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    The document discusses arguments on both sides of the gun control debate. It argues that guns can be used for both protection and stopping potential mass shooters, and that banning guns will not solve violence since people will find other weapons. However, it also notes that gun deaths, including murders and suicides, increased significantly from 2019 to 2020 in the US. Both sides provide reasonable arguments, but the document concludes that reducing gun accessibility would likely decrease gun deaths while acknowledging that violence may still occur through other means due to overpopulation and human nature.

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    The document discusses arguments on both sides of the gun control debate. It argues that guns can be used for both protection and stopping potential mass shooters, and that banning guns will not solve violence since people will find other weapons. However, it also notes that gun deaths, including murders and suicides, increased significantly from 2019 to 2020 in the US. Both sides provide reasonable arguments, but the document concludes that reducing gun accessibility would likely decrease gun deaths while acknowledging that violence may still occur through other means due to overpopulation and human nature.

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    The document discusses arguments on both sides of the gun control debate. It argues that guns can be used for both protection and stopping potential mass shooters, and that banning guns will not solve violence since people will find other weapons. However, it also notes that gun deaths, including murders and suicides, increased significantly from 2019 to 2020 in the US. Both sides provide reasonable arguments, but the document concludes that reducing gun accessibility would likely decrease gun deaths while acknowledging that violence may still occur through other means due to overpopulation and human nature.

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    The document discusses arguments on both sides of the gun control debate. It argues that guns can be used for both protection and stopping potential mass shooters, and that banning guns will not solve violence since people will find other weapons. However, it also notes that gun deaths, including murders and suicides, increased significantly from 2019 to 2020 in the US. Both sides provide reasonable arguments, but the document concludes that reducing gun accessibility would likely decrease gun deaths while acknowledging that violence may still occur through other means due to overpopulation and human nature.

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    Guns have been used for murder, intimidation, inflicting injuries, and suicide but that does not

    mean that we should overlook the good that guns have done as well. Having a firearm means
    that you can protect yourself from those who want to harm you, or to protect others. A few
    months ago a man stopped a would-be mass shooter by killing him before anyone else could be
    killed by killing the shooter. We as a country shouldn’t try to solve a gun problem when it is not a
    gun problem, but a people problem ,or rather, a problem that arises with such a high population.

    According to https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn04304/ and


    https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2016/crime-in-the-u.s.-2016/tables/expanded-homicide-data-t
    able-4.xls, the amount of deaths and injuries caused by stabbings in the United Kingdom rival
    the amount of deaths and injuries caused by firearms in the United States. Something to take
    away from this is that if guns are banned people will resort to knives. If knives are banned they
    will resort to hammers. If hammers, axes, or any other possibly deadly tools are banned, then
    people will kill with their bare hands because we as a species are chaotic.

    One reason that I think guns shouldn't be heavily regulated is because almost all tyrannical
    governments start out by taking away the people’s ways to fight back
    (https://mises.org/wire/brief-history-repressive-regimes-and-their-gun-laws). A more recent
    example of this would be the Venezuelan government under “president” Maduro. Maduro took
    away guns from the citizens, but only gave back the guns of those who pledged their loyalty to
    him. Another example would be China. (https://www.loc.gov/law/help/firearms-control/china.php)
    In China you can only own a weapon if you are military, paramilitary, a police officer, or are part
    of a security detail that is protecting a property state of importance. And China is known to have
    a very oppressive government/ human rights don’t exist in the Chinese communist party.

    Next to support my argument would be the Texas church shooting. According to


    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50952443, the shooter was brought down by
    another churchgoer who had his conceal carry permit and his concealed pistol on him. This man
    shot and killed the shooter with one bullet and the shooter managed to only kill 2 people before
    anyone else could be killed. There were no reported injuries and a new law was introduced to
    let concealed carry permit owners bring their weapons into places of worship. According to
    https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/crime/article238867263.html the shooter got his
    weapon because the state of Texas does not require background checks for private sales of
    firearms. More could have been done to prevent this shooter from receiving a firearm, like
    needing a background check for private and public sales before receiving a firearm.

    The opposing viewpoint would argue: The number of killings with firearms has increased from
    2019 to 2020 according to https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/past-tolls with roughly half of
    them being suicides. The amount of suicides stayed roughly the same between the two years,
    but in 2020 the amount of murders increased by about 4,000 people. These numbers are
    concerning because that may mean that gun violence is going to be on the rise for the next
    couple of years which would obviously be bad. Another thing that they may argue is that if gun
    violence is a people problem, then why should guns be accessible to the problem. This
    argument does make sense, but if the problem did not have guns, then the problem would get
    different weapons or even just get the guns illegally.

    In conclusion, there are a lot of things that back up both sides of the argument on the topic of
    gun control.Those arguments include, but are not limited to, “Nearly all tyrannical governments
    start by taking away the people’s ways to fight back”, “If guns become less accessible to the
    able bodied, then only the police would be able to stop an active shooter”. And on the other
    side: “If guns become less accessible, then the deaths caused by guns will drop”, and “The
    suicide rate would drop if guns were either banned or less accessible because roughly half of
    gun deaths are suicides”. There is evidence to support many claims on both sides too, but in the
    end it doesn’t matter because the world is so overpopulated and people will continue to kill each
    other with, or without guns.

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