Implications of Gun Control

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Implications of Gun Control

In the United States, Guns are regarded as a sacred symbol which motivated it towards achieving its independence from Great Britain. However, the increase in the latest mass shootings has led to the activation of the gun-control dispute in the United States. The main problem is gun violence which can be defined as the use of firearms to cause havoc and terror through death or harm to groups of people or an individual. Numerous lives have been lost due to gun violence thus creating national disasters in the United States. The key agenda for this issue is in the possession as well as giving out of the unlicensed guns. Among the most developed countries, the United States ranks highly when it comes to cases of gun violence the most victims being school-going children have there have been so many mass school shooting in the united states. This paper will look at the implications of gun control and how having tough laws on gun ownership will help reduce gun violence.

One of the implications of gun control will be that the guns will be kept out of the wrong hands. The legislations on the gun controls have frameworks and strategies that are put in place to ensure that guns will be kept out of the wrong hands. These frameworks and strategies would ensure that there are an expansion and thorough checks done on the guns before sale and change of ownership to ensure that the illegal guns are kept out thus reducing gun and gun-related violence. Gun control ensures that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) are empowered and ensures that all dealers in gun both the public and private sellers obtain registration papers, licenses, allow for mandatory background checks on their warehouses and stores and to validate where there will be the possibility of managing and tracking of the firearms once they have been sold. Their flow and change of hands CITATION Mia18 l 1033 (Miah, 2018).

The gun control laws also aim at dealing with guns and gun-related violence by having effective control when managing mental health treatment. One of the reasons for the increase of guns and gun-related violence in the united states was the lack of proper mental treatments where the mentally retarded individuals owned guns illegally. This program is facilitated and made possible by the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) checks and follows up the background of offenders and validates them to ensure whether it is fair or not for them to own a gun. This information is relayed by the Bureau of Justice Statistics which shows that more two million guns have been prevented from possession by wrong hands through such measures.

Gun control will also lead to the formation of a gun safety technology that will need to be adopted by the states and the federal executive. This gun and safety technology is required to prevent any occurrence of gun violence in the future. The limitation or reduction of gun ammunitions that can be possessed by citizens is an effective idea that will help in minimizing the number of guns and gun-related violence. A decrease in the number say from 100 round ammunition to 10 round ammunition is effective in reducing the number of causalities in case of any gun or gun related attacks. This technology to be embraced by the states and the federal executive will ensure these measures are implemented further adding to the safety of the people.

Guns control will also have a significant impact on the way law enforcement is done. Guns control laws mandate that there be an effective and efficient background system for checkups and follow-ups. This is mandatory to ensure that guns are poses by genuine people and that the guns do not land on the hands of criminals who can take the opportunity to harm innocent lives. The implication, therefore, is an additional funding and an effective system that ensures that these laws are implemented. There is also the need for political goodwill to support the enforcement since the background routine checks require additional support to achieving the required results.

Gun control will be effective and have a significant role in helping reduce gun violence in the united states. CITATION Goo18 l 1033 (Goodman, 2018)However, for this to be effective there is a need for the national and federal authorities to strictly and effectively implement Gun control would lead to a significant reduction in the gun-related violence in the United States. This would require the federal and national authorities to strictly implement the existing gun control laws as well as a formulation of additional comprehensive legislation that would control guns in the United States and make the nation safe. Having tough law on the ownership of guns as the gun control stipulates will ensure that guns and gun-related violence are reduced in three main ways. The first steps involve the intensive background checks by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) will ensure that all guns are licensed and can be tracked to the owner and this reduces the number of guns that fall into the wrong hands such as criminals who can use it to carry out violence. The second way is that gun control facilitates the development of effective law enforcement by the local authorities who follow up on the gun sales and registration on the local levels in efforts to ensure that the guns do not land into unlawful hands and hence reducing gun-related violence. The third way involves the limitations of the number of ammunitions available to gun holders. This will, in turn, reduce the number of victims say in case of gun violence CITATION New19 l 1033 (Newman, 2019).

When effectively implemented gun control measures, there will be a limited number of guns which are in illegal hands such as the criminals and extremists through proper monitoring, background checks help to ensure instances of a gun and gun-related violence such as mass shootings are minimized or reduced and the country is safe.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY Goodman, S. &. (2018). The American Gun Control Debate: A Discursive Analysis. In Discourse, Peace, and Conflict. Springer, Cham., 67-82.

Miah, M. (2018). Does a State’s Gun Control Legislation Significantly Influence the Number of Violent Crimes?

Newman, B. J. (2019). Mass shootings and public support for gun control. British Journal of Political Science, 1527-1553.