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Vol.1, Issue 47, September 2022 ELITE

Gun Control in the USA:

Will it ever happen?

The second amendment of the United Reem Omran, Fourth Year - Economics
States' constitution is by far one of the reem.omran2019@feps.edu.eg
most disputed ones to ever exist, since per capita number of weapons in the
it constitutionally protects gun world is found in the United States,

possessions, and it goes as follows: whereas there are 120.5 guns for every
"A well-regulated Militia, being 100 residents. And that's only taking
necessary to the security of a free into account the "legal" gun purchases,

State, the right of the people to keep as the illegal market of guns is a whole
and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." other crisis of its own.
Although that amendment was During the last decade, the United
necessarily put in place in order to States have witnessed mass shootings

ensure public safety, it has certainly like never before, especially ones
backfired. In this age and day, the targeting schools; For instance, 288
United States has the highest homicide- school shooting took place in the

by-firearm rate among developed period between 2009 and 2018, with 47
countries. The situation is so bad that, incidents just in 2018 alone.
in fact, the mass shootings are so
common that the great majority of
them go unreported by major media

sources; The ones that just so happen
to be significant or horrible enough
make the final cut.

The legal age for a US citizen to
purchase a gun ranges between 18 and
21 across the different states, making it
Back quite accessible for the vast majority.
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Accordingly, to a recent study carried
To FEPS out in 2021 found that the biggest 17
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