What are the reasons for gun control?

More gun control laws would reduce gun deaths. There were 464,033 total gun deaths between 1999 and 2013: 270,237 suicides (58.2% of total deaths); 174,773 homicides (37.7%); and 9,983 unintentional deaths (2.2%). read more

On another National School Walkout day, 57 percent of teens are worried about dying in a school shooting. They shouldn't be. read more

Historically, the primary reason for gun control was not crime control, but social control. Britain embarked on its strict regimen of gun control after WW I, fearing that the breakdown of its class system could lead to an armed uprising by the common folk. read more

This support for gun control, by the way, is pretty bipartisan: even with controversial stuff like reinstating the assault weapons ban, roughly half of Republicans are in favor, along with a majority of Democrats and Independents. read more