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Gun Control A child lies on his parents' bedroom floor with a gunshot wound in his chest. His best friend stands over him, gaping. The nine-year-old boy's eyes dart from the blood oozing from his friend, to his own shaking index finger, still clutched on the trigger of the gun. It was not supposed to happen this way. The gun was not supposed to be loaded. They should not have been snooping in the first …

…which one mentally unstable man killed thirty-five people. People are getting murdered on a daily basis, as over 40,000 people are killed by guns every year. Another way for the people of this country to lower crime rates is to begin by creating tighter family values and encouraging children to learn other ways, besides crime, to be successful in life. We need to take charge and realize that it does not need to be this way.