Provide a 6 pages analysis while answering the following question: Ownership of Firearms in America. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide. An abstract is required.  One of the main reasons why gun control laws should be tightened to restrict private ownership of firearms is gun violence. The topic is not restrained to gangs and standard lawbreakers but individuals either in personal use or in groups. The level of mental stability, intent to use guns violently, and resulting violence in the name of self-defense are some of the issues considered. Research estimates show that about 200 million firearms are in private possession. Though the uses vary, most of which are supposed to be legal, with such a large number of guns in the public’s hands, most of whom have no restraint of any kind, gun violence is bound to arise and at high frequency (Cook and Ludwig 1).

Injuries arising from firearms are the most prevalent in public health cases. They range from injuries inflicted through gun violence to one of the most used litigation court battles against the gun industry, malfunction injuries (Lytton 13). The gun industry’s failure to adhere to design requirements to make them more user friendly and the lax laws governing gun ownership has contributed to a problem of unrestrained occurrence of gun injuries. The seriousness of some of these injuries and the cost involved in treating them is enormous and, therefore, a financial burden to those most affected the middle and low-income earners.

However, these injuries are unpreventable because of the pervasiveness of gun control laws that would prevent this by restricting private ownership of firearms.

Due to the use of guns, there are numerous numbers of deaths, which is alarming. Apart from health caused deaths, those resulting from shootings rank approximately second. Casualties of this kind are of murder, accidents, or suicides. Apart from murder, deaths estimate of research shows that 1,356 are accidental deaths by gunshot, and 19,590 are suicidal deaths by gunshot (Cook and Ludwig 15). These numbers prove only more the danger that is at private ownership of firearms since when the numbers are divided into groups, the situation gets worse with underage subjects getting significant numbers. . .