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Gun Crime Research Paper

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Secondly, gun control is the necessary measure of reducing crime rate. According the date of Gun crime statistics by US state, there were 12,664 murders in the US. Of those, 8,583 were caused by firearms in 2011. (Simon Rogers, 2012) Gun crime has a high percentage of crime in the United States. It means gun crime is the main criminal behavior in the American society. Gun crime has two main types in the United States. One is robbery, other one is murder. As I mentioned, Burglary has a high percentage in the American criminal events. Burglary not only can cause property damage, but it also can cause death and injured. Approximately 66 percentages of burglaries are home break-ins. And most of them are carrying guns when they are burgling. In

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