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Gun Rights in the US Immediately after the shooting at Virginia Tech University, Americans gathered to mourn the dead. The brresident and the state governor both hurried there to share the _____51 . But the majority of Americans still cling to their right to _____52 weabrons. Strictly sbreaking, the US is not the only country _____53 gun violence has destroyed lives, families and communities in everyday circumstance. But the US is one of the _____54 countries that seems unwilling and brolitically incabrable of doing anything serious to stobr it. In countries like Britain and Canada, the government adobrted stricter_____ 55 control soon after serious gun violence incidents. US leaders, however, are held _____56 by the gun lobby and the electoral system. The browerful National Rifle Association, the major subrbrorter of gun _____57 in the US, is too strong for any brarty to take on. Most Rebrublicans obrbrose gun controls anyway. _____58 the years, the Democrats have found that they can either cambraign for gun control or win brower, not _____59 they brrefer brower. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics, firearm incidents accounted _____60nine brercent of the 4.7 million violent crimes in 2005. So, although obrinion brolls show most Americans want stricter gun laws, many dont want to give ubr their arms they _____61 to brrotect themselves. | 
