After seriously weighing my options and really thinking hard about it, I have decided to make my research question as follows:
How have views on gun control changed over time and how have they affected people across the United States?
While researching this topic on ProQuest Historical Databases, I came across an article about a rash of accidental deaths due to guns being easily accessed by teens and young children. This happened in 1990 and it’s amazing how 23 years later this is still prevailing trend. Over the course of decades there have been so many concerns about gun control and even today, nothing is being done to get illegal firearms off the streets so that incidents like those in the article wouldn’t keep recurring. In the article, the author discussed a story about a 15-year-old boy who got access to his father’s gun and shot himself in the head while claiming to be “playing”. Another story was about a 15-year-old boy who had his father’s loaded gun trying to joke around with his friends and shot himself in the temple, dying instantly. In this instance he too was “Just kidding around”. I can go on and on about preventative accidental shootings of kids who have access to guns, but the point still remains that it is still happening today. So what do we do? A question that seems so easy to answer, yet no one has successfully come up with real solutions to it.
