For decades, the issue of gun control remains burning in the US. It is immensely challenging to find a universal solution to this problem because the attitudes to it are polar. Nonetheless, it is still possible to deprive the wrong people of access to guns. The present essay discusses the ways how to ensure that a person who purchases a firearm would not harm others for no reason. The debates on gun control could be observed in the clash between the Republican and Democratic parties. More precisely, the former opposes gun control and supports the Second Amendment of the American Constitution that provides people a right to bear arms for self-defense (Miller 286; Burton 351; Honeycutt and Davis 1; Church and Davis 1). The latter, on the contrary, act in favor of the restriction of gun control and believe that ordinary people should not be allowed to keep weapons (Newman and Hartman 1533; Fleming et al. 352; Yousaf 2794; Ryan
7). According to the survey conducted by the Pew Research Center, American citizens who identify themselves as democrats support gun restrictions (Schaeffer). Those respondents who characterize their political orientation as republican argue that society will benefit from less strict gun laws (Schaeffer). The opponents of gun control argue that the driving point for violence is not the permission to bear guns but education, income, mental health, and other factors. The argument of republicans has a logic behind it; however, such reasoning fails to solve the major problem the number of deaths caused by shootings. More precisely, in 2020 in the US, approximately two shootings per day took the lives of more than 500 people and injured more than 2500 people (Budgar). As President Joe Biden puts it in one of his speeches, the current situation with gun control and violence in the US is an international embarrassment (Zurcher).