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What Does America Need to Fix the Gun Control Problem?  

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Tamara Pulis Tim Wall English 1213 29 March 2005 What Does America Need to Fix the Gun Control Problem? Gun control is hardly a new issue in America, much less in American politics. Ownership of guns is extraordinarily widespread in the United States, and has been for some time. Since the late 1950s, the share of American households reporting at least one firearm has remained fairly constant at just under 50 percent (Gun Control Debate 959). This shift in the character of ownership has taken place against a complicated legal backdrop, the basic feature of which at the federal level is the Gun Control Act of 1968 and the Brady Crime Prevention Act passed in 1994 (Cohen). Far outnumbering federal regulations are the various local and state laws that have long been the principal source of firearm control in the United States. People for gun control think that the best way to fix the...

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