Another issue that was talked in great detail about was gun control. Gun control in this book began with a story of the Killeen shooting in Texas. A man carrying a Glock 17 killed 21 people. After this killing everyone started to rethink their own gun control ideology. Many people were pushing at this time for magazine capacity laws and other laws that banned so called "assault weapons". A Democratic senator from texas specifically from the county where the shooting took place had this to say, "the killer could not have had seventeen bullets in each clip, and we could have perhaps saved lives." (109) Many believe that with stricter gun laws revolving around magazine capacity and banning "assault weapons" would lessen the damage of many violent crimes. But the reality is no matter how many gun laws are put into effect none of them will be followed by the criminals who are taking the lives of the innocent. The criminals will always find ways to get around laws by obtaining guns illegally. A study from the FBI's Uniform Crime Report stated that of all the violent gun crimes that had taken place in 2010, 80% of them were illegally obtained. For this reason alone we should be realizing that stricter gun laws only apply to those who legally carry and use their firearms in legal ways. The only thing that stricter gun control does is disarm the general public from defending themselves in a lethal confrontation.
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