Gun control America needs to change

1. If you banned guns then it is not likely that there would even be a mass shooting in the first place so civilians would not need to own a gun to protect themselves. I know that you can never completely prevent gun crime but the amount of cases will decrease massively. It has worked everywhere else and so I don"t see why it wouldn"t work in America. 2. In 2018 there is only around 100 people who have been killed due to knives in the UK. More people have been injured but there has only been a fairly small amount of deaths. Also, This year in the UK 37 people have died due to terror attacks. The USA however, In 2018 so far 9662 people have been killed due to gun crime and there has been 154 mass shootings. 456 children aged 0-11 have been killed or injured by a gun in the USA this year and 1915 teenagers aged 12-17. These are shocking figures. Yes knife and terrorism have increased recently in the UK however in is still nowhere near on the scale of how many people die due to guns in America. And with knives it is much harder to kill people in masses which is why the number of knife deaths in the UK is much lower. It is difficult to compare Uks knife crime and America"s gun crime as gun crime in America happens so much more frequently and on a much larger scale. 3. This test that you do have to do clearly is not a good enough test as it is allowing mentally unwell people as young as 18 to have access to a gun. It is not helping to prevent bad people getting guns which suggests to me that guns should be a lot harder to get hold of and that this test should be much stricter. 4. It is not likely that the police will turn against you as most do their job to help people not to hurt them. Also, Another civil war where everyone is armed would be fatal for America because everyone would just be shooting each other and in the end there would be nobody left! And I am sure some Americans have a good reason for having a gun. I get that you believe you need it to protect yourself. However gun crime has gotten so out of hand and it is time to have tighter gun control and to stop more or less anyone having access to a gun. 5. We shouldn"t be making it so easy for people to kill and if we stopped gun crime hopefully civilians would not need to protect themselves with a gun. And as I said before the majority of police get that job because their care about their country and they want to help people not to destroy it. 6. I believe that obesity, Heart disease etc are other big issues that America need to deal with as the amount of people that die due to being overweight is shocking. And I do believe more rules and laws should be put in place to reduce this. However, This debate is about gun crime and to reduce death to to guns not about obesity. But it is sort of the same idea. People are dying due to eating masses of junk food, Take away the junk food they can"t eat it and so have to eat something more healthy, Death fiend to obesity goes down. People are dying due to gun crime, Take away the gun, People cannot kill anyone with a gun, Gun crime decreases massively. 7. There are more ways of protecting yourself than just using a gun. For example how about every American learns self defence. Take away the guns and there will be a minimal amount of gun crime. Someone has a knife learn how to disarm someone with a knife, Someone"s robbing your house, Learn self defence and then you are able to get them out of your house. You can use fighting skills and self defence to protect yourself from a lot of things and you don"t have to be really strong and have a lot of muscle either. 8. I know America is a country with a culture very different to mine and they are very devoted to their guns however it is time for a change because the amount of gun deaths is increasing everyday and more and more people, Including children re dying because America does want to lay their guns go. Children are stating to be afraid to go to school because of the increase of mass shootings. This is not the type of world a child should be growing up in. School should be a place to learn and feel safe and happy but instead it"s a place where they have to learn what to do if somebody comes into the school with a gun and starts shooting. It just isn"t right.