Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act

The debate about whether or not more gun control laws should be implemented has been has come to the forefront of much of today’s current events. The dramatic increase of media coverage of school shootings, mass murder, domestic terrorism, and gang violence has attributed to this modern explosion of opinions, however the history of gun control and ownership is as old as the nation itself, dating back all the way to the signing of the Constitution. The Second Amendment of the Constitution…

In the state of California, possession of automatic firearms, and short-barreled shotguns are prohibited. Some people argue that owning a handgun increases a person's risk of being killed. Others say that guns aren't the problem, the people are. Managing the type of people that are allowed access to guns, through background checks, can reduce gun violence without taking the right to self-defense. Guns laws in California are much more restrictive compared to other states (ScienceNews). For…

We see almost every day, news media’s spreading news about acts of terrorist groups, police and civilians misusing firearms, and announcements of innocent deaths. But how are these stories connected? Well, one of the many connections it has is gun violence. Gun violence, as many of us know, has been a controversial topic for many Americans in the past and even now in the present. So being it has been an issue for so long, it has raised questions about whether or not our country should have…

enforcement have access to firearms and that they be kept out of the access to the public. With less firearms in the hands of the public, there is less margin for error of those who are untrained and inexperienced with the weapon. The Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act was passed in 1993, in an effort to decrease firearm-related deaths by mandating federal background checks on firearm purchases in the United States and placing a five day waiting period on transactions ("Gun Control", 2000).…

About half of unintentional fatal shootings are self-inflicted; and friends and family are to blame for most unintentional firearm deaths. According to the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence and the National Physicians Alliance, because our country has the highest concentration of guns this results in nine times the amount of accidental gun deaths and 89% of unintentional shooting deaths of children occur in the home. The US General…

wanting to limit the availability of firearms for purchase to help lower the amount of homicides and violent acts of crime in our country is not something new. This is shown to be the case in a paper written in 1975 by Douglas Murray, which is titled “Handguns, Gun Control Laws and Firearm Violence”. This paper takes the stance that gun control laws have no significant effect on rates of violence, and thus reasons that gun control laws as a whole are ineffective. Empirical data was compiled…

Given its name for Ronald Reagan’s press secretary, James Brady who was wounded in a presidential assassination attempt in 1981 (“Culture Wars in America”). This law was enacted in 1993 and imposed that all licensed gun dealers required a waiting period of 5 days before transferring a handgun to a non-licensed individual (“Culture Wars in America”). The five-day waiting period was set in place in order for law enforcement…

Gun sales and gun control Name Institution Guns and crime tend to be used synonymously. But are the two different aspects really associated? Do guns really cause crime and if they do are there laws governing gun sales, usage and control? These are some of the questions that pop up when tackling the issue of gun sales and control. The debate on the same topic is not something new. In 1924, Robert La Follete, who was a presidential candidate, stated that it was the American people’s…

regular occurrence, we must ask ourselves why people resort to gun violence instead of finding other ways to solve whatever problem they may be facing. The ATF estimates that there are 300 million guns in circulation while 20 years ago it was around 200 million. The GSS estimates that one-third of households have guns (Mantel 237). Every year, on average, 32,000 people die and 74,000 people suffer injuries related to gun violence and gun suicide in the US (Metzl 241). Alone in 2009, 326,090…

To ban all handgun ownership is not an option due to the second amendment, but unequivocal stricter gun control laws could make a great impact on the dangerously, negligent misuse of firearms in the neighborhoods and cities in the United States .In the article “Congress’s…