Gun Control Gun control has been a very controversial media topic throughout recent years, which has mainly been sparked by the rash of unfortunate school violence, such as the Littleton, Colorado shootings at Columbine High School in April of 1999. Fourteen students and a teacher lost their lives in the massacre, which gave gun control topics that had been sitting in front of Congress some very heated momentum. With the media's constant display of the tragedy …showed first 75 words of 724 total…

…showed last 75 words of 724 total…control advocates should overlook all of their harsh decisions before they make laws that will inversely affect hard working, law-abiding citizens that were guaranteed the right to keep and bear arms by the constitution in the days of this countries founding. If they want to decrease the crime rate they should go to the source first, the criminals themselves and actually punish them instead of just giving them a slap on the wrist. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**