ON APRIL 20, 1999, Eric D. Harris, eighteen, and Dylan B. Klebold, seventeen, carried an arsenal of weapons into Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. With two sawed-off shotguns, a semiautomatic handgun, a semiautomatic carbine, and several...

The headlines could not be believed: two teenage boys had opened fire in their Colorado high school, killing 12 fellow students and a teacher. That incident at Columbine, on April 20, 1999, following a number of other shootings in schools and...

Many US states have legislated gun (firearm) laws, independent of existing federal firearms laws. Some have also created so-called assault weapon bans that are independent of, though often similar to, the expired federal assault weapons ban. The state...

DURING THE MOST recent political campaign, two snipers were on the loose near the nation's capital, ultimately killing ten and wounding another three persons. You would think that the murder spree would have propelled gun control onto the national agenda. But weapons of...

Galanda, Gabriel S. Indian Country Today (Lakota Times) 11-05-2003 By October, another 35,000 citizens successfully transitioned through the legal profession's summer rite of passage - the state bar examination. Each state bar association or board of examiners administers the test bi-annually, through authority...

“What is left for the supporters of restrictive gun control seeking an intellectual justification for their position? They are counting on a complete rewrite of American history [to downplay the centrality of guns in America].”...

Discusses the issue of gun control in the Untied States and examines the assault weapons ban. Provides a history of the second amendment and details efforts by the National Rifle Association to stop any revisions to it.

This essay relates to gun control and how it affects Canadian society.

Essay discusses the pros and cons of gun control.