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T.J. Weber
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Date Posted: 13:22:27 05/02/04 Sun
T.J. Weber
May 1, 2004
Summary
The essay, “Do kids have easier access to guns,” written by Mark DeAntonio, Director of Inpatient Adolescent Services at the Neuropsychiatry Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles, discusses the problems in our society with adolescents who have access to firearms. "The biggest difference between adolescents now and adolescents 20 years ago is the incredible access to firearms," DeAntonio said. "It's a very difficult, turbulent time and kids should not have this access to guns." He believes that adolescents with firearms is by far our biggest problem.
In 1975, according to government estimates, there were 55,000 gang members in the United States. In 1996, the U.S. Justice Department estimated there were more than 665,000 gang members and counted 31,000 street gangs, in all 50 states. De
Antonio argues that the point isn't that all youth killings are gang-related, but rather much has changed, and if anything, gun laws are more restrictive now than they were thirty years ago. Prior to the 1968 Gun Control Act, a firearm could be purchased through the mail. Even a child could purchase a rifle or shotgun this way. Virtually anyone could walk into a gun store and purchase a firearm. Nowadays you must be 18 years of age for the purchase of a shotgun or rifle and 21 to purchase a firearm other than a rifle or shotgun. Violation of these laws can include up to 10 years imprisonment
Work Sited Page:
DeAntonio, Mark. “Do kids have easier access to Guns?” Online posting. July. 1999.
Guncite. 14 Sep. 2003 http://www.guncite.com/.
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