“A lone gunman killed more than 50 people and injured at least 406 others after he opened fire on a crowd attending the Route 91 Harvest Festival concert, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) officials stated Monday morning. Police said that the suspect, Stephen Paddock, had more than 10 rifles in his hotel room(BAIRD).”Gun background checks are a sensitive subject. It is not easy to control gun circulation especially when we can not keep it out of hands of felons or potential felons. This gunman had 10 rifles and, do you know where he got them, not from a gun dealer. There is a bill in process that will help stop this issue but I wonder will it. The official title of this bill is, “Should Gun Sellers Have to Wait for a Completed Background Check to Transfer a Firearm(H.R. 3464)”. This bill will make it a priority for a gun dealer to make gun buyers go through background checks before selling a…show more content… One study shows, “researchers found that a 1995 Connecticut law requiring gun buyers to get permits (which themselves required background checks) was associated with a 40 percent decline in gun homicides and a 15 percent drop in suicides. Similarly, when researchers studied Missouri's 2007 repeal of its permit-to-purchase law, they found an associated increase in gun homicides by 23 percent, as well as a 16-percent increase in suicides(KURTZLEBEN).”I see where these people are coming from. The results show that making these laws to reduce gun homicides. Is this really the case, in an article by Npr Daniel Webster said, “ so many factors influence gun violence in different ways, it's hard to say how much the effects seen in Connecticut and Missouri would also happen in other states.(KURTZLEBEN)” How can we say that this will work for other states? States like Missouri isn’t a place of very high gun violence so compare it to a place like Alabama or Alaska It isn’t
