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Romney is calling for "unlimited bullet capacity". Gun control activists worry about the mass shootings.

Law enforcement can already beat protesters with batons, spray subversive chemicals into their eyeballs, shoot rubber bullets at a speed of around 100 yards-per-second and blast deafening sound bursts. Massive "Occupy" protests have again erupted across America, paralyzing its West Coast.

This article is about a journalist reaction to a writer's book about Gun Rights.

I agree that with allowing everyone to carry a gun we endanger others and I believe there should be me test and screening before we can carry guns. .

I find this article interesting because it informs the reader that gun control has been such a debated topic for decades now. Also what is more interesting is that depending on the situation people are hesitate to allow the second amendment to pass during tough times like during the panthers era or the wild west.This article just makes you think why is there pendulum for strict gun restriction in one decade and no strict gun control in this decade. For instance, because of the sandy hook elementary shooting are we more afraid of this situation to happen again so we keep our guns tighter in our pockets or do we allow the government to handle this for us?

This articles covers to topic of gun laws and what the government plans to do next. It covers to pros and cons of enforcing gun laws, mainly using examples of school shootings in the past decade and a half. Obama presents his ways to Congress on how he would like to see things changed.

The four main arguments for guns are some of the strongest. They range from the second amendment to "guns don't kill people, people kill people." When a shooting is happening, one way to stop the person very well could be another gun. otherwise you have to run away and hide and can't stop that person.

By focusing on certain categories of mental illness researchers say federal gun law overlooks those at greater risk of violence. The government believes that it is very important that they keep guns away from the mentally ill individuals in our society.

Those with mental illness are shown to have a higher risk of acting out violent crimes (specifically with the use of a gun). However, this is not the case all of the time due to the fact that there are still an abundant amount of shootings each year where the criminal(s) behind the weapon do not have any mental illnesses. We should be looking into the psychological factors of the criminals behind the gun, but also doing more extensive background checks and setting stricter limitations on who is able to purchase/receive guns.

This article basically provides facts and statistics of gun violence throughout the years. It breaks down the different gun violence over the years. The amount of people who own guns today continue to increase dramatically, especially due the recent mass shootings.

Allegedly Japan, as a country, has unified their gun control. You would have to pass competency tests for mental stability as well as physical competency tests to qualify for a gun license, and even then the Japanese government has a hold of firearm production which can limit the output of firearms.

President Obama talks about how he will make a stand against gun violence making sure background checks are enforced . He mentions that America is dealing with sadness with school shootings and violence across the country wants to change that. Mr. Obama felt it was his duty to stop this act before it gets out of control.

Following the shooting at a predominately black church in Charleston, South Carolina, the state is considering removing the Confederate flag from its capitol. But how did it get there in the first place? South Carolina's confederate flag hasn't been flying since the Civil War.

Last week's tragic shooting at Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., that killed nine black parishioners gathered for a Bible study has renewed the debate over one of the most controversial Southern symbols - the Confederate flag. On Monday, a cascade of both Republicans and Democrats endorsed removing the Confederate flag from the statehouse in Columbia.

This article looks at the gun control laws in other countries and the reasons why they developed those laws. IN 2012 the death of 20 children at a school in Newtown Connecticut caused an upraise in the debate on whether we should have a more strict gun control law or not. President Obama tried getting semi-automatics and military style weapons banned and having a more strict background check was defeated in the senate in 2013. Since the mass shootings in 2015 Obama is trying to rekindle the bill.

New York became the first state to pass a gun control law the toughest in the nation -- since the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting massacre last month.

Gun violence has been a rising issue within the last few years, especially with the number of mass shootings. Most people think that mental health issues are what cause these incidents. But even professionals think that if all mental health problems were solved there would still be issues with gun violence.

mass shootings in public places are happening often, affecting people everywhere and causing horror. In general, though, fewer Americans are dying as a result of gun violence