article by Jason Tomaszewski, published in EducationWorld, 2017 with discussion starters and links to related topics:

• the Second Amendment to the Constitution?
• President Obama’s plan for reducing gun violence
• state of Connecticut (where the Newtown school shooting occurred in 2013) passed the country's toughest gun control law
• what says the National Rifle Association (NRA) on the issue, and what is the response of the National Education Association's (NEA's)
• the article 12 Facts About Guns and Mass Shootings in the United States (by Ezra Klein, in his Washington Post blog post) reviews various statistics on different facets of the gun issue

Would fewer people owning guns mean there would be fewer gun-related deaths?

The question sounds simple, but is actually quite complex. We often begin the discussion by comparing the U.S. to other nations, yet this always has to be done carefully, since laws and cultural beliefs/norms certainly affect individual behavior with regard to whatever amount of guns may be present in a given country.

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