gun control

Due to mass murders over the past few years there have been a lot of restrictions put on the use of guns. This event has affected the economy both in a positive and negative way. It has affected the employment of the nation’s resources, such as labor, land and capital. You will also see the impact that it has had on the price inflation rates and the economic growth.

There were two mass murder cases that eloped that helped put a cap on what guns can be purchased and owned in a home legally and the amount of bullets that a person may buy and have in their home. The first mass murder took place in Colorado, at the première of the new batman movie. He ended up killing 12 people and wounding 58 others. The second event was the mass murder at Sandy Hook elementary, killing 26 people. (http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2012/12/us/sandy-hook-victims/ and http://www.cbsnews.com/news/gun-control-debate-returns-after-colorado-shooting/)

Stricter gun control laws impacted a lot of people. It impacted hunters, and for people who want a gun in their house to feel secure and safe. “In reaction to both Sandy Hook and a mass-shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, the year prior, the Democrat-led state legislature in Colorado passed laws requiring universal background checks and limiting the size of ammunition magazines to 15 rounds. Democrat Governor John Hickenlooper signed the bills into law, and both were enacted in July.” (http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/12/13/Colorado-Just-tightened-gun-control-laws)

After the two events that led to killing about forty people in total, including twenty kids from Sandy Hook elementary, everyone was worried about not being able to own a gun or the stricter rules that would be ...

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...lso, the amount of jobs that were offered, for the need to expand manufacturers helped to decrease the amount of unemployment. These are all factors that I believe can help with our society and to possibly make it better.

Works Cited

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/12/13/Colorado-Just-tightened-gun-control-laws http://www.cbsnews.com/news/gun-control-debate-returns-after-colorado-shooting/ http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2012/12/us/sandy-hook-victims/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/frankminiter/2013/10/20/is-the-obama-administration-the-cause-of-gun-ammunition-shortages/3/ http://www.nationaljournal.com/congress/supporters-of-stricter-gun-laws-look-back-on-2013-in-despair-20131215 http://www.nssf.org/Impact/ http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2013/11/has-the-fed-stabilized-the-price-level/

http://www.tufts.edu/alumni/magazine/fall2013/features/up-in-arms.html