To protect children instead of guns, the report calls for a number of policy enactments, including mandatory gun registration and licensing, safe storage laws and trigger locks, consumer safety regulations, and limits on the number of handguns a person can purchase in a given period of time. Vicky Tarumoto, a second-year student at UC Santa Cruz, is also concerned about the increasing threat of gun violence because of her younger brother, Tony, who is ten years old. It happens on such a regular basis, and that is really terrifying. Still, according to Ward, people do not fully understand the magnitude of the problem in America. Eighty-four thousand lost child lives since 1979 is enough.
Polls say 'enough'.