In the United States, guns should be licensed and registered, and most handguns should be banned. In the US, guns are registered, and licensed only in a few states. Also, there are only several states that ban some guns. There are just too few laws governing gun control in the United States. Guns are weapons, weapons are made to harm people, and people should ban guns. This does not mean ban every gun in the nation, the banning of handguns and assault rifles, the ones most commonly responsible for human casualties.
There are many statistics that support my view on gun control. The United States has more than seventy-seven million handguns within in the country. Statistically that would mean that approximately one out of four people living in this nation owns a handgun. The United States is one of only two countries - along with the Czech Republic - that does not have a firearm licensing system. The U.S. had the highest firearm suicide rate of all the countries surveyed seven per one hundred thousand people in 1995, nearly seven times greater than the average among other responding countries. Those are only few of the many reasons why the US needs to act now.
One of main reasons, that US government needs to make immediate actions is that the rates of gun death in this nation are way too high. The total firearm death rate in the United States in 1995 was 13.7 per one hundred thousand people, three times the average rate among other responding countries. Also, the third highest total death rate, after Brazil and Jamaica. The United States has the highest firearm death and suicide rates of all other industrialized countries. Those two facts alone are terrifying statistics. In Japan, guns are licensed and registered, and prohibits most handguns. Their gun death percentage reflects those facts. The ratio of gun death in the US to Japan is about 0.03% to 62.4%. The same is for Singapore, the ratio of gun death of the Us to Singapore is about 0.
