The Negative Consequences Of Gun Control
The first mass shooting was in Austin, Texas in 1966 by Charles Whitman at the University of Texas. He snipped fourteen people and wounded thirty-two others in less than ninety minutes. Students used their weapons from their vehicles and helped police take him down. Democratic parties are scared to bring up the topic of gun control because they fear that they will lose votes to the people that do not want gun control. Gun laws are intended to limit the amount of guns in an area and lower crime rates, but people with mental problems do not follow those rules. They set their minds on killing people and that is what they do. If gun control became stricter, then there would still be gun violence because criminals would be armed making unarmed citizens easy targets. No one can stop them because they are set on killing no matter what. They do not have to suffer the consequences of killing the people they do because most of them kill themselves when they are about to get caught or after they finish what they planned to do.
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Prohibition never stopped the production and transportation of alcohol, it just made it a challenge and that's pretty much what gun control is doing for the criminals. Even in gun free zones like Virginia tech guns still show up here and there. Criminals don't have to use guns to commit murder, they can use a knife or a grenade or nuclear weapons but the government is only looking at guns because they are used the most often because they make it easier to commit a murder or a robbery. Some people think that if more people in the world had guns there would be less violence because the criminals would be scared to mess with someone because they don't know who has a gun that they will use against them and who doesn't have a
Prohibition never stopped the production and transportation of alcohol, it just made it a challenge and that's pretty much what gun control is doing for the criminals. Even in gun free zones like Virginia tech guns still show up here and there. Criminals don't have to use guns to commit murder, they can use a knife or a grenade or nuclear weapons but the government is only looking at guns because they are used the most often because they make it easier to commit a murder or a robbery. Some people think that if more people in the world had guns there would be less violence because the criminals would be scared to mess with someone because they don't know who has a gun that they will use against them and who doesn't have a