Cause And Effect On Gun Crime

Second of all, there is a twin relationship between guns and crimes which means the numbers of guns are related to the crime rate in the United States (“Crime Reduce”). This explains that if we are able to reduce the number of the guns, we also are able to reduce the number of the crime from the United States. Therefore, if we can reduce the number of crimes, this society would become safer place where we can be relaxed and happy without worrying about dangerous situation that you might encounter. It is beneficial for everyone. In addition, it is the fact having guns in the house does not one's house safer place to live in. According to the researches, having a gun in the house create 2.7 times greater risk of homicide and a 4.8 greater risk

There are an abundance of causes and effects in the way guns are used, purchased, and sold – legally or illegally. A few causes include how guns are kept (with a safety and locked away or not), and in the way guns are obtained. The effects of these acts are, peoples state of mind, and the criticisms law enforcement may receive. Thought of as technical and firm, the laws about guns can easily be bypassed by criminals and people who are not in the right frame of mind.

Current Gun Control regulations do not deter violence and crime. It has been shown that places that have relaxed their gun control laws have a higher crime and death rate. Data proves that homicide rates “[...] among the metro areas whose principal city is in a state that requires some form of permit to purchase a gun, is 4.32 per 100,000 residents, compared with 5.74 among cities in no-permit states”(Bailey). This is evidence that there is a correlation between gun control and death rates. It is also proven with statistical evidence that places with the least amount of gun control have the most violence. Statistics show that “‘none of the states with the most gun violence require permits to purchase rifles, shotguns, or handguns. Gun owners are also not required to register

Many people around the United States are victims of shootings, whether they be school shootings, mass shootings, or Terrorist Attacks. There seem to be two common ideas either support or oppose gun control. In the United States, many gun control supporters believe that guns are the reason mass shootings happen while gun control opponents believe that people are the cause of mass shootings. But they both want the people in the United States to be safe, whether that is from government tyranny, mass shootings, gun violence, or mental health.

Throughout the years, gun violence is increasing dramatically. Mass Shootings are becoming more frequent, suicides are now mostly caused by a gun to the head, and crimes are being involved with guns. Somehow minors and criminals are gaining firearms. The government isn’t telling us the real story. They claim that they have very strict laws, well it turns out they don’t. There are so many things that the government hides from the public’s eye. Criminals get their way (hiding from the government) and they gain access to guns of their choosing. From pistols to machine guns, to rocket launchers. In this essay, I will explain to you how criminals are getting their way, causing so much gun violence across the United States, and how the government is doing nothing about this.

The addition of strict gun control laws can reduce deaths and crimes rates by firearms drastically, as gun ownership decreases and new regulation can prevent horrific accidents from happening. Canada serves as a perfect representation of the benefit of strict gun control laws and how they help improve crime and death due to firearms in America. Canada has two main laws concerning firearms, the Firearms Acts and the Criminal Codes. The Firearms Acts pertain to the right to possess firearms, the means of transportation, and offenses due to violations of the act. This act specifies the rules of permits, such as where one can keep the gun, what happens to the gun in certain situations (like the death of an owner), and more. The Criminal Codes pertain more towards the three categories of firearms, non-restricted, restricted, and prohibited firearms. The Criminal Codes go in depth of what guns belong in what class and much more (Ahmad). The United States however does have laws pertaining to guns, such as Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act and Gun Control Act. The Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act mandates federal background checks of those who purchase firearms, although Canada has more of a focus on mental health and addiction (“Brady Law”). Similar to the Firearms Acts and Criminal Codes, the Gun Control Acts cover a similar basis of the idea of regulating firearms (“Gun Control Act”). While Canada and the U.S have similar laws for firearms, Canada has more stricter and beneficial laws, and the evidence shows how that has effects on firearm deaths, “According to 2010 data available at Statistics Canada, over the past thirty years firearm-related homicides have continued to decline. Moreover, ‘[m]uch of the decline in firearm-related homicide since the early 1980’s can be attributed to a decrease in homicides involving a rifle or shotgun.’ According to 2011 data, [t]here were 158

Even though evidence proves otherwise, many people claim the large quantity of guns in the United States are culpable for the country’s murder rates. While the United States population and number of guns have steadily gone up since 1994, the rates of all different crime types have drastically gone down (Planty). Over the last nineteen years, almost fifty million guns have been added to the US, yet firearm violence has been reduced by more than two thirds (Federal Bureau). This completely contradicts the statement that more guns equal more violence. To compare the two, solely based on these statistics, it looks as though the upsurge of guns and armed citizens has only led to less violence. Another example, that disproves this, is the Firearm Act of 1997. After a school shooting, the United Kingdom passed this act banning almost all of their guns. That year, the UK had initially recorded seven hundred and thirty-four homicides. While only steadily increasing, by the year 2002, they had a recorded one thousand and forty-one homicides (Osborne). This act did not prevent homicides at all, and as a matter of fact it only created more violence. The District of Columbia is another case in point on how the lack of guns does not mean there is any lack of violence. DC has a 3.6% gun ownership ratio of the people living there, ranking it the lowest in the Unites States. At the same time, DC has the highest gun deaths and firearm robberies in the Unites States. The District has a

With the crime rate commonly believed to be detrimental to the safety of society, one might assume to inflict stricter gun control laws. But, just how effective are these laws in reducing the amount of crime committed? As examined by Kleck and Patterson (2006), the rationale for gun control must first include the assumption that the availability of guns entails a significantly positive correlation on violence rates. But, Kates and Mauser (2006) studied the aggregate relationship between gun control and lower crime rate and found no evidence of this correlation.

I. Summary In More Guns, Less Crime, John R. Lott Jr. explores the issue of gun control and the counterarguments of a gun friendly society. Lott looks at gun control laws throughout several different states and counties in the United States, and he looks at other countries’ gun laws, such as Jamaica, Switzerland, and Britain. Furthermore, Lott approaches the issue from both an academic and practical standpoints, as More Guns is filled with both statistics and real life encounters. All of his different types of research come to the same startling conclusion: the more guns a society has, the less crime in that given society.

I chose gun violence because my uncle got shot with a gun a couple of times in his

Further, despite the fact that gun ownership in the U.S. increased enormously during the 1990’s, there was a consistent, dramatic reduction of criminal violence. In fact, homicide and violent crime have plunged over the last 15 years. Considering that 18 of 25 countries surveyed had an increase of violent crime, America’s large decline is impressive. Moreover, Norway, Finland, Germany, France, and Denmark also have a high rate of private gun ownership, and the murder rates in these countries are as low as or lower than developed nations with less gun ownership (Kates & Mauser, 2007).

Britain is known to have “… some of the strictest gun control laws in the developed world” (Watson, 2013). Britain enacted the first Firearms Act in 1920, just after World War I, in hopes that it would reduce violent crimes and bring safety to British citizens. This act did not ban firearms, it added restrictions to buying them. As time went on, more Firearm Acts came into effect in Britain and they only got stronger. By 1977, the Firearms Act banned all handguns in Britain, much like what Chicago did in 1982. Although Britain was looking for peace and safety by enacting these Firearm Acts, what Britain experienced was quite the opposite. By 2009, Britain was known as the “…’most violent country in Europe’” (Hawkins, 2014). Their violent crime rate was significantly higher than that of the United States. In fact, they had the highest crime rate in the

Gun control and restrictions on acquiring firearms has been a topic that has been disputed heavily in NSW since the 1980s. Similar to various other nations, Australia has seen a number of high profile shootings, resulting in a tightening of gun control laws. One may believe by instinct that relaxing current restrictions on acquiring firearms would lead to more crime, as more guns are readily available. This paper will explore this debate, to investigate if an increase in guns will truly lower crime levels.

Europe is ascending in crime rate while America is descending. The reason for this is because Europe has banned a lot of defence weapons resulting in robberies and mass shootings to easily happen. Whereas in America guns are increasing and because of that homicide and robbery rates have decreased (Otero, Glen). This shows that banning guns causes countries economy to drop because people don’t want to be in danger constantly so they riot and protest against the government. There have been many cases of mass shootings have taken place in Europe. In 2017 there were over 300 shootings in Sweden only ( Gangs of Stockholm). Now think about that. Over 300 in just one country. If Europe would allow guns like America

The ideology of gun ownership and gun control in the United States, that among the categories in crimes, gun violence is the most common type of crime that occurs on a regular basis in the United States. (Kopel 1). There have been many studies whether it is on the ideology approach, self – interest theory, racism, and public opinion to try and understand the relationship between gun control and violent crime. As the world’s richest and most developed nation, the U.S. is the leading country with the highest gun violence cases (Daniel 2). The U.S. government has tried in many cases to get a handle on the issue with past policies, such as the Brady Bill, which was passed by Congress in 1993. It mandated federal background checks on firearm purchasers in the U.S. and imposed a five day waiting period on purchases (Daniel 3). Also, trying to find correlation between the 1977 Canadian Law and the U.S. law on uniform gun control.