Argumentative Essay In order to control crime, should all guns be banned?

In order to control crime, all guns should be banned
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In order to control crime, all guns should be banned
On May 1, 2020, a security guard who was working at a Michigan Family Dollar store was shot dead after he asked a customer to put on a facemask before accessing the store. Barely six days later, a hungry woman walked into a McDonald’s outlet in Oklahama and after being informed that the dining area was closed due to COVID-19, she took out her gun and shot three employees of the food joint. These are not just statists but human life being treated like that of animals, pointing to the ever-rising cases of gun violence in the United States. The Pew Research Center reports that in 2017 alone, there were 39,773 deaths from gun-related injuries. Out of that figure, 23,854 were suicide cases while 37% were murders (14,542). The remainder were unintentional (486), involved law enforcement (553) or had undetermined circumstances (338) (Gramlich, 2019). According to Amnesty International, gun violence is a global human rights issue, threatening the right to life. The organization has it that at least 500 people around the world die on a daily basis due to violence committed out of firearms. With these scary figures its time to ban civilian ownership of guns across the US.
To reduce cases of mass shootings in the US, there is an urgent need to ban civilian ownership of guns. Although there is no clear definition of mass shooting, the Federal bureau of Investigations defines it as “a number of murders (three or more) occurring during the same incident, with no distinctive time period between murder” (FBI 2008). On December 14, 2012, 20-year-old Adam Lanza drove to Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Connecticut and shot 26 people including 20 children and six staff members at the institution. Before driving to the school, the young man had shot his mother dead and after the shooting at the institution he committed suicide by shooting himself on the head (The Associated Press, 2012). In October 27, 2017, a man identified as Stephen Paddock shot and killed 59 people who were attending a country music festival at a hotel in Las Vegas. At least 500 people were left nursing injuries in the rapid-fire barrage from the gunman who was stationed at a room in Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino from where he rained bullets to the crowd of over 22,000 revelers. The 64-year-old’s heinous act was one of the worst in modern American history. Since January up to November 2020, 482 people were killed in incidences of mass shootings with over 2451 left nursing wounds. What actions have other countries taken to prevent such cases from happening? According to the Lawyer Monthly, in 1996, a lone-shooter rained bullets on school children killing 16 of them and one teacher in Dunblane, United Kingdom. Following the incident, the government imposed very strict background checks on those who were allowed to own guns. What followed later was a total ban on all private gun ownership. Since 1996, the country has only reported one case of mass shooting. In the same year, on April 28, one Martin Bryant opened gunfire at Port Arthur, Tasmania, in Australia killing at least 35 people. Bryant was ...