Gun control What is gun control? Gun control can be defined in many different ways, it can be defined as the types of guns that can be sold and bought, it can also be defined as who may sell and have possession over them, as well as where and how they are purchased. Gun control is a very controversial debate among congress, they have debated over it for decades. They have also debated over “background checks on buyers, laws regulating who can carry weapons in public, and the kinds of guns and gun accessories available for purchase” (Patricia Smith). We have had laws that ban certain types of guns, there has been many massacres because of background checks not being done correctly or not being done at all, and maybe involving technology in guns might help reduce the wrong usage of guns. In the past and even now there has been laws that prevent the selling and buying of certain types of guns. In 1993 The Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, was passed by congress, which required licensed gun dealers to do background checks on buyers (Junior scholastic). In 1994, President Clinton passed a law that banned weapons such as the AR-15 until 2004 when the law expired (npr.org). The second constitutional Amendment says …show more content…
to get rid of so many guns, but as technology advances there are ways to keep guns somewhat save. There is something called smart guns which are locks guns to the usage of other people other than the owner. The only problem with the proposal of the new technology is that some gun owners think that if they were in a bad situation where they needed the gun and they were not able to get the gun unlocked on time they could be hurt. According to a report from New York Times “nearly 7,000 children committed suicide with guns from 1999 to 2014, and thousands of people are killed every year with misappropriated