Gun Control Research Papers

In the United States of America, one of the biggest controversial topics is gun control and how much control is too much control. The fact of the matter is that as a nation the U.S. has the highest death by gun rate among many industrial countries. In Mallory Simon’s article she writes the article through many different perspectives to show how many different people’s lives can be affected by one simple gunshot. In the beginning she writes through an Indian man’s, Amardeep Kaleka’s, viewpoint who has just watched his father be shot and killed on their Sikh temple floor along with five other victims who fell to the gun fire. In her article Simon’s quotes what Amardeep saw saying, “Satwant Singh Kaleka had been shot five times while wrestling
You cn’t continue to allow violence like this to happen haphazardly at a church, at a school, any place. (Kaleka)”, and once time passes, the rest of the country forgets about the tragedies and we think it’ll never happen again, The Sandy Hook Massacre occurs. That’s the thing with this so called “gun control”, we think we have everything under control until one person decides to take it upon themselves to end the lives of countless others. In one article Lisa Long write titled, I Am Adam Lanza’s Mother, she talks about the main issue in gun control is mental health issues and people with mental health issues being able to access these high-grade military weapons without any prior knowledge of or training with these said weapons. When accessible these things turn from just deadly to likely disastrous, and this just goes to show that actions need to be
For example, many people use shotguns and handguns on a daily basis for real life use such as hunting or range practice or for self- defense, but there is truly no need other than recreational use for civilians to have access to military grade weapons like Ak-47’s or other assault rifles. Yet, over 3.5 to 4 million people privately own many different types of assault weapons. In many of the different article’s in our Elements of an Argument book author’s support their claim on why gun- control in the U.S. needs to be stricter, and even the President has said that we need to have more thorough background checks, with more restrictions against people with mental health issues. Also, civilians don’t necessarily need to have access to military grade