Tighten the Trigger
Help support tighter gun control laws.
Gun violence is responsible for many deaths/injuries in the US.
Handguns kill thousands of people each year in homicides, accidental shootings, and robberies, (O'Donnell). We lose an estimated of about 30,000 people die each year from firearms. These weapons also account for 70,000 injures, (Collazo).
- An Average of 87 deaths per day, (Everitt)
There have been too many Gun-Free Zone shootings.
In the past 17 years there have been more than seven mass shootings in America. Most of these shootings were planned and took place in gun free zones. The most sickening part of it, is that many children have died from this violence. There are few appropriate places for guns, but schools are not one of those, other than SRO's. Tragedies like the Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting (2012), and the Columbine High School Shooting (1999), were horrific and saddening, (Everitt).
Some of the shooters
Nidal Hassan, Fort Hood Shooting 2009
Nidal Hassan entered the Fort Hood Military Administration Office killing thirteen people and injuring thirty. He carried sixteen magazines with over four hundred twenty rounds. This was an act of Jihadism.
Robert Dear, Planned Parenthood Shooting 2015
Robert Dear attacked a Planned Parenthood Clinic in Denver, Colorado. He committed this deadly crime because he was against abortion. Dear claims he is "a warrior for the babies".
Adam Lanza, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting 2012
On December 7, 2012 Adam Lanza walked in to Sandy Hook Elementary with three guns. He killed twenty-one people including himself, and his mother who bought him the guns. It is reported that Lanza was mentally ill.
Help Lessen the Violence
More Gun Control Laws Will Lead to Fewer Suicides
Between 1999 and 2013 there were over 270,237 firearm suicides in the U.S. That is an average of 52% of all suicides. The International Review of Law and Economics published and article saying when gun ownership went down, so did the number of suicides. It was also said that a person is least likely to kill themselves with poison or a knife, when a gun is not available, (Gun Control)