ULTIMATE PURPOSE: Due to the enormous amount of death, injury, emotional and psychological harm caused by gun violence and accidental firearm discharge; the united states needs stricter gun laws. The goal is to mitigate unsafe usage and purchases of weapons, not infringe on gun owners’ rights.
PROPOSITION:
With the abundance of guns in our society, we need a combination of laws, procedures, education and social standards to mitigate further risks and possible causes of future mass shootings.
POSSIBLE ISSUES: 1 - Congress has blocked federal money from being used for basic research on gun violence and its effect on public health.
2 - All efforts to lift this restriction have been repeatedly rejected by Republicans who seem to believe that
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Mental health evaluations need to be created.
Countries with restrictive gun control laws have lower gun homicide and suicide rates than the United States.
According to a Mar. 2016 study, gun homicide rates in the United States were 25.3 times higher and gun suicides were 8 times higher in 2010 than in other populous, high-income countries. [3]
More gun control laws would reduce gun deaths.
David Frum, Daily Beast and CNN contributor, stated, "American children under age 15 were nine times more likely to die of a gun accident than children in other advanced wealthy countries… About 200 Americans go to emergency rooms every day with gunshot wounds." [1]
There were 464,033 total gun deaths between 1999 and 2013: 270,237 suicides; 174,773 homicides; and 9,983 unintentional deaths. Guns were the leading cause of death by homicide and by suicide.
Guns are rarely used in self-defense.
Of the 29,618,300 violent crimes committed between 2007 and 2011, 0.79% of victims (235,700) protected themselves with a threat of use or use of a firearm, the least-employed protective behavior.