Control People Not Guns Based on a survey data from the U.S. Department of Justice, roughly 5,340,000 violent crimes were committed in the United States during 2008. These include simple/aggravated assaults, robberies, sexual assaults, rapes, and murders. Of these, about 436,000 or 8% were committed by offenders visibly armed with a gun. The USA has the highest death rate than any other industrialized nation. Although, not all of the deaths in the USA are caused by guns but instead of natural…
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