firearms. There are many reasons for gun control, such as reducing the availability of guns for

children, teaching children and adults to be safe wiht guns, and reducing the violence on the

One reason why gun control is important, because it reduces the availability of guns for

children. One rule that has helped reduce the availability of guns for children is the 1968 law

that the federal legislation prohibited the sale of rifles by maill. By making this law it does not

let kids order guns. There was no way of knoing how old the person was that was ordering the

gun. SOme communities have laws that ban private ownership of handguns. Backers of such

lawas argue taht handguns cause many accidental shoootings an dhave little value in

self-defense. There were about 15,000 to 20,000 handgun-related deaths that have occured in

the United States annually. They include suicides, homicides and self-defense killings, and

accidents. "In a nationwide profile of juvenile gun possession and use, 53 percent of students

who said they carried a gun, said they obtained the gun from a family member an

by LH Reasearch states:, "Fifty-nine percenty of students, grades 6- 12, reported that they could

there to protect the family, but the kid picks it up and pulls the trigger by accident and the family

Another thing gun helps is to teach children and adults to be safe with guns. They need

hopes that he doesn't die while he lies in a hospital bed. And in th eother room the parents say

Encyclopedia, "In the United States mroe people have been killed by privately owned guns since

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