I. Thesis: Crimes and guns seen to go hand in hand with one another, but are these two really associated? Do guns necessarily lead to crime, and if so do laws passing restrictions on firearms ownership and use stop the crimes or protect the citizens? Let's take a look back in the past to see some of the causes of gun control laws.
             II. Cause: In the early 1990's the number of people killed or wounded by firearms soared.
             A. 1998 there were a total of 30,708 deaths from guns
             B. Accidental shooting deaths are most commonly associated to when a child finds a hand gun in their home.
             a. "Firearm injury is the second leading cause of non-natural death in childhood and adolescence. ("Firearms Tutorial").
             b. a home were a gun are kept it is 43 times more likely to kill a member of the household than an intruder ("A Case for Gun Control").
             C. Hunter mistake someone else for some kind of game.
             D. in households with guns it is five times more likely for someone in that household to commit suicide ("Firearms Tutorial")
             III. Effects: the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act.
             @ This act requires a waiting period for the purchase of a handgun as well as a system for background checks to ensure against the possession of guns by criminals ("Firearms Tutorial").
             B: does not apply to the many guns that are bought illegally on the black market
             C: "So far this law had not been associated with the overall reductions in homicide rate or suicide rate ("Firearms Tutorial").
             a: due to the fact that criminals do not purchase the guns they use for the crimes legally.
             D: drop in firearm fatalities though. Some believe it is due to a decrease in unemployment rates
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