Gun Control is a big deal in America at the moment. It is one of those things that have a good side, and a bad side. With this, many laws have already been put into effect, and needed to be. The question still remains, should an American Citizen be able to purchase a gun? If guns are taken away, how would someone defend themselves? Is it possible that they wouldn’t need to? Some people believe Gun Control should not advance any further. Many laws are involved with the term “Gun Control.” During the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan, Press Secretary James Brady was critically wounded. As a result, a new bill was put into place called the Brady Bill. This bill created a system of “Background Checks” to prevent criminals from purchasing firearms. Background checks regulate every single person that attempts to buy a gun. Every person who shouldn’t have a gun is placed on an NCIS database and the list is looked at with every gun purchase. This law has many loopholes. A dealer that does not have a license to sell guns isn’t required to look in the NCIS database due to the fact that they should not be selling guns in the first place. Each and every state has different laws, some are more severe, like the Sullivan law, some are not (Gottfried). Another law in New York City, NY is such a law called The Sullivan Law. Considered to be the most brutal …show more content…
We own estimated 270 million firearms (about ninety guns for every hundred people). Thirty thousand people are killed by guns a year, usually by handguns (Wright). There are reasons that justify this belief. In 1968, assassins gunned down Martin Luther King Jr. Robert Kennedy was killed in that same year thirty- one years later, on April 20 in Colorado , two students “got around the system” by purchasing guns from an unlicensed dealer. They shot up a school in Columbine,