Gun Control Problem Solution Essay

Columbine. Virginia Tech. Aurora. Sandy Hook. Charleston. Roseburg. What do all of these places have in common? All have been a site of a mass shooting in the last 20 years. After each of these mass shootings, there has been some sort of call to action to prevent the next massacre. This action is to curb the epidemic of gun violence that permeates throughout the country, a country where there has been over 43,000 incidents of gun violence in the first ten months of 2015 alone (Gun Violence Archive). Solutions have been brought up, but the United States Congress has not passed any laws in order to control firearms in this country. There is one solution that Congress has voted on in the past five years, and does have overwhelming public support, universal background checks. In this heated debate about gun control, one of the only solutions that has bipartisan support is background checks, mostly because of the limited scope that it is compared to other possible solutions and its effectiveness in …show more content…
There are other solutions for gun control, including implementing smart gun technology, requiring strict qualifications to own a gun, and even to a full confiscation of personal firearms, but those do not have a decent amount of public support, and possibly infringes on the Second Amendment. Background checks for guns is a solution that has “...less disagreement...than other gun control measures” and Congressional members, like Rep. John Yarmuth of Kentucky, believe that the first control measure that is achievable is universal background checks (Johnson). Not only is background checks for firearm sales publicly supported and the most achievable solution, there is provable results showing that this does work in controlling gun