Why is This A Big issue?

This Is a Big issue because on a daily basis you can go to the news and read about a death that took place. All of the victims of gun violence has been teenagers or young adults, or sometimes, they're the ones behind the gun. Things have gotten so bad over time. Loved ones were taken away and if not by shootings, then stabbings. So far in 2016. there has been 9,945 gun incidents in the United States. 2,521 resulting in deaths. It sees as though the violence will never end , it's just getting worst.

All shootings: Some 13,286 people were killed in the US by firearms in 2015, according to the Gun Violence Archive, and 26,819 people were injured [those figures exclude suicide,Those figures are likely to rise by several hundred, once incidents in the final week of the year are counted. (2)

In the United States, annual deaths resulting from firearms total (3)

2015: 43,876

2014: 33,599

2013: 33,636
2012: 33,563
2011: 32,351
2010: 31,672

2009: 31,347

2008: 31,593
2007: 31,224
2006: 30,896
2005: 30,694
2004: 29,569
2003: 30,136
2002: 30,242
2001: 29,573
2000: 28,663
1999: 28,874
In America, there are approximately 270 million firearms possessed by civilians, and only 897,000 carried by police. (4)

1. Approximately 20% of gun owners own 65% of the guns.
2. The Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms reports that about 5.5 million new firearms were manufactured in America in 2010. 95% of these were for the U.S. market.
3. Close to 33,000 Americans were victims of gun-related deaths in 2011 and an average of 268 citizens are shot every day.
4. In 2011, 10.3 in every 100,000 people in the U.S. were victims of gun-related deaths.

Source: (1)http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34996604

(2)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_States

(3)http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/united-states

(4)https://www.dosomething.org/us/facts/11-facts-about-guns