There are many suicides in America each year. More lives are taken each year by guns involving suicides than homicides. 18,562 suicides and 18,35

0 homicides were reported in 1991. Thousands of suicides occur each year, and guns cause roughly 67 percent. It is believed that using a gun is the fastest, easiest, and most successful way for someone to kill themselves. It is estimated that for every suicide, there are twenty attempted suicides. This shows that if more people had guns, more of the attempted suicides would be successful.

In addition to suicides, there are also many accidents cause by guns in America. "In 70% of gun accidents, the shooter was a boy between the age of ten and fourteen."(Strahinich, p.66) "Every day a child is killed by an accident at home."(Strahinich, p.67) Two ideas of gun control that would help this problem are that the owner of a gun should be required to have taken certain classes on gun use a

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