Part 1 of Essay
“There are presently in excess of two hundred million guns in the United States, according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms” (Gottfried 13). Each year this number grows by four to five million. There are sixty to sixty-five million legal owners of one or more guns, and half of these legal owners have their ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... that they must look for guidance if not perhaps for answers. Gun violence claims over 40,000 American lives a year. Among all consumer products, only motor vehicles outpace guns as a cause of fatal injury, and guns will pass them by 2003 (Violence Policy Center). Their are many different methods in , such as federal gun control laws, increasing penalties for gun-related crimes, banning handguns, on the television, and different types of gun safety practices. Today there are 20,000 different types of gun co ....