Topic > The Case Against Banning Guns - 792

In the book "The Case Against Banning Guns", it states: "There are approximately 300 million firearms in this country, nearly one for every man, woman and child." This phrase can be interpreted in two different ways. It could mean that there are almost as many guns as there are people, which is too many guns. Furthermore, it could mean that with 300 million guns in circulation people will always find a way to get a gun, no matter if it's outlawed or not. In the same article, Shiha states that “Paddock killed 59 people, including his own. But let's look at the worst mass murders in modern American history: 9/11, in which thousands of people were killed by hijacked planes that crashed into buildings; the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people with a homemade bomb and a truck. Meanwhile, the Nice attacker in France managed to kill 87 people and injure 434 simply by mowing them down with his truck.” It includes this information because there were more deaths and injuries in these attacks than in the paddock shootings. Each example was as simple as the next, whether it was a homemade bomb or a truck running over people, it's just as easy to get a gun and shoot people as it is to just run over people.