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Introduction

The issues regarding causes of gun violence have been a long standing debate for legislators and civil society groups in the United States Currently , America is one of the countries with the greatest rate of gun violence . It ranks first among its industrial peers in terms of crimes committed with the use of guns . There have been 220 violent events in American schools resulting in 253 deaths from 1994 - 1999 . Among these cases , 74 .5 involved the use of firearms with handguns causing almost 60 of death toll (Kennard 152 p

These statistics are manifested in some of the most gruesome crimes in the United States the Columbine high school shootings in 1999 where students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold murdered 12 of their classmates and teacher and injured 24 other people before committing suicide themselves (CNN Online May 16 , 2000 , the Virginia Tech Massacre left thirty-three dead including the killer who was a South Korean student named Cho (CNN Online April 17 , 2000 . These horrific manifestations prove one thing : That America is a violent nation plagued by the scourge of gun violence

This brings to mind the question of whether or not America 's lax policies in gun control are significant contributing factors to murder from gun violence . Is there truly an underlying relationship between gun sales and gun violence ? Or should we blame something else for our country 's morbid history with guns ? This takes the stand that stricter gun control laws is not the answer to America 's problems regarding gun violence . The logos of this is divided into two sections , the first disproving gun control policies as the culprit of gun violence and the second pointing out just what the true cause of our country 's gruesome current history with guns is

Why not stricter gun control

The year 2000 saw about 25 of Americans owning guns . At the same time England had 33 of its people owning guns while France had 32 (Morrie et . al . 21 . In fact , if we examine summary of gun ownership of the respective populations in several industrialized countries , you would observe two things . First , the numbers are very near one another indicating that there might not be a significant difference among them Second , even if there is a significant difference , the United States percentage falls below several other countries (Morrie et . al . 27 . This means that statistically , the United States is hardly the country in the world with the most relaxed gun control policies with respect to ownership . Several other first world countries have similar if not more relaxed policies with respect t o their citizens owning guns

One would have to ask , perhaps there is some other policy that is lax in the United States which is a lot stricter in other countries . This would lead us to examine whether it is much easier to get ammunition in the United States than in other countries , but if we take a look at the percentage of stores in...