Gun Control Needs to be Enforced
GUN CONTROL In 1990, back in Joliet, Illinois, a police officer was shot 3 times in the chest and 2 times in the head by a 9mm handgun. ... If gun laws were enforced and guns were tougher to acquire, then maybe this crime would never have happened. ... Gun laws should be more strict and old laws need to be enforced to lower the heinous crime rate that shadows our country. ... Just about every day gun shots would echo through our neighborhood in the late evening. ... Joliet did not have many strict gun control laws, because of this, crime was a major concern. ... Japan has an implausible crime rate, with only about 1-50 gun related crimes a year. ... were to pursue gun control laws parallel with Japan, then maybe our numbers would not be so dissimilar from Japan’s.