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13,000 Persons were killed this year alone, yet this is why the US will not control guns

The Gun Violence Archive of 2017 shows that 13,158 persons have died from gun related shootings in the United States.

Despite these losses, there have been more mass shootings, attacks and suicides in the United States in 2017.

The US is exceptional as regards guns in that it is among the few countries where the right to bear arms is constitutionally protected.

Among developed Nations, the US is seen as the most prone to gun related incidence, due to easy access to firearms by Americans.

Whenever a mass shooting occurs, supporters of gun rights often argue that it is inappropriate to bring up political debates about gun control, especially in the aftermath of a tragedy.

Former Louisiana Governor, Bobby Jindal, a strong supporter of gun rights criticised former President, Barack Obama for ‘trying to score a cheap political point’, when the latter talked about gun control, after a mass shooting in Charleston, South Carolina.

Studies show that States, Cities and Countries with tighter gun control laws have fewer gun-related deaths.

According to Pew Research Centre Surveys, Americans have shifted from supporting gun control measures to greater support of protecting the right of Americans to own guns.

In February 2017, Donald Trump signed a bill allowing mentally ill individuals to purchase guns.

Meanwhile, Donald Trump has said the recent Texas shooting which took 26 lives, and wounded many others, ‘was caused by mental health problem and not an issue with gun laws in the US’.

In his book ‘The America We Deserve’, he wrote that Republicans refused even ‘limited restrictions on guns’ adding that they ‘walk the National Rifle Association of America’, which advocates for gun rights.

In 2012, Trump supported President Barack Obama’s remarks in Connecticut, about tighter gun control after the Sandy Hook shooting.

He however contradicted himself in 2015, when he said at a campaign in Iowa that more guns could stop mass shootings, stating that if more people carried firearms, they could have stopped the shootings that happened in Paris and California earlier that year.

In 2016, he met the National Rifle Association officials, in talks about a proposal for gun ban for those on the ‘no-fly list’ and Terrorist watch list.

Trump also argued in a campaign rally in Texas that the mass shooting in Orlando would have been less deadly if the people (guards and employees), in the Pulse Night Club were able to shoot back.

In the deadliest Las Vegas attack, Trump said “we’ll be talking about gun laws as the time goes by”.

The right to keep and bear arms is protected by the second amendment of the United States constitution which states that “A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed”.

Meanwhile, Australian researchers have stated that the rate of suicide dropped dramatically after the Australian Government set up a gun buyback program, where over 650,000 guns were purchased from gun owners. This act by the Government reduced the number of firearms in the Country by about one-fifth.

Also, Israeli researchers noted that suicides among Israeli soldiers crashed by 40% when the military stopped letting soldiers take their guns home over the weekend.

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