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Essay / The Case Against the Gun Ban - 792
In “The Case Against the Gun Ban” it states: “There are about 300 million guns in this country , or almost one for every man, woman and child. » This sentence can be interpreted in two different ways. This could mean that there are almost as many guns as people and that is too many guns. It could also mean that with 300 million guns in circulation, people will always find a way to get a gun, whether it's banned or not. In the same article, Shiha said: “Paddock claimed the lives of 59 people, including his own. But look at the worst mass murders in modern American history: 9/11, in which thousands were killed by hijacked planes that crashed into buildings; the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people with a pipe bomb and a truck. Meanwhile, the attacker in Nice, France, managed to kill 87 people – and injure 434 – simply by mowing them down with his truck.” She includes this information because there were more deaths and injuries in these attacks than in the Paddocks shootings. Each example was as simple as the following: whether it's a pipe bomb or a truck running people over, it's as simple as getting a gun and shooting people that to just knock people over.