Gun Control

When America was first established the normal household had at least one gun and anyone who did not have one was considered a fool.  Nowadays a large majority of people do not have guns and guns have both positive and negative light shown on them.  The negative views of guns originate from guns being used in criminal activity and being guns being linked to human deaths.  Gun control is an attempt to bring down both criminal activity and gun related injuries and deaths.  However, a few different studies such as one done by Harvard have pointed to more people carrying guns as being the solution to less crime.           

America has more guns per capita than any other country in the world.  According to GunPolicy.org, currently 270,000,000 to 310,000,000 guns are in the hands of civilians in America.  That’s not taking into account the Government’s firearms which are at least another 4,200,000.  Considering those numbers, it is basically impossible to regulate firearms out of the hands of criminals.  If a criminal is willing to pay enough money, they can buy all the guns they want from the black market with a ban in place or not.  Gun control helps to prevent guns from going into the hands of responsible law abiding citizens by making them harder to obtain legally from stores and other legal firearm institutions.