Gun Control

Part I:Introduction

The issue of gun control and violence, both in Canada and the United States,

is one that simply will not go away. If history is to be any guide, no matter

what the resolution to the gun control debate is, it is probable that the

arguments pro and con will be much the same as they always have been. In 1977,

legislation was passed by the Canadian Parliament regulating long guns for the

first time, restructuring the availability of firearms, and increasing a variety

of penalties . Canadian firearms law is primarily federal, and "therfore

national in scope, while the bulk of the firearms regulation in the United

States is at the state level; attempts to introduce stricter leglislation at the

federal level are often defeated".

The importance of this issue is...