Essay On Gun Violence In America

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Opposing the Dark Side within America.
As Americans, we currently have no measures toward controlling our “force”. The only difference between the figurative world of “Star Wars” and this world is how we choose to learn about and use this power. Consistently, we have created stigmas between what should be done about gun rights and how that affects our constitutional rights. Due to our continual refusal to improve upon our limitations toward gun usage, we should limit guns as a health issue, not a political one. If we do so then we could eliminate restraints that stop us from saving thousands of firearm victims each year.
Gun rights have been a political and social debacle continually brought up during this election year. With many different politicians supporting the constitutional right to bear arms such as Rand Paul who even stated that ‘Everybody’s for the second amendment,’ at conservative conference that coincided with Obama’s speech denouncing US gun violence. (Siddiqui and Dan, 1) Yet, to understand why guns are such an issue in our society we have to realize three different
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Not to mention the fact that the firearms and ammunition industry generates sizeable tax revenues. In the United States the industry and its employees pay $5.8 billion in taxes, including property, income, and sales-based levies (NSSF, 1). It’s obvious that we cannot stop gun creation yet, politicians should be able to discuss increasing gun restrictions for buyers and sellers. According to PBS’s Frontline, the National Rifle Association spent nearly $28 million in 2014 opposing gun control. By doing so, this association has created an even greater rift in American ideals and proposals to fix continual gun violence in our society. Instead of influencing inaction the National Rifle Association could be fixing negative perceptions of gun ownership which would inevitably increase their