GUN CONTROL- AMERICA

USA has always been prone to Gun related issues especially violence from this medium. Gun is very common to own, though there are restrictions up to a certain limit in some states but majority of the states suffer from relentless use of 'Guns'. It has been estimated that US civilians own 270 million to 310 million firearms, and that 37% to 42% of the households in the country have at least one gun is a disturbing fact for a harmless citizen. The long history of USA concerning weaponry is a bright one in such a dark matter, ironically. According to Time magazine USA is the number 1 exporter of weapons in the world as well controlling more than a 50% market and the orders in 2014 jumped 35% i.e $10 billion to a whopping $36.2 billion. Anyways, the gun control laws are a little sluggish in implementation due to which this matter is getting out of hand, the Supreme Court allows the right to own a weapon for self defence but due to lack of monitoring, the Americans feel 'free' and own as much weapons as they want to satisfy their wants.

1. Gun laws are more stringent in California and in the northeast. States are ranked there on the restrictiveness of their gun laws. The States Of Arizona, Alaska and Mississippi have the weakest laws against Guns. 
2. Gun ownership is higher where gun laws are weaker (Montana and Alaska etc). About half of owners proclaim they own guns for protection , followed by hunting 32%. The states with lowest ownership of weapons per household are Delaware, Nebraska and above all California.
3. Gun-Related Deaths are more prevalent in the Southern States. More than 60% are suicides astonishingly, while about a third are homicides. Gun death rate per 100,000 People is up till 19%, which exists mainly in the surroundings of Los Angeles, Montana and Alaska where as the least deaths are in, not so surprising, states of California and Hawaii.

The dumb founding fact is that while the gun sales are alarmingly ticking up, the U.S homicide rate is behaving otherwise. From 10 Homicides per 100,000 people in 1990, now it is down to 5.4 Homicides. Even after that, more people die from guns than from car accidents. In 2016 there have been 1,622 accidental shootings, and sadly 515 children have been shot due to mere irresponsibility. 

Solution:
The debate of gun ownership has been part of the History of America since 1990. Those in favor produce the argument of self defence and hunting whereas those in opposition put forward the fact sheet of violence especially when concept of "Jihad"  is misused to kill thousands of people. So as the time of this article coincides with that of presidential race, let's overview what Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have to say to fix this crisis.

"DONALD TRUMP calls for concealed-carry permits in all 50 states; he supports stricter sentences for felons caught with firearms"

"HILLARY CLINTON supports a ban on assault weapons and the expansion of background checks to mental-health outpatients and domestic abusers"

The solution is simple as proposed by the respective candidates. Gun laws need to be amended for safety and that every state has to understand the fact that the rate of violence in a particular state is directly proportional the gun ownership of that state.