Dear President,

The amount of gun related deaths in America is ten times more than Australia, Germany
and Portugal (per 100,000 people). Why is this happening? Isnt our government supposed to
keep our Safety and Happiness as its highest priority? But how can we think were doing a
good job when people all across America are scared? Scared to go outside because they might get
shot due to their race, their religion, or even just because they were in the wrong place at the
wrong time. I guess its true that mankind is, more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable,
than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. I think that
instead of keeping our same gun laws and suffering all the while, we must change them to ensure
the Safety and Happiness of our Nations people. We, as a nation, need to revisit our
interpretation of the second amendment to better improve our country and its peoples safety, not
from other countries but from ourselves.
In countries with stricter firearm regulations and less guns in circulation there are
considerably less gun related deaths, as stated in the introduction. If we can reduce the amount of
privately owned firearms, like in Australia, we can save thousands of lives. You may think, Hey
doesnt this go against my second amendment? To that I say no. The second amendment states
that in order to maintain a well regulated militia the people have the right to keep and bear arms.
But to understand this amendment you must first understand that it was written at a time when
there was no formal army, and the threat of Britain invading was still very real. They had to come
together and fight for their country because no one else could, it was just the American people
versus England. Now we have a military, we have police, we have our safety, so why do we still
have our guns? I know there are cases of police misusing firearms but taking guns away from
citizens would still help. It would take away one of the main reasons civilians get shot, police
mistakenly thinking they have a gun.
You may also argue that you need guns to defend yourself. But what is there to defend
against if no one else has a gun. Now Im not advocating for a fully gun free society, they have
their uses when in the hands of trained officers and citizens. So what I want is for guns to only be
used by people who have undergone in depth background checks and follow gun laws to the tee. I
believe that the only guns that should be accessible to the general public are bolt-action rifles,
hunting shotguns and revolvers. This way guns with fast fire rates cannot be used by the public at
all. No automatic or semi-automatic guns of any kind.
We need to fix our gun laws or else the unnecessary violence and killings wont stop. Was
it necessary for twenty children, ages six to seven, to be killed in their own school? We need to
stop this, by implementing more strict gun laws in the U.S. If not we will continue on the path

were on now, there will continue to be needless deaths all because people want their guns. But if
you want to stop losing over thirty thousand americans annually to guns then stop looking at it as
a statistic and see it for what it is, a tragedy. Dont let your fellow Americans die just because of
an outdated law that we cant seem to let go of.