Gun control

Abstract

Gun control is being viewed as the most debatable topic, especially after the unexpected increase in the percentage of brutal killing of innocent citizens, for example killing of innocent children in Mandatory school of Newland shock the entire nation. This report will initially discuss the prevailing concept of gun violence, and will discuss its impacts of the live of the people. In addition to this, this report will also briefly describe the legal and registration structure and in the end will discuss the perception of people regarding the gun violence, and its legal framework

Gun control

Introduction

Debate about reducing the gun culture in this universe is very old, and in United States of America, its intensity is of high magnitude and most importantly public is unaware of the legal regulation of the gun (Smith, 2003). Various sections of media are creating awareness in the public about the devastating impact of keeping a gun, but their efforts have not yet achieved the desired outcome. Situation regarding possessing of arms has become worse in the recent years because of poor legal structure regarding the demand and supply of weapons (Slovak, 2002).

Lack of the legal frameworks is best described as the guilt performed by various stakeholders during the period of regime. Current violent situation provides all the stakeholders to compare their overall performance with one another, and draft unambiguous policies for the reduction of various crimes such as, killing, robbery, unintentional killings, suicide, and others (Open society, 2000). Apart from lack of interest from governmental officials, two other shocking facts were observed, firstly, less than 80 percent of the legal structure is acquainted about the legal obligation regarding the purchase and sale of arms, and secondly, the magnitude at which this disease is spreading across the nation (Banerd, 2009).

Frequent occurrence of heinous incidents has shaken the lives of the countless citizens, and they have started to believe that they are not safe in places like schools, churches, restaurants; in fact, they do not feel safe even at their homes. Out of these horrifying incidents, some become the headlines while the majority of affected people do not bother to report the incidents because of prevailing fear, and lack of trust (Krouse, 2012). According to the statistics, the daily crime rate related to gun violence is soaring to 80 percent of the total crimes reported. In addition to this, latest stats of gun and gun violence are described as follows. (Moorhouse &Wanner, 2006).

each year almost 30,000 people are killed by firearms

On an average 30 people are killed, murdered daily using gun as a tool

50 %of dead people lie between age of 18 and 35

25 percent of dead people are of less than 20 years of age

Second major source of death for people of 15-25 years of age is homicide

Discussion

United States of America is one of the most developed countries of the world. American society is also considered as the most armed society among the developed nations, with approx 50 percent of the citizens possessing one ...