How would you feel if you woke up one morning to the news that your best friend was shot and killed while out partying last night? Or, as a parent, your child didn’t come home from school? This is the shocking reality for too many Americans. In 2017 alone, there were over 300 shootings across the nation, resulting in almost 12 000 deaths, more than 13 000 injuries, and an unmeasurable amount of people in sorrow. With more gun control in America, we can get rid of the outdated laws surrounding firearm usage and ownership, protect the future of the country, and enhance safety in communities. Good morning/afternoon Mr. Beauregard and 9C. With thousands of deaths each year solely from guns, doesn’t that tell you anything? The necessity of gun control …show more content…
New York Times states that mentally ill, young and uneducated gun users are more dangerous to themselves and others than a healthy, educated adult would be. Depression, schizophrenia and personality disorders are just a sample of the mental illnesses that may push someone to use guns violently. With more legislation on more intensive background checks, America would be more knowledgeable on the issues. At last, breaking down on the gun problem would immensely minimize the number of mass shootings America sees. For example, Australia had its worst mass shooting in 1996, after having at least thirteen across the nation in the twenty years before. After immediately implementing gun control, they haven’t had one since. Alternatively, 1 624 mass shootings just in the past five years have occurred in America, almost 300 of those being in the “safe” schools. Being only two months into 2018, there have been about thirty mass shootings, eighteen of which were in schools, resulting in over 1 500 deaths. Around thirty people daily this year, dead because Republicans have been rejecting gun control laws for years. Opening the eyes of the American government that their “thoughts and prayers” aren’t going to stop kids from dying. A change will stop kids being