Gun Control: Ak47

Guns are used all around the world, but fast and steady increase in crime and the fight for the right to own a hand gun introduced legislation for gun control, to try to reduce the crime in the United States. Guns are in their own nature dangerous weapons. The automatic assault weapon is one of these potentially dangerous weapons, which is used for military purposes only. This is no weapon that can be beneficially used. Leaving the sale of this firearm a potential threat; because they allow many unnecessary accidents to take place.

Guns have been part of the American tradition as protection, hunting or a sport, but the use of guns has changed significantly. Even Hunting has lost its sport with the use of the AK 47. Could it still be considered a sport when you can shoot off ten rounds a second at an animal? The animal doesn't even have the time to move to get the out of the danger. Bill Clinton stated a response to the National Rifle Association, "When they fought me on the Brady bill, because they said it would be so burdensome to hunters and sports people, and I said it wouldn't, and we won. We had evidence now: 500,000 people have been kept from getting handguns because they were felons, fugitives, and stalkers (Clinton 3)."

Although many people feel that gun control violates the second amendment "the right to bear arms", controlling distribution and sales and the registration of these automatic assault rifles is necessary because of the homicide rate involving guns and the violence by criminals using guns. There are over two hundred million firearms in the U.S. alone (Gun Control). Opponents of gun control, including the National Rifle Association, better known as the NRA, argue that the "right to bear arms" is guaranteed in the second amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America and licensing restrictions penalize respectable citizens, which they don't try to prevent criminals to use the rifle.

Controlling the sale and distribution of firearms is necessary because of the homicide rate involving guns. In 1993, the year before the ban went into effect, the 19 assault weapons banned by name under current law accounted for 8.2 percent of all ATF gun traces. The ban became effective on Sept. 13, 1994; from that date through November 1995, assault weapons composed only 4.3 percent of all gun traces--nearly a 50 percent decrease in deaths (Feinstein).

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