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The right to feel safe

It just happenned yesterday http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/mall-in-columbia-on-lockdown-amid-reports-of-shooter/2014/01/25/4b3e8fb2-85e2-11e3-b85b-b305db87fb90_story.html The right to feel safe The right to bear firearms is ensured by our Constitution. Yes, we have the right to protect ourselves but we also need a right to feel safe at home, at school, at work, on the street, in a crowd, in the communities. You do not want to be a victim of firearm violence or crime; neither do I. Thus, I believe in tightening gun control laws and making them more strict. It should be difficult for one to get a gun, and impossible for just about everyone to get military-style weapons such as semi and fully automatic high-capacity ammunition weapons in our nation. Today in our country, there are too many victims of gun violence because we make it too easy for dangerous people to get dangerous weapons. Nearly 100,000 Americans are shot each year, in which more than 30,000 people died