Where Have All the Guns Gone? In today’s society guns are everywhere. News casts shower the public with stories about gun violence, movie heroes blow away the bad guys, cartoon characters brazenly shower each other with flying bullets, and children shoot each other in school rooms. When is it going to stop? Gun control advocates believe that the answer lies in more and more laws designed to restrict ownership of firearms to the public. …showed first 75 words of 2867 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2867 total…legal system to purchase weapons will prevent criminals from obtaining guns. The National Rifle Association spokesman, Jim Manown, put it this way, “If we are not investigating when a prohibited person goes into a gun store and tries to buy a gun, we are probably missing a situation where a violent criminal is attempting to acquire a gun for criminal purposes. Letting them walk away just sends them into the black market.” (qtd. in Crowder).