Stricter Gun Control To Prevent Hate Crimes

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I became interested in this topic when I heard about the mass shooting in Las Vegas at the Jason Aldean concert. Lately I feel like all we hear about in the news is hate crimes in the United States. I didn’t really understand what gun control was until I did all this research. Also, I didn’t know that the United States was one of the highest countries in the world with the most gun homicides. According to Marriam-Webster, gun control is regulation of the selling, owning, and use of guns. People are arguing that we should have stricter gun control to prevent gun homicides. While other people are arguing that we should protect the Second Amendment. “The Second Amendment of the US Constitution reads, “A well regulated militia being necessary
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