NAME: ABDUL HAKEEM

ENROLL NO: 01-177211-064

CURRENT SITUATION REGARDING BEARING OF ARMS

There is no country where the debate over gun regulation is more heated than in the United
States, where the right to bear arms is guaranteed by the constitution despite the country's high
rate of homicides with firearms (including mass killings). Proponents of increased gun control in
the United States argue that limiting access to guns will save lives and reduce crime. Mass
shootings involving firearms are so common in the United States that the vast majority of them
go unreported by major media sources.

The number of mass shooting incidents in the United States in 2021

The total number of shootings in 2021, when four or more victims are counted, is 13.4% higher
than in 2020. 2,844 people have been hurt and 702 have died as a result of the shootings.1 Even
though shootings in public places like the San Jose transit shooting, the metro Atlanta spa
shootings, and the Boulder, Colorado, supermarket shooting attracted a lot of media attention,

1
“What’s in the Bipartisan US Gun Control Bill? And What Isn’t?A” (ALJAZERA.COM)
<https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/6/13/what-is-and-is-not-in-bipartisan-us-gun-
control-proposal> accessed June 22, 2022
the majority of mass shootings disproportionately affect Black and brown communities and
receive little coverage.

The number of people killed in school shooting incidents in 2021

There have been at least 80 more injuries. The number of fatalities from school shootings this
year is the most since 2018, when two shooters killed 10 students at Sante Fe High School in
Texas and 17 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.2

This shows that a large number of people are being killed by use of arms and these numbers are
increasing day by day and is creating violence. As a member of Republican Party I insist you Mr.
President to pass the bill so that the violence created because of use of arms in society should be
restricted.

2
Brownlee C, “Gun Violence in 2021, By the Numbers” (THE TRACE)
<https://www.thetrace.org/> accessed May 27, 2022