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A gunshot is heard. Panic and screams reap through the silence. Minutes later, the place is swarmed by police, spectators, and last if not first, the media. As the story is told on the news, people are covered with yet another blanket of fear; gun ownership increases, and the problem escalates. When the last state ratified the second amendment in 1939, which states that any American has the right to own a firearm to protect himself, …

…a lot of cases, these guns fall into wrong hands and are misused. We've all seen what happened in Columbine when two teens shot 13 others for no apparent reason. These events envelop people under even more fear, stimulating gun purchases, and the malicious cycle goes on. In order to stop this, we need to get down to the root of the problem. We need to drastically reduce the fear on which this cycle is based.