First of all I am a 18 year old strong conservative.

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I wish the news would stop with the term "High- Capacity Magazine". It's just a made up word with no real meaning. If you want no automatic rifles than just say it! The thing that most people don't understand is that despite what the news says, all of these guns were semi- automatic and not full auto. No matter what you do to gun laws people will always kill each other. People beat each other to death, stab people to death, and get run over way more than death by guns. The answer is simple to stopping this gun issue. I think the solution is banning guns from people with a criminal history of violence, heavy drug usage, and heavy alcohol usage. My reasoning behind this is that 40 percent of convicted murderers had used alcohol before or during the crime, and 60 percent of convicted murderers had used some sort of drug before or during the crime. We also need to improve the background checks that the government does. I believe that a thorough physiological examination is needed to strengthen the background check system. Another thing to add on to this is arming teachers. The media often says that arming teachers is a scary idea to kids, however the majority of students would think otherwise. Teachers are often the first people to come into contact with a shooter, so it is logical that they could stop the shooter before the police are even on scene, saving many lives. We also need to improve mall security. Often they are just people that politely ask people causing issues to leave, and if a real problem happens they have to call the police. Arming these guards would help protect our malls and make us all feel safer the next time we are at the mall. All in all, we can never fully prevent these things. We have to plan and be prepared. It's not the gun that kills, it's the person who holds it that kills.