use-gun,’ and as result murder someone else, themselves, or commit serious injuries. A strong argument can and is made for further controls on the prevailing sales of guns.There are some miscellaneous facts and statistics regarding guns and gun control, according to the FBI Uniform Crime Report, the percentage of violent crimesCommitted with a fire arm dropped in 1994 - - the same year that the Brady Law went into effect. This decline ended the steady increase in gun violence from 1985 to 1993. The firearm crime rate has continued to drop each year since the Brady Law. Most developed nations have crime rates equivalent to the U.S. but America’s rate of lethal and life threatening violence from assaults is 4 – 18 time greater due to the more frequent use of guns in crimes. The United States has the least restricted access to fire arms of anydemocracy in the world, and consequently, the U.S. also has the highest fire arm murder rate of any democracy in the world. America has up to 1,000 times as many hand gun deaths per year as other developed countries such as the United Kingdom, or Australia. During the Vietnam War, 58,000 American soldiers, Marines, Sailors and Airmen were killed. During that same time, firearms killed more than 70,000 people in the United States - -most handguns. Although gun manufacturers are trying to convince women that they need to buy a gun to protect themselves from random crime, the greatest threat to a woman comes from the people and guns within her own home. According to a study in the New England Journal of Medicine, a gun in the home is 43 times more likely to be used in to kill a family member or friend, than to kill an intruder. Guns are the only consumer product that is not subject to regulation by the Consumer Product SafetyCommission. There are no basic safety requirements imposed on the manufacturer of handguns. The design, manufacture and sale of vacuum cleaners is more thoroughl...
