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  1. Most Americans agree on one thing — gun violence
  2. is a problem. According to one survey it's a pretty huge majority
  3. with only 6% who say it's not a problem at all.
  4. The question of how to tackle gun violence is where there's debate
  5. and at the heart of that debate is gun control and whether more laws are needed.
  6. But before we get into that let's debunk the myth that gun control
  7. is anything new. In the 1930s they banned machine guns in
  8. response to gangs. In the late '60s after the assassination
  9. of President JFK the Gun Control Act came in. It imposed
  10. regulations on the firearms industry and came up with a list of people who
  11. could be denied the sale of guns. And in the '90s President Clinton's Crime
  12. Bill introduced a federal ban on assault weapons but that expired 10 years later.
  13. And that goes back to the constitution. For Americans
  14. being able to own a gun is a basic right up there with free speech.
  15. The Second Amendment says "a well-regulated militia, being necessary
  16. to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear
  17. arms, shall not be infringed." So what does that mean? Well, for a couple
  18. of hundred years the understanding focused on that mention of a militia.
  19. It's really the idea that the states would serve as a check
  20. against a possible tyrannical government. Makes sense seeing as it was written
  21. after the War of Independence. And that idea still persists today but
  22. in 2008 there was a landmark Supreme Court decision that focused on the
  23. second half. It's known as the Heller case. The court
  24. ruled that a ban on handguns in the district of Columbia was
  25. unconstitutional and for the first time affirmed the
  26. right for individuals to keep arms for self-defence
  27. in the home. And that shift in thinking among
  28. Americans started happening well before 2008.
  29. The National Rifle Association —
  30. the US's main gun rights advocacy group — has also played a big part in that.
  31. In pushing the idea that guns are needed for self-defence.
  32. We can't get away from the fact that this is all super political
  33. and we see that when it comes to support for gun laws.
  34. Overall more than half of Americans favour stricter laws
  35. but when you break that down more than 80% of Democrats support more gun
  36. control compared to just 20% of Republicans.
  37. So what do US gun laws look like? Well, that depends on where you live.
  38. There are federal laws that apply across the whole country that for
  39. instance ban convicted felons, people with
  40. mental illness or kids under 18 from buying guns.
  41. But then there are state laws and each state has a lot of leeway to enforce
  42. their own regulations and they differ pretty wildly.
  43. In Massachusetts, a strongly Democratic state,
  44. you need a police permit and a background check to buy a gun.
  45. While Republican-controlled Texas recently passed a law allowing people to
  46. carry concealed handguns without any permit.
  47. So now we've got a Democrat in the White House and President Biden has declared
  48. gun violence a public health epidemic. His plans to tackle it include more
  49. money for community programmes to address some of the root causes of gun violence.
  50. On the legal side Biden wants to toughen up gun laws
  51. and make sure the ones that already exist are actually applied —
  52. including zero tolerance for rogue gun dealers.
  53. He also wants to tighten the rules on what are called ghost guns.
  54. These are weapons sold in parts and without a serial number so they can't be
  55. traced. Another big thing Biden wants to
  56. do is bring back the ban on assault weapons.
  57. Guns like the semi-automatic AR-15 rifle. According to a Newsweek investigation
  58. this type of gun was used in more than a quarter of the last
  59. 80 mass shootings. Like this year's attack in a supermarket in Boulder,
  60. Colorado, the Orlando nightclub shooting in 2016
  61. and at Sandy Hook Elementary School, where 20 children and six teachers were
  62. killed in 2012. But can he do it? As Democrats push for
  63. more gun control there are plenty of voters
  64. and politicians in Congress who say guns just aren't the problem.
  65. Now even though we always hear about how America is so divided over guns
  66. there's another way to look at it. Guns aren't going away — that's a
  67. non-starter in the US. But if Americans can find that common
  68. ground to look at policies they can agree on
  69. maybe that's where there's a chance of saving lives.
  70. If there's a news story or a topic you want to get your head around
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