Friday, February 29, 2008

The need for gun control

Gun control is need right now to me because if you watch the news everyday somebody gets shooting some where. And people die because of the none gun control that we have. And people's family's suffer and lose another kid one. Because of the none control this is something we seriously need to help america's young one's feel safe.
Approximately 60 percent of all murder victims in the United States in 1989 (about 12,000 people) were killed with firearms. According to estimates, firearm attacks injured another 70,000 victims, some of whom were left permanently disabled. In 1985, the cost of shootings--either by others, through self-inflicted wounds, or in accidents--was estimated to be more than $14 billion nationwide for medical care, long-term disability, and premature death. (Editor's note: the number of gun victims has increased since 1989 to 15,456 gun homicides in 1994. In robberies and assaults, victims are far more likely to die when the perpetrator is armed with a gun than when he or she has another weapon or is unarmed.
These are my reasons why guns should be controlled and stop some of the killings in america. A study of 743 gunshot deaths by Dr. Arthur Kellermann and Dr. Donald Reay published in The New England Journal of Medicine found that 84% of these homicides occurred during altercations in the home.