Where Have All the Guns Gone
In today’s society guns are everywhere. News casts shower the public with stories about gun violence, movie heroes blow away the bad guys, cartoon characters brazenly shower each other with flying bullets, and children shoot each other in school rooms. When is it going to stop? Gun control advocates believe that the answer lies in more and more laws designed to restrict ownership of firearms to the public. Gun rights advocates think that such laws are an infringement on civil rights guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States. They want more enforcement of existing laws and tougher punishments for breaking current laws. Everyone agrees that something must change. However, what that ‘something’ should be has sparked fierce public debate. The latest change has been the introduction of background checks and a waiting period before purchasing a firearm. The “Brady Handgun Control Act of 1993” incorporated this change and made it mandatory for all States. Recently the Supreme Court overturned parts of the law, however, many States adopted similar laws requiring the same checks.Studies and statistics indicate that although some criminals are declined when trying to buy guns l
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Approximate Word count = 2852
Approximate Pages = 11 (250 words per page double spaced)
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