Gun Control has been a hot topic for a long time. It Started in 1968 “House Resolution 17735, known as the Gun Control Act, was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on October 22, 1968, banning mail order sales of rifles and shotguns and prohibiting most felons, drug users and people found mentally incompetent from buying guns.”-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_Control_Act_of_1968
Modern-day gun control has been a jumbled mess. A lot of people uneducated on the subject keep using the word “assault Rifle” which is not a real thing. People keep saying “We need to ban assault rifles” which makes no sense as it is not a real thing. The whole wave of people wanting to ban rifles is dumb because most gun violence is done with handguns. Most of the left-leaning side of the spectrum listens to the loudest sound on the subject. They don't like to have their own facts they like to hear other people's “facts”. They like to say that” In 2017 39,773 people died from gun deaths” This is a type of fear-mongering. Now this number is high but it doesn't take out Suicide and gun accidents. So uninformed people hear the number 39,773 and think is all homicide or mass shootings. “Of the nearly 40,000 who died by firearms in 2017, 23,854 people, or 60%, committed suicide using a gun.”-http://time.com/5479993/gun-deaths-us-cdc/
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Only about 37% of deaths were homicides due to guns. So suicides are a more pressing issue than gun homicides. Everyone talks about lives lost because of guns but what about lives saved?
As to defensives uses of guns, the CDC report said, 'Studies that directly assessed the effect of actual defensive uses of guns (i.e., incidents in which a gun was 'used' by the crime victim in the sense of attacking or threatening an offender) have found consistently lower injury rates among gun-using crime victims compared with victims who used other self-protective strategies. ... Almost all national survey estimates indicate that defensive gun uses by victims are at least as common as offensive uses by criminals, with estimates of annual uses ranging from about 500,000 to more than 3 million per year, in the context of about 300,000 violent crimes involving firearms in 2008.' -https://www.investors.com/politics/columnists/how-many-lives-are-saved-by-guns-and-why-dont-gun-controllers-care/
So 500,000 to 3 million lives were saved because of firearms compared to the 39,773 lost by guns is a dumb argument. Guns nowadays get a bad name, many more lives are saved because of guns than are lost. Banning guns is not the answer, more gun control is not the answer. A more intense background check is a got option to slightly lower gun violence. But criminals get guns illegally so more background checks aren't going to stop gun violence. So what's the answer? There is no right and wrong answer there's not a lot we can do. In my opinion, we need better technology to track guns but until then there's not a lot we can do.
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