Gun control has been a very controversial media topic throughout recent years, which has mainly been sparked by the rash of unfortunate school violence, such as the Littleton, Colorado shootings at Columbine High School in April of 1999. Fourteen students and a teacher lost their lives in the massacre, which gave gun control topics that had been sitting in front of Congress some very heated momentum. With the media's constant display of the tragedy congress was forced to take some sort of action to let the American public feel somewhat at ease that their government was on the ball in getting some sort of law into the making.
             Advocates of gun control now had some hard evidence to make a stand against gun rights activists. The senate legislation in 1999 applied the mandatory three-day waiting period for background checks of potential gun buyers initiated by the Brady Bill, which was set forth in 1993. The House approved a bill to limit the background check to twenty-four hours, but the bill was shot down after the tragedy in 1999. Now all guns sold are forced to include a safety lock, which will in turn drive up prices of firearms. Lawmakers are also attempting to limit the importation of high-volume ammunition clips manufactured for weapons that are currently being sold in the United States. Gun control advocates are now pushing for some even stronger provisions to the laws. They have attempted to limit handgun purchases to one per month and also to raise the legal age limit of ownership of guns from the current age of eight-teen to a proposed age of twenty-one. Most democratic government official!
             s have shown to be strong supporters for all of these actions.
             On the other hand Gun Rights supporters say that these restrictions would violate their second amendment rights as law-abiding citizens. They have shown that the laws will also decrease gun sales, which in turn will put many employees of gun makers out of jobs and
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