Gun control, as we know, consists of the government restricting the rights of citizens to purchase weapons. There are different types of gun controls. Gun laws differ from state to state or country to country. In some states, if a citizen wanted to purchase a gun he or she would have to fill

One of the worst things that have occurring more and more have been school shootings. There have been shootings in Pearl, Mississippi, Paducah, Kentucky; Jonesboro, Arkansas, Edinboro, Pennsylvania, Fayetteville, Tennessee; Springfield, Oregon; and Littleton Colorado. The U.S. needs to have some sort of federal law to control all this mayhem. In Florida, 200 people attended a statewide conference on school violence in early May of 1993. The Sunshine State has seen school violence increase more than thirty-four percent from 46,088 incidents in the 1990-91 school year to 61,842 last year.

Every aspect of American's gun control culture is geared toward men, from hunting magazines to TV cop shows to Rambo. The guns themselves are designed to accommodate the size and strength of a man's hand. But, most U.S. guns are legally owned: police estimate there are two million guns in New York City, for example, and only about three percent are covered by valid firearm permits. When a gun goes off in Manhattan, says one New York reporter, a crime is usually involved. Of the 2,000 homicides reported in the city in 1993, about seventy-five percent were committed with handguns. (Sirs Researcher, page 2.) Two things that have triggered the gun epidemic in the last three decades in the U.S.: fear and drugs. The fear followed the race riots in the 1960's. Then the drugs became a factor. Many of the people in the drug trade get guns so that they have protection in case someone tries to steal their drugs or money. They believe it is some sort of security and defense, but it ends up causing more problems for people around them and themselves. The guns they use for so called protection are killing innocent people.

out and application to have the right to own that gun. This waiting period can be from three to thirty days. Other states have no waiting period.

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