Gun Control

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This paper explains, compares and evaluates gun control in the United States, Netherlands, Great Britain, Switzerland and Japan. The author concludes that in the United States guns are so much a part of the culture that gun control alone is not enough. The United States must combine sensible gun laws with efforts to change the culture that values easy access to guns for gaining personal power.

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"The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution says,
"A well regulated militia, being necessary for the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." The United States Constitution was completed in 1787, not long after the citizens of the newly-formed country had formed militias, taken up their personal arms, marched to war, and won a revolutionary war to create one of the most powerful and influential countries ever seen. It is hard to imagine our Constitution being written without that amendment, given the times in which it was written."

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