The Importance Of Gun Control In The US

A Target Worth Aiming At With an average of 4.3 million firearms being added to the United States each year, gun control is one of the most rapidly growing problems in our nation. The right to bear arms was the 2nd amendment in our Constitution; so obviously to our forefathers this has been a very important ideal since the beginning of our nation. Without implementing some sort of law in the coming years, all citizens will soon be in danger. According to the National Institute of Justice, approximately 414,562 firearm incidents occurred in 2011. This is much higher than the 331,618 incidents that occurred antecedently in 2008. Rates of homicides, injuries, and shootings will only continue to rise if this problem is not met with a solution immediately. Fortunately, since this issue has been around for hundreds of years, there are many solutions to choose from. The solutions that I will present will not only benefit our society, but also revolutionize the way that we look at and think of firearms. The most …show more content…
Leading the way in this intervention is California. This state has enacted more logical gun control laws than any other in the past few years. In states such as South Carolina, there is no waiting period to receive your firearm after you purchase it. You can walk out of the store with the gun you just bought the same day that you pay for it. In California, however, there is a ten-day waiting period between the time that you purchase a gun and the time that you receive it. I find that this is an essential aspect, because if a person is buying a gun with out of anger in order to hurt someone, these ten days often serve as a cool down period and cause them to rethink the situation. Whereas in states with no waiting period at all, a person could easily go in a store and walk out with a firearm still enraged that he just walked in on his wife in bed with another