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Gun control has been a hot topic for very long time. People on the anti-gun control side believe that gun ownership is a Constitutional right backed by the Second Amendment. The anti-gun believe that you should be able to posses and own any firearm. They also believe that gun laws only restrict the law abiding citizens. Pro-gun control believe that guns are the backbone to our crime problem. They also believe that gun laws help …

…'error rate' for the police, however, was 11 percent, over five times as high' ( Snyder p.50) ' It is therefore abundantly plain that the founding fathers recognized the type of danger incident to registration of arms; the second amendment seeks to curtail the possibility of widespread or politically selective confiscation' (Chaplain p.51). Thus, any type of gun control legislation, especially at the federal levels, appears to be at odds with the intent of the second amendment.