What happened ?
Early Sunday morning on the 12th of June, right around last call, a gunman walked into a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, and opened fire with an assault rifle and handgun, killing 49 people and injuring 53. The suspect, 29-year-old Omar Mateen, allegedly was upset about seeing two men kissing in Miami, and his father said that might be related to the attack. Mateen also claimed loyalty to the Islamic State during the attack, according to various news outlets.
The violence marked the deadliest mass shooting in American history, and has reignited the debate about gun control.
In the first six months of 2016, 58 people have died in mass shootings across the United States, with the majority of those casualties occurring during the Orlando massacre.
The United States has 88.8 guns per 100 people, or about 270,000,000 guns, which is the highest total and per capita number in the world. 22% of Americans own one or more guns (35% of men and 12% of women).
This is what brings us to the topic of discussion, "Should More Gun Control Laws Be Enacted in the US?"
PROS:
CONS:
Early Sunday morning on the 12th of June, right around last call, a gunman walked into a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, and opened fire with an assault rifle and handgun, killing 49 people and injuring 53. The suspect, 29-year-old Omar Mateen, allegedly was upset about seeing two men kissing in Miami, and his father said that might be related to the attack. Mateen also claimed loyalty to the Islamic State during the attack, according to various news outlets.
The violence marked the deadliest mass shooting in American history, and has reignited the debate about gun control.
In the first six months of 2016, 58 people have died in mass shootings across the United States, with the majority of those casualties occurring during the Orlando massacre.
The United States has 88.8 guns per 100 people, or about 270,000,000 guns, which is the highest total and per capita number in the world. 22% of Americans own one or more guns (35% of men and 12% of women).
This is what brings us to the topic of discussion, "Should More Gun Control Laws Be Enacted in the US?"
PROS:
- The Second Amendment is not an unlimited right to own guns.
- More gun control laws would reduce gun deaths.
- High-capacity magazines should be banned because they too often turn murder into mass murder.
- More gun control laws are needed to protect women from domestic abusers and stalkers.
CONS:
- The Second Amendment of the US Constitution protects individual gun ownership.
- Gun control laws do not deter crime; gun ownership deters crime.
- Gun control laws infringe upon the right to self-defense and deny people a sense of safety.
- Gun control laws, especially those that try to ban "assault weapons," infringe upon the right to own guns for hunting and sport.