Gun Violence and Gun Laws

Gun violence has recently become an issue of the United States as more and more tragedies have arisen with relation to gun use. United States are among the top armed nations around the world, and roughly 270 million guns are held by US civilians (Brussel). With such a mass number of guns, it could become unpredictable without proper gun control. As an example, one of the most tragic events was brought upon the nation on December 14 2012, twenty children and six staff members were killed by a single man at Sandy Hook Elementary school. New York passed the Ammunition and Firearms enforcement act of 2013 becoming the first state to respond to the tragedy in Newton, Connecticut (Rosebrugh). Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who signed it into laws now requires gun licenses to be renewed every five years and background checks on all gun sales which makes New York one of the most challenging place to obtain a gun. The recent bill passed by New York should be a model for the Federal Law because strict gun laws could protect innocent lives from being taken away by groups of people such as criminals, or those who are mentally unstable; better gun enforcement and stronger gun laws are both needed to reduce gun violence.

New York enforced gun laws to provide better safety for their people. After the tragedy in Sandy Hook Elementary school, New York was the first state to change its law in response to the mass shooting (Kaplan). The law broadens the ban on assault weapons to semiautomatic weapon, reduces the size of gun magazine to seven rounds from ten, and requires background checks for all gun sales. By banning semiautomatic weapons and reduce its magazine to seven from ten, is going prevent mass shooting like Connecticut elementary school from happeni...

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