Effective Handgun Regulation

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Clearly, the issue of death by firearms and proposals for actions to reduce the frequency of such deaths is an important social issue to all members of American society. The writer looks at the proposals in the United States for actions to reduce accidental deaths by and adolescent use of firearms.

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"Most observers agree that access to handguns should be severely restricted for adolescents. Proposals to effects such restricted access, however, invariably involve regulation on the access to, security of, and use of handguns that affects adults in American society as well as adolescents. Most jurisdictions in the United States already have in place regulations designed to preclude the purchase of handguns or the unsupervised use of hand guns by adolescents. These regulations, however, obviously are ineffective as means of controlling the access to handguns by adolescents. Therefore, most proposals to correct this social problem involve the imposition of additional controls on the acquisition, security, and use of handguns by adults as a means of providing a more effective means of controlling adolescent access to handguns. It is at this point that such proposals run headlong into the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution and the powerful gun lobby in the United States."

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