There is an average of 35,000 deaths per year, or 90 deaths a day caused by a gun. About half of all families in the U.S. own a form of a firearm.
Many people keep guns to protect themselves and there families.
People also use them for hunting an target shooting. The federal Government prohibits drug attics, people with felony charges that they have been convicted for, and the mentally unbalanced people from owning firearms. Existing gun control laws are very hard to enforce, because of the large number of firearms in private hands. Some communities have banned the ownership of guns in their towns. Backers, argue that there is to many accidental shootings and that guns may fall into the hands of children.