I talked about gun violence with my mom and this is what we came up with:
We both think that the world would be safer without guns but there are problems with not having them in the world like the armed forces wouldn’t be able to protect our country and police wouldn’t be able to protect cities. Maybe there should be stricter laws around gun purchases because that would limit the number of people who have access.
The problem with this is people have the right to bear arms in the Constitution so we’d have to change the Constitution for the country to have the same gun law throughout. Right now, each state gets to make up its own laws. While New York City has a law that you have to have a permit to own a gun, lots of places don’t like Alabama and Mississippi. We looked at a website that said 1 in 3 people know someone who has been killed by a gun.
