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The Problem Of Gun Control

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One of the largest issues being discussed today is how can we effectively control guns and limit, or eliminate, gun violence. There is a very large amount of solutions out there, some that are good and some that are not so good. The solutions I have found and will discuss in this paper have been proposed by Todd Miller of Huffington Post, Evan DeFilipps of Washington Post, and Matthew DesChamps of Stamford Advocate. The solutions these authors have proposed just do not solve this issue in the right way, or without creating another issue. After discussing why their proposals will not get the job done, I will offer my solution. I believe that my solution to gun control is the most effective way to control and limit gun related violence while still protecting the rights given by the 2nd Amendment. Trying to control guns really boils down to one basic problem, which is to take guns out of the hands of people who are not fit to have them. If the mentally unstable people who commit these mass shootings do not have those guns in the first place, the crime does not get committed and those lives get spared. Todd Miller’s article “The 97 Percent Solution to Gun Violence in America” proposes a solution geared towards cutting down on people acquiring guns in illegal ways. Miller’s solution is to hold the owner of the gun used to commit the crime accountable. Miller thinks that it will give people a larger incentive to take better care of their guns, as well as make

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