Gun Control

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Gun control is considered both insufficient as well as mawkish. There is a need for certain limits for sales based on the homicide and crime rates in today’s society involving guns. However it is argued that controlling the sale of firearms violates the constitutional right to bear arms as stated in the second amendment. This issue is very political and is considered to be threat to the personal safety of families.
Gun control is an effort to fight violent crime by strengthening laws on the ownership of firearms. The use of a gun in a crime is more likely to result in a person's death than is the use of most other kinds of weapons, including knives. Many people own guns for the protection of their home, for use in hunting or target shooting, or for other legitimate reasons. Gun control laws aim to reduce the criminal use of guns as much as possible and, at the same time, to interfere as little as possible with other gun use.

Approaches to gun control.
The federal government and all U.S. states have some gun control laws. These laws use two main approaches to reducing gun violence. The first involves keeping high-risk people from obtaining firearms. The second prohibits high-risk guns from being acquired by anyone but the police. High-risk people are those whom authorities consider most likely to misuse firearms. They include alcoholics, drug addicts, mentally unbalanced people, and people with criminal records. Federal and state laws prohibit these people from owning guns. The laws also prohibit sales of firearms to minors. In the United States and other countries, laws have been adopted to give law enforcement officials a chance to make sure the buyer is not a high-risk person. For example, some U.S. communities require a person who wishes to own a gun to first get a license. In 1993, the U.S. Congress passed the "Brady bill," which made gun buyers go through a waiting period of five working days between the time they purchas...