FREE ESSAY ON GUN CONTRO IN THE U.S.

GUN CONTRO IN THE U.S.

Gun Control in the U.S.
Gun control, as we know it, consists of the government restricting the ability of
individual citizens to purchase weapons. The different types of gun control vary from
waiting periods between checks, so that high-risk people can't purchase guns through
legal channels, and completely banning certain types of guns. There are countless ways
for criminals to avoid these government regulations, causing them to only render the
ability of innocent citizens, protecting their home and family's, to purchase guns.
Another practice technique of preventing dangerous firearms from killing honest people is
to ban an entire type of weapon. The AK-47 is a commonly used example of this. Again, the
criminals still have limited access to the weapon through underground channels, but these
banned weapons are so powerful that there really isn't a practical purpose for them in
the home or in hunting.
This can easily be adverted by the common criminal who knows anything about the way guns
are assembled. A semi-automatic machine gun can be converted into a fully-automatic gun
with a little handcraft. A shotgun can become a bloody powerful weapon by sawing off the
tip of it. Obviously, new methods of gun control are needed to produce desired results.
In the first half of 1991, fifty children, under the age of seventeen had been shot to
death. If we continue to monitor the sale of firearms, there must be new techniques that
can watch where the guns end up. And if we decide that we can or will go down that track,
we must make that judgment earnestly, and without haste, because it will decide the
future of The United States of America as we know it.