Creating stricter gun laws would not decrease gun violence.

Instead of targeting legal gun owners, the government needs to crack down on the massive amounts of illegal guns and gun owners. Anti-Gun owners are quick to point fingers at legal gun owners when they are hardly committing the crime, less than 1/5th of all gun crime to be exact. In the United States today, there is anywhere from 270 million to 310 million legally owned guns. According to the Washington Post, of all those legally owned guns, 80 percent do not commit a gun crime, 18 percent do, while 3 percent are unknown. Creating stricter gun laws would cause very little to no effect at all on gun crime as someone obtaining guns illegally are breaking laws, so stronger gun laws would have no effect.

Buying guns through a gun show is not an easier way for people to buy guns either. Many people against guns do not believe that gun laws translate over to gun shows, but that is not true. Gun shows have the exact same laws as a gun store. A seller can face up to 25 years in federal prison for selling guns illegally. In the United States, you must be 18 to buy a shotgun or assault rifle, and 21 to buy a pistol. The age for buying a pistol is 21 is due to the fact that most gun deaths or injuries are caused by pistols. Finally, magazine size is limited, and the amount of ammo bought at a certain time is monitored as well.

Finally, the reason stricter gun laws will not lower violence is due to the fact since the creation of stricter gun laws 19 years ago, over 1 million people have been turned down the right to purchase or own a weapon. Under United States law, you can not purchase a weapon if you have been convicted of domestic violence, are a convicted drug dealer, have a mental illness, or have any history of violent crime, especially with a weapon.

To those who believe stricter gun laws would solve gun crime in America, explain why in 2013, around 20,000 people illegally owned a gun in California. Creating stricter gun laws would have no effect on those 20,000 people.
This country does have a problem with shooting deaths and injuries, but a majority are from illegal gun owners, and taking illegal guns away is how to reduce gun violence. Yes, guns are stolen, but according to PBS, only 10%-15% of guns used in a violent crime are stolen. Guns are bought through the internet and shipped into this country illegally, that needs to be shut down. Punishing a group of people who use guns in the correct way is not going to lower gun violence in America.