Kristof’s views on the gun regulation laws in the United States are drawn to the negative due to the fact that they are not strict enough in his opinion. Another main point he had brought up in his paper was that politicians do not want to go up against the N.R.A. In light of the looser laws regarding to guns, children five to fourteen in the U.S. are thirteen times more likely to be killed by a gun than children the same age in other industrialized countries. He had stated that in Canada there are new gun regulation laws that have dropped the fatality by forty percent and in the past years since placing the law in effect there has been no gun massacres. After that he brought up the twenty-eight day waiting period and two person voucher agreement in Canada to buy a handgun. He then went on to compare the gun laws to automobile laws. Since the fifties car safety laws have increased greatly and now America’s death rate per mile driven has decreased by ninety percent. While the gun laws really have not gone through much change. Kristof suggests that a starting point for change would be to allow only one gun purchase a month per person, restrict the sale of high capacity magazines, universal background checks on all gun buyers, and also make serial numbers more difficult to erase. In Kristof’s paper he uses good reasons supported by evidence to persuade the reader that the gun regulatory laws are unsatisfactory and need to updated. Kristof’s paper is effective in persuading a reader to realize that the gun laws in the United States are to relaxed.