Guns are very dangerous objects and should not be allowed on the streets. I get it if you use a firearm to hunt or you are a policeman, but if you aren't any of those things, then why would you need a gun?

More than 31,000 people a year in the United States die from gunshot wounds.

The cost of gun violence in the U.S was estimated to be about $100 billion annually in 1998.

Kids are getting into their parent's/guardian's firearms, and some not so good results have came from that.

A lot of people who are against making gun control laws stricter will try to tell you that guns are used for self defence in mass shootings. Well, according to procon.org,"between 2007 to 2011 0.79% of victims (235,700) protected themselves with a threat of use or use of firearm."

At least 58 people were killed and more than 500 were hurt Sunday night when Stephen Paddock rained gunfire on concertgoers in Las Vegas, the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history.

For every one person killed with guns, two more are injured.

Seven children and teens (age 19 or under) are killed with guns in the U.S. on an average day.

In an average month, 50 women are shot to death by intimate partners in the U.S.

America’s gun homicide rate is more than 25 times the average of other high-income countries.

When a gun is present in a situation of domestic violence, it increases the risk the woman will be killed fivefold.

In 2013, there were 73,505 nonfatal firearm injuries (23.2 injuries per 100,000 U.S. citizens), and 33,636 deaths due to "injury by firearms" (10.6 deaths per 100,000 U.S. citizens)

Mass shootings have been covered extensively in the media, mass shootings account for a small fraction of gun-related deaths[16] and the frequency of these events steadily declined between 1994 and 2007, rising between 2007 and 2013.

A quarter of robberies of commercial premises in the U.S. are committed with guns.Fatalities are three times as likely in robberies committed with guns than where other, or no, weapons are used, with similar patterns in cases of family violence.

U.S. policy aims to maintain the right of most people to own most types of firearms.

Cities such as Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Cleveland, and New Orleans all have very high per-capita murder rates. Individual police estimates usually find at least 65% and often more than 80% of all murders in those cities are gang-related.

The United States is one of the most gun-friendly countries in the world. Roughly half of American households have a gun.

Between 1999 and 2013, there were 270, 237 firearm suicides in the United States, accounting for 52% of all suicides during those years.