Thesis: We should have gun control in laws because it will avoid a lot of problems. Gun control is a very good idea. Not only does this avoid all of the above, but it also prevents many accidents. Accidents involving innocent people and especially children. As Norman L. Lunger explains in his book Big Bang: The Loud Debate over Gun Control. He writes: “Saving lives through gun control. It's a common topic on the evening news: a child picks up a loaded gun and it suddenly goes off, killing the child or a bystander. In Florida, two young boys found a shotgun under a bed at their grandparents' house. A six-year-old pulled the trigger and a five-year-old fell dead. In Illinois, two teenagers found a handgun in their grandmother's apartment. The gun exploded in the hands of a sixteen-year-old boy, killing his fifteen-year-old cousin. In Michigan, a six-year-old boy found a handgun in a shoebox in the house where he lived with an uncle. He took the gun to school, took it out of his pocket and shot a girl in his first-grade class. She died on the way to the hospital. (Lunger, Big Bang: The Loud Debate Over Gun Control) As he shows, innocent children are killed by other innocent children simply because a gun was lying around. There's no way around it. Innocent children killed because there is no gun control. Not convincing enough? Lunger also states: “They note that guns claim the lives of approximately 30,000 people in the United States each year. Approximately six hundred of the victims are under the age of fifteen and approximately three thousand five hundred are between the ages of fifteen and nineteen. According to the Centers for Disease Control, a federal agency, guns kill a far greater proportion of children in the United States than in other industries....... middle of paper ....... A three-day waiting period of one or five days to purchase a gun could prevent many suicides that occur during a period of deep but temporary depression. A waiting period could also deter people from buying a gun in a fit of anger and using it to shoot someone. And a waiting period would allow authorities to check whether a gun buyer has a history of mental problems or is subject to a protection from abuse order - red flags that are often missed by the federal system of instant control. Another helpful gun control law would be one that would require new gun buyers to take a gun safety course. States that have such laws have found that they help reduce the risk of accidents caused by firearms. By involving these laws, we can significantly reduce the mortality rate. But if that doesn't concern you, imagine if someone close to you killed. Now imagine if you could prevent this by controlling guns... would you do it?