“In 2010, 31,076 Americans died in homicides, suicides and unintentional shootings. This is the equivalent of more than 85 deaths each day and more than three deaths each hour” ("Statistics on Gun Deaths & Injuries.") Guns have a major impact in the world today. People tend to think that guns are the reasons for the many deaths, which is not true. Guns do not kill people, only people kill people. Some people like to believe that you can stop deaths involving guns, by making gun control laws stricter. Stricter gun control laws will not reduce crime any better than the current gun control laws.
Undoubtedly, stricter gun control laws will not reduce crime because criminals will get their hands on guns either way. Criminals will use many ways to obtain illegal firearms. According to a study from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, they found many cases where two people will go to a gun store, one will pick out a gun, and the other will use his identification to buy the gun (Dan Noyes online). Ways like this shows that getting stricter gun laws will have no effect if criminals could
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The Gun-Free School Zones Act (GFSZA) prohibits any person from knowingly possessing a firearm that has moved in or otherwise affects interstate or foreign commerce at a place the individual knows, or has reasonable cause to believe, is a school zone (“Federal Law on Guns in School” online). Statistics have shown that while law-abiding citizens follow the law, criminals tend to not. According to a website, every public mass shooting in the USA since 1950 has taken place where citizens are banned from carrying guns (“Guns in America” online). If the government had not made such a strict gun control law, there possibly could have been a law-abiding citizen that could have had a legal firearm to protect the innocent people from the