable mental state. Mental illness is more common than you would think. According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), 1 in 4 adults experience a mental illness. A study by Fusion …show more content…
Currently, only 18 states have a required background check for at least some gun transactions. Many criminals know that they can get a gun from a private dealer at a gun show or online because private dealers are not required to give background checks. David Kennedy, the director of the Center for Crime Prevention and Control at John Jay College said that "A lot of people don't understand that this is the way the world works. It means that people who everybody agrees shouldn't get guns have little trouble getting guns." A survey of gun offense criminals showed that an alarming number of 96.1% of those criminals who were ineligible to buy guns at the time of the crime obtained guns from private dealers. It is common sense that there should be a law in every state requiring background checks to be conducted before every gun transaction. Also, Kennedy said that "Fixing this would be one of the single most important things we could do to address overall gun