How does the Brady Bill work for me?

The Brady Bill was implemented on February 28, 1994. This law established a national 5 business day waiting period on handgun purchases through licensed dealers. It also required local authorities to conduct background checks on handgun purchasers. "Gun Control Facts." By James D. Agresti. Just Facts, June 10, 1999. Revised 6/27/08. http://justfacts.com/guncontrol.asp Brady Bill has saved many lives and put away would be criminals who wish to do harm. There were 9 criminals who tried to purchase a gun in gun shops legally but the Brady Bill stopped them cold in their tracks. As of December of 1998, an amendment to the Brady Bill replaced the five business day waiting period with a national "instant" felon ID system."Gun Control Facts." By James D. Agresti. Just Facts, June 10, 1999. Revised 6/27/08. http://justfacts.com/guncontrol.asp Because of the waiting period of five days, criminals had to wait to have their background checked for legalities sake just like the rest of us law abiding folk who wish to do no harm unto others. But we want to have protection in our homes. There is nothing more worth protecting than your livelihood whether it be your place of business that provides for your family and loved ones or keeping a gun in your home to protect against would be intruders. Having the Brady Bill implemented in 1994 has eliminated many people since from purchasing a handgun or rifle would would want to use it for nefarious plans.

The often repeated claim that 12 children per day die from gun violence includes "children" up to 20 years of age, the great majority of whom are young adult males who die in gang-related violence. Lampo, David. "Gun Control: Myths and Realities." The Cato Institute. May 13, 2000. 30 Jan 2010 http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=4706 I think it is amazing that we are told that twelve children die every day when in fact that most of those so called "children" are in fact legal adults who choose to participate in gun play with other "children" which is all tied into gang related gun deaths. What are the real estimates when it comes to gun related injury of children? How many children actually die from gun related deaths?

This all ties back into the Brady Bill that was encouraged by politicians on both sides of the spectrum. So how is it that today we cannot depend on our politicians to stand up fro what they believe in. We have to wait for Congress as a whole to make the decision on something that effect all of society. T he Brady Bill has made it possible for citizens to feel more safe. Knowing that our guns are not falling into the wrong hands just because they have the money to buy a gun. "Just because you want to, doesn't mean you can." I want to do lots of things with my life, quite possibly own a gun in the very near future. That doesn't mean that I can just hand over the cash and be done with it. I have to wait just like everybody else.

The Second Amendment, what does it say and how can we use it for gun control.

The Second Amendment: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a Free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” (www.usconstitution.net) so now that we know what the Second Amendment lets break it down into a clearer understanding of what it means. Most people that you talk to leave the first part “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a Free State” out, and jump right to “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms” the problem with doing this is they are not understanding that it is ok for people to bare arms, but the original intention of the Second Amendment “was about an obligation citizens owed to their government and communities to contribute to public defense.” ( Second Amendment Is misused by Opponents of Gun Control) so keeping that in mind, people who try to use the Second Amendment, as a way to say that they should have the right to bare arms, also need to remember that is not the original intent of the Second Amendment, to keep and bare arm for personal use but to keep and bare arms to protect their government, and their communities.
http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html#Am2
The Second Amendment is misused by Opponents of gun control, Saul Cornell. Current Controversies: Guns and Violence. Miller, Debra. Detroit: Greehaven press, 2009.

My View point on Gun control

My viewpoint on gun control stems from gun shows, I read an article called The Facts about Gun Shows which was published Jan 10,200, in the article they talk about “ persons selling firearms have been required to obtain a federal firearms license.” This also applies to gun shows, however if you are not a licensed gun dealer and you have a gun that you wish to sale you can do this with out having federal firearms license. So that means if you or I wish to sale a fire arm, we can put an ad in the paper and sale it without having to obtain a federal license, or contact the FBI. So we could also go to a gun show and sell the gun out of the back of our car if we wished because we are only selling one gun. The problem that I ran into while researching gun shows is that the article The Facts about Gun Shows provides statistics that say that “in a study of youthful offenders in Michigan only 3 percent of the youth in the study had acquired their last hand gun from a gun show” I am not sure how far I will be able to go with this point of view, so I think I would also like to somewhat concentrate on the Second Amendment, which states, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, because I feel a lot of people misunderstand exactly what that mean, and why it is important to read the whole Amendment and not just focus on those 10 words.
Kopel, David B. "The Facts about Gun Shows." The Cato Institute. January 10, 2000. 28 Jan 2010 http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=4835