United States, is one that simply will not go away. If history is to

be any guide, no matter what the resolution to the gun control debate

is, it is probable that the arguments pro and con will be much the

same as they always have been. In 1977, legislation was passed by the

Canadian Parliament regulating long guns for the first time,

restructuring the availability of firearms, and increasing a variety

of penalties . Canadian firearms law is primarily federal, and

"therfore national in scope, while the bulk of the firearms regulation

in the United States is at the state level; attempts to introduce

stricter leglislation at the federal level are often defeated".

The importance of this issue is that not all North Americans

are necessarily supportive of strict gun control as being a feasible

alternative to controlling urban violence. There are concerns with the

opponents of gun control, that the professional criminal who wants a

gun can obtain one, and leaves the average law-abiding citizen

helpless in defending themselves against the perils of urban life. Is

it our right to bear arms as North Americans? Or

Sproule and Kennett, gun control "may be influencing some suspects to

usually defending each other against their opponents of the issue, and

read many of the same books and magazines. As a result of this, the

and scholars in the field of gun control and violence. Examining the

literature cited above. For one, Sproule and Kennett , indicate that

means of a gun that can be easily obtained in the United States due to

cited above, there findings undermine the apparent claim of gun

rate of homicide in the United States undoubtedly reflects, to some

(it doesn't neccessarily mean that they are law-abiding) then they are

(both entertainment and news programming) and, Canadians and Americans

violence has had detrimental effects on North American society. In

for illegal handguns has emerged from the United States into Canada,

States is to a large measure the result of Canadian gun control, and

has seen dramatic increase in violent crime, over a short period of

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