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Gun Control In 1988, handguns killed 7 people in Great Britain, 19 in Sweden, 53 in Switzerland, 25 in Israel, 13 in Australia, 8 in Canada, and 8,915 in the United States. These figures are shocking and there doesn't seem to be a solution. Gun control is a problem that our country has got to face. ("Gun Control"). One of the most alarming issues dealing with gun control is juvenile violence. A large percent of crimes committed with guns are by children. No …

…problem of violence and arguably are almost completely separated from it. As long as people come in unlike sizes, ages, shapes, and temperament. If they diverge in their task for risk and their willingness and capacity to prey on other people or to defend themselves from perdition; and, above all, as long as some people have little or nothing to lose by spending their lives in crime, dispositions to violence will persist. (Polsby and Brennen).