Role Of Assault Weapons In Mass Shootings
The right to bear arms has evolved into a danger to American society. American tradition is the biggest argument against creating restrictions on weapons with the potential to create a large causality total in mass shootings, such as assault weapons. The Washington Post (2016) has done several write ups on the topic of assault weapons, gun laws and mass shootings; this paper will reference several of those. Per Christopher Ingraham (2016) assault weapons such as semiautomatic weapons have played a large role in the death total in mass shootings considering, their popularity among mass shooters and the ability to purchase them easily. News sites CNN and CBS provide most of the specific information on the shootings and shooters that is used in