Does Gun Control Really Work?

     If your like me, and your sitting down one night watching the news you might hear about the appalling gun violence going on in places like Chicago or Maryland. When I hear this I wonder why there isn't more gun control in those states. So I took the liberty to do some research and tried to find out what the heck is going on, why isn't more being done. This year alone in Chicago the amount of people shot and killed is 656, and the total number of homicides is 732. On average a person is shot every two hours in Chicago.

     So why do all these people have guns? Well when conducting my research I found that according to http://gunlawscorecard.org/ Illinois has a score of a B+ how can that be when a person is shot every two hours in Chicago alone. Well for one the website bases it off of policy alone but it just shows that the more control there is the more crime there. Another state Maryland is given an A- gun control rating, but according to http://247wallst.com/special-report/2016/01/12/the-10-most-dangerous-states/ Maryland is the 10th most dangerous state in the union. According to the same source gunlawscorecard, Texas has a rating of an F-, but it is one of the safest states according to that same source. This to me proves that gun control doesn't really work. So if we had to decide we would side with less gun regulation, we are not saying give everyone a gun that wants one. We believe that if you are under criminal investigation you should not get a gun. There should be background checks to buy firearms, and if you are to dangerous to fly on a plane you should not be allowed to own a gun.

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