Gun Control And Covering The Shot Hole - 1626 Words

Elijah Henson A.Vana ENG 1A April 17, 2016 â€Å"Gun Control, and Covering the Shot Hole† Today in the present times of the United States, we have a problem concerning firearms and the misuse of them. We have guns with bodies on them being traded and sold across the U.S and used for criminal activities, and we have too much access in gun stores to heavy capacity magazines, and automatic assault rifles. â€Å"Gun Control† is the term that identifies the problems we have with firearms today, and it tries to take those problems and dim them down by limiting citizens to what they can purchase from these stores. Gun control is a term that’s based on many different limitations. This term limits the type of guns that can be purchased and sold and who can†¦show more content†¦Ã¢â‚¬Å"The United States of America has one of the most highest homicide rates than just about any other developed country around the world, and it also has much more civilian ownership.† (Verbruggen). This is a good thing tha t we have freedom to have our firearms and protect ourselves from danger, however this can also be bad because letting citizens have so much freedom to buy firearms can lead to shootings in which they have. Say a person who has not committed any crimes yet, goes into an ammunition and firearms store, and purchases an automatic assault rifle with a high capacity magazine. If that person happens to have some dark thoughts, people can end up losing their life because we have too much freedom involving the purchasing of these rifles and other premium guns. However, it is important to look into why these mass shootings do occur. â€Å"Not only is there no correlation between gun ownership and overall homicide within a state, but there is a strong correlation between gun homicide and non-gun homicide suggesting that they spring from similar causes, and that some states are simply more violent than others.† (Verbruggen) This shows that with some of the cases we have involving deaths , not all of them come with being mass shootings. It is not hard for a person to grab a regular pistol and go out shooting innocent civilians, however, it is less likely that they will kill as many people as they can with an automatic assault rifle. As an overlooker of gun