Gun Control

The United States is currently facing a new epidemic. It hasn’t come from South Africa, and you can’t run to the doctors to get a vaccine. It could be lying in your bedroom, and you haven’t realized that it is a real problem. Guns are the newest, and deadliest killer in the country today. The problem with guns is that they are designed to kill, but yet they are the only product in the United States to have almost no regulations. The Consumer Product Safety Commission monitors safety for all consumer goods, except guns (Gun industry reform 1)

In the years between 1984 and 1994 the United States watched as the death rate for 15-19 year olds by firearms increases 222%, while the rate for non-firearm homicide decreased 13%. “Within five years, firearms are expected to take over motor vehicle accidents as the leading cause of death among American children” ( Kids & Guns 1). Today, there are over 200 million guns in the United States

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This new system does not have many of the records necessary to have a complete background check (Loopholes 1-2)

Currently, the United States does not have very strict gun control policies. That works out to almost one for every citizen. Guns are in 43% of houses with children. That is 500 lives that could have been saved, if the gun industry would do something to make its products safer. There are also many loopholes in the law that makes them easily accessible. This law said that there was to be a background check performed on anyone buying a gun, and a five day waiting period before he or she can actually purchase the gun. In 1998, a good friend of mine noticed his father’s gun. In a survey of male eleventh graders, 36%-50% said that it would be easy for them to get a gun if they wanted to.

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. Adults are not required to store guns where kids can’t reach them. Each year, 500 youths are killed by a firearm on accident. The waiting period that was established in the Brady Bill expired in 1998, and now an instant check system is in effect. The town was sued under the second amendment, and he court decided that the ordinance was valid, and that there was no individual right to bear arms stated in the second amendment. One is the simple fact that they are easy to obtain. Six minutes later, he was pronounced dead.

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