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Gun control, or firearms regulation, is the set of laws or policies that regulate the manufacture, sale, transfer, possession, modification, or use of firearms by civilians. [1] [2] Most countries allow civilians to own firearms, but have strong firearms laws to prevent violence.
The NRA reports several examples of program successes in which children who were in live situations where a gun was found lying around did exactly as the program instructed them to. [6] They say that a decline in accidental gun deaths dating from the 1980s is due to the program, a claim that is contested by safety experts.
Many gun control advocates have celebrated McDonald’s decision to charge the Crumbleys and hope it will set a precedent that requires parents to face legal consequences for failing to keep guns ...
Within hours of the shooting, a We the People user started a petition asking the White House to "immediately address the issue of gun control through the introduction of legislation in Congress," [5] [6] and the gun control advocacy group the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence reported that an avalanche of donations caused its website to crash. [7]
Experts explain why parents have a responsibility to talk to their children about firearms.
It’s a surreal view of a nation unable to move on from its own cycle of gun violence. Krista and Navada Gwynn are seen with silhouettes of their daughters, Navada and Victoria.
Research suggest that certain gun control policies have an impact on rates of gun violence in schools. For example, Anderson and Sabia find that Child-Access-Prevention (CAP) laws decrease the rate of students bringing weapons to school (by about 18.5%) and the rate of students being threatened with weapons at school (by 19%). [26] Ghiani ...
"Guns" is a non-fiction essay written by American writer Stephen King on the issue of gun violence, published in 2013. He wrote it after the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, elaborating on why he let the novel Rage (1977) and The Bachman Books (1985), the omnibus in which Rage also appeared, go out of print.