Gun control is when someone controls the sells and the use of guns also decides if they should be allowed to own them. The second amendment is the bearing arms meaning that the government allows people to use and keep guns in their homes or in public. There are people who are complaining about how guns are being used to homicide and suicide and also guns are dangerous for people to keep. But, gun control helps reduce the number of people being killed or dying by someone or themselves shooting. Suicide is when someone who tries to kill themselves and also homicide is someone who kills another person. During 1968, the federal law control people’s behavior who owns guns and it’s called the gun control act. People need guns to protect themselves from danger and also the military needs guns to protect us from other countries who try to attack us. “Gun ownership is an American tradition older than the country itself and is protected by the Second Amendment; more gun control laws would infringe upon the right to bear arms.” (https://gun-control.procon.org/). Guns are useful for self-defense because Wayne LaPierre, Executive Vice President of the NRA, stated, "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun." (https://gun-control.procon.org/). …show more content…
They only let people at age eighteen are allowed own a long gun or handgun. The federal law said, “prohibits the possession of a handgun or handgun ammunition by any person under the age of 18.” (http://lawcenter.giffords.org/). There are people who own a handgun or long gun did not have parental consent like their mom and dad doesn’t have to know that their child has purchased a gun. People who live in Maine also allow sixteen-year-olds have transfer eighteen for sales which is too young to have a gun and it is also