By: Austin Goss

• My PowerPoint is about the situation of gun control.
• Is gun Control good or Bad?
• Are guns the cause of violence?
• Should Americans be ban from firearms

i Violent Crimes
• Homicide
• Attempted murder
• Assault
• Abduction
• Robbery
• Suicides
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• Total suicides
Firearms o Crimes
Homicide
Attempted murder
Assault
Abduction
Robbery
Total suicides
Firearm
3,671
918
3,671
818 [22%]
596
236,364
1,130
28,888
TOTAL
596
918
WITH FIREARMS
196 [32%]
306 [33%]
236,364 5,959 [3%]
1,130 0
28,88 7,371 [26%]
3,671
TOTAL
306 [33%]
5,959 [3%]
196 [32%]
0
7,371 [26%]
WITH FIREARMS

Cause Number
Heart Disease 710,760
Cancer 553,091
Stroke 167,661
Vehicle 43,354
Suicide(including firearms) 29,350
Firearms 28,163

Accidental Deaths
Cause Number
• Falls 13,322
• Poison (solid, liquid) 12,757
• Choking on food or other object 4,313
• Drowning 3,402
• Fires, flames 3,377
• Firearms 776

• Guns save more lives than they take; prevent more injuries than they inflict
• 2.5 million citizens use their guns to defend themselves every year
• Armed citizens kill more criminals than police.
Citizens shoot and kill twice as many criminals as police do every year (1,527 to 606).

• It is the constitutional right of every American to bear firearms.
• This is something that every American should take pride in, and hopefully will be a right that we will always have.

• “Criminal Violence means guns”
• “Women are the victims of gun violence”
• “Gun ownership leads to violence”
• “Gun control keeps us safe”

Fact
• Violent crimes have decreased by 15% in the past year.
• Violent crimes have increased in Britain since their hand gun ban was put in place in 1991
Fiction
• Guns make people more violent
• Guns kill people
• Society is becoming more violent
• Taking guns from American citizens will reduce crime and violence

• 290 million American citizens own firearms as of 2006.
• Number of gun ownership is up and crime is down.

• They were created for both protect and survival
• Today they are still used for them reason but also for sport and a way of like.
• Guns will always be around, different people use them for different things.
• Our founding fathers agreed that we should have the right to bear arms, who should be able to tell use other wise.

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