Essay On Gun Control Problems

Facing The problems:Gun control teens In 2015, 124 teenage children were involved in unintentional gun accidents in the united states(“Gun Control”). Gun control affects everyone for in today’s society. To have gun control improve effectiveness take a look how far we have come starting in the years of weaponry first being in use. When it first needed to be addressed with gun control. The main population that needs focus on is the teenage. If we attack the situation with the young population would rate would drop in later generations. Understanding how easily accessible the teenage population can get the guns from off the street. In an alley behind the grocery store or supermarket. This society had bad years of gun control over time. Many
deaths have occurred and many new illegal activities have sprung up. Many teens believe gun control does not affect them or does not keep them safe, the history, accessibility, and the issues we face today with gun control affect how we deal with it and how we see it. The history of gun control is pretty long starting back to when guns started to become an issue with misuses. In 1181 king Henry took away all weapons and protective gear that the Jewish population owned(Henderson). In that king Henry was worried about the Jewish would rebel against him. He took away the swords and metal plated armour. In 1981 James Brady and his wife Sarah Brady joins a group to help handgun control. They decided to join the group after an attempted assassination of president Reagan and James Brady. The weapon that as used in the attempt was a .22 caliber pistol. In 1993 Colin Ferguson shoots a couple rounds at passengers on a long island railroad commuter train. He killed six civilians and injured nineteen civilians (Henderson). With certain gun control laws in place the shootings on the train and the attempted assassination was not easy to accomplish.

Guns in today’s society are a bit harder for teens to access than before,at one point teens were able to go behind a grocery store and supermarket and meet someone for a gun at a low cost(Lang). Even at a young age of fourteen teens could go buy a gun illegally. Some guns could have been been bought off the black market for as low as fifty dollars. In today's society a fairly popular type of gun is the Airsoft guns. Airsoft guns are made of a plastic material that can be spring loaded or air canister of Co2. Since these guns are made of plastic they will not be detected by a metal detector. These types of guns shoot little plastic pellets but can be modified to shoot metal or lead pellets(“gun control”).

The united states of America has the most leading gun deaths in an industrialized country(“gun control”).
With the united states being the high with most gun related deaths needs to change. Guns are too easily available. The way guns are so easily available has different ways of getting into the united states. They can get in the united states registered and legal. They could also come in illegally unregistered. A gun could come or be made legally with a serial number once registered. A gun with a serial number could come illegal by sanding or shaving the serial number off. Gun control is suppose to keep guns and keep everyone safe. Since gun control has had some flaws that can cause unintentional shootings with kids playing with guns they find that could be unregistered so they cannot trace to the gun owner. In 2015, 124 children were killed in an unintentional shooting(“gun
control”).

Many people say gun control saves lives everyone needs a gun to protect themselves.
Guns are needed to protect us at home and walking down the street. The government makes it easy for you to do that by getting a permit. The permit is for carrying a concealed weapon or CCW. America is getting ideas from Switzerland on gun control. Switzerland is a pro-gun country just about every capable adult owns a weapon and has a CCW permit. Since so many people have a weapon on hand the crime rate is really low. The swiss army isn't officially an army it is all citizens banding together to protect their
country.(Kopel)

There are many solutions for gun control,the best is just to keep watching how the citizens in Switzerland deal with gun control and how they deal with crimes. There crime rate is so much lower there than the crime rate here in the United States(kopel). The swiss have strict permit restrictions to what you can and can’t do. Since the swiss government provides purchasers of semi-automatic and fully automatic guns they are government owned weapons and with a crime committed the consequences are raised. If the united states promote proper gun use and help people understand the use of guns rates in America would go down and the carelessness would end.

In conclusion the way gun control is being approached isn’t working it makes gun control seem useless. The way gun control was approached was more effective in the past than it is now. Now there is more crime and death related to guns and weaponry. Some guns are used in the military for purposely killing people and without punishment. The guns used in the military is for protection how most guns should be used in the house for home protection. Most household guns are the main ones to miss used in unintentional shootings. Gun control can have negative effects on lives.