Does stricter gun control laws, equal less violence and death rates in America?
“Gun control (or firearms regulation) is the set of laws or policies that regulate the manufacture, sale, transfer, possession, modification, or use of firearms by civilians (Wikipedia).” Some presume that this means banning guns. In actuality, gun control only acts to protect citizens through enforcing the appropriate use of firearms; it does not ban the weapon. By implementing stricter gun laws and regulations, there would be a large decrease in death rates and help prevent violence in America.
For instance, the United States Constitution Second Amendment declares that everyone has the “right to bear arms”. The United States Constitution was written with the
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For example, victims of mass shootings almost never have a method of self-defense when the attack happens. According to the data table from the Mass Shooting Tracker, there has been 397 shootings in 2017 so far. “1,516 mass shootings in 1,735 days” has resulted in “6,510 injuries and 1,719 deaths” (“The Guardian”). This data was compiled from January 1, 2013 to present. “Roughly 16,459 murders were committed in the United States during 2016. Of these, about 11,961 or 73% were committed with firearms” (FBI:UCR). If gun laws were tougher, there wouldn’t be as great of a need for weapons to be used in situations of self-defense.
Although gun control skeptics believe that gun control laws will not prevent criminals from obtaining guns or breaking laws, it will help lower the chances of more gun related incidents such as mass shootings. Furthermore, why do teens need hours of practice driving to obtain their driver’s license, but no one is required to take gun safety classes or practice using the weapon? Someone can walk into any gun shop and purchase a gun that day without being forced to have any prior practice or evidence of safe use with a gun. A car can be just as dangerous as any deadly weapon. Take the recent vehicle attacks for instance. The person that drove the vehicle into crowds of people killed just as many people as they could have killed with a gun. If everyone was required some sort of gun safety class or gun practice, there would be less gun
Trevor Burrus from Cato Institute's Center for Constitutional Studies showed how the use of guns for good are far greater than uses for the bad. “In the past 20 years, the cases of permit holders using their guns improperly are quite rare.”(Burrus 3). This is a problem for gun control because the valid arguable point for it is becoming increasingly smaller. This is also a problem for the media because they report vague negative gun usage rather than positive because a large majority of the media's reporters are liberal gun control advocates. Americans who concealed carry firearms are better off in a defense position rather than an unarmed civilian. “studies have found that Americans use guns defensively between 830,000 and 2.45 million times per year.” (Burrus 2). This is a problem because a very small percentage of gun related incidents make it to the news, therefore people think that there aren't as many firearm crimes than there is, and could potentially be unarmed in an emergency situation. Also this means that since there are this many people using guns defensively, there are people who die innocently because they are unarmed. From this, the government had make the laws that prevent people from being able to defend themselves in desperate defense
If gun control is regulated, then we will have less crime. Access to firearms makes killing easy, efficient, and impersonal, which increases the lethality of crime. Josh Sugarmann, the Executive Director of the Violence Policy Center has once said, "We recoil in horror and search for explanations, but we never face up to the obvious preventive measure: a ban on the handy killing machines that make crimes so easy.”Allowing untrained people to carry guns puts others at risk and it can result in self-inflicting injuries both by suicide and unintentional incidents. Gun violence in America kills more than 30,000 and injures almost 70,000 each year. Guns can be misused and abused, which is why gun
Using this definition, a 2016 study published in the journal Violence and Victims reported that 292 mass shooting incidents took place worldwide between 1966 and 2012; nearly one-third of these were in the United States.”(DiLascio, 2017). The statistics are the answer to whether or not limiting firearms in The United States will help in the overall goal of limiting firearm violence. Other Countries such as England and Japan have more regulations on firearms and it limits the firearm related murders in those Countries. “Have some of the tightest gun control measures in the world, also feature some of the world’s lowest gun homicide rates (per 100,000 people, 0.04 killings and 0.03, respectively).The United States, by contrast, has a rate of 3.42 gun murders per 100,000 people-100 times greater than England or Japan” (Ballaro, 2016). Over the years gun crime has decreased a lot. “ Although gun crime declined steadily throughout the 1990s and early 2000s-thanks in part, perhaps, to the assault weapons ban still in force at the time-it increased sharply in 2005 and has been on a steady rise since. In 2008, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, a bipartisan group of 300 US mayors, found that homicides from handguns were highest in states with the most lenient gun laws” (Ballaro,
Gun control should not exist at all in the United States. Mass shootings have almost become seen as normal event in the United States. What people do not understand is that gun control is not the answer; there are countries with little to no control that have fewer shootings. According to The Washington Post,Finland is ranked number 4 in countries with the most guns despite that they only had 24 homicides by firearm (“Gun homicides and ownership by countries” n.pag.) . In the article Did Gun Control Work In Australia “it is shown that gun control has reduced the problems but it still has not completely got rid of all firearm deaths”(Matthews n.pag.). The number of murders, homicides, or suicides do not go up due to people just owning more guns. Clayton Perry, a staff writer at the University of Maine, even points out “Stricter gun laws were in place during the Assault Weapons Ban between 1994 and 2004, but that didn't stop the shooters at Columbine in 1999 ”(Perry n. pag.). In Iceland, thirty out of a hundred people own a gun and they have zero homicides caused by guns a year(“Gun Homicides and ownership by country” n. pag.). In this day and age, everything is unpredictable, guns are a form of protection for everyone and there should not be restrictions on protection. The U.S. Department of Justice released a data brief that states, “ On average in 1987-92 about 83,000 crime victims per year used a firearm to defend themselves or their property”(Rand BJS Statistician n. pag.). The National Sheriffs Association released that the average police response time is at eighteen minutes while the average school shooting only last twelve minutes (“Embracing Technology To Decrease Response Time” n. pag.). Gun control should not exist because other countries do fine without it , high gun ownership has no link with increasing death rates , and guns are not harmful when instructions are followed.
Gun control is a law that controls how guns are sold and used, and who can own them. Allowing people to possess and use a gun with legal documents in the United States is legal. There have been arguments on whether or not is should be legal to own a gun as some people see it as beneficial and others do not. It is believed that guns are beneficial to have, and they are there because we need to be able to protect ourselves. We should not allow the government to have power over gun control for many reasons including the loss of tradition of hunting, not being able to protect ourselves, and simply because of the second amendment.
There are currently over 200 million guns in use, which means obtaining a gun in the United States mustn't be that hard. If gun usage could be regulated more by banning certain unneeded weapons to the public and requiring a more in depth background check, than miss usage of guns, and deaths caused by them would decrease. However, already existing laws need to be enforced and harsher penalties for those who don't follow the laws. If the country would agree on certain legislation for gun control, than The United States could be a much safer
Stricter gun laws are required to reduce casualties caused by gun violence. People have right to own guns base on the 2nd amendment of the U.S constitution. According to “Background on Gun Control” 91% percent of Americans say that there should be least minor restrictions on gun ownership. However, research shown that children who died after being accidentally shot has increased from 140 in 1996 up to 259 in 2012 every year. In my opinion, the U.S government should increase stricter gun regulations on background check; mental examination and safety trainings to prevent misfiring that cause death and injuries among our friends and family.
A few weeks ago, on October 1st, 2015, eight students and a professor were shot and killed by 26 year old Christopher Harper-Mercer in a mass shooting at Umpqua Community College. The shooter also shot and killed himself. The world has become a much different place than it was a hundred years ago. Technology has been increasing faster than at any other time on this planet. But with this change, it seems as if the sanity of people is at an all-time low. People now react quicker to hard times or a bad situation. The creation of the internet, especially with social media, is the perfect tool for humiliating people more than was ever possible before. This humiliation has caused an increase in violence, especially in gun violence. Something
To make America safer we need to be stricter on gun control laws. Although some people prefer less strict, because they feel like it limits their rights. Legislators need to update the background check system, enforce mandatory courses and safety training.
Gun control refers to laws that regulate the owning, selling, and use of firearms. Gun control has been a topic of debate in the United States since the beginning of the country. There are two sides to the debate, those who think that guns should be regulated more and those who believe that further regulation is unnecessary. People who believe gun control is unnecessary use the constitution and other supporting documents to back up their claim, saying that the second amendment protects their right to own a firearm unrestricted by the government. They also use statistics from the U.S and other countries to show that stick gun control laws don’t deter crime and in some cases makes crime worse. They also show that increased gun control laws don’t
Five women a day are killed in the United States by guns; in fact, there is a 500% increase that a woman is at risk of being a victim of gun violence if there is a gun present during a family conflict. If this does not state the obvious that this country needs more restrictions on gun control then I do not know what to tell you. For the people who keep firearms on hand everywhere they go, state that they need them for self-defense but guns are rarely used for self-defense purposes. The amount of suicides in the United States would decrease with more restrictions on gun control. As a matter of fact, when gun ownership went down in the United States, so did suicide rates. “American children under age 15 were nine times more likely to die of a
This is a questions which is debatable beyond New Jersey. No I do not believe that stricter gun laws in New Jersey will help prevent shooting on college campuses.
Gun control is the set of laws or policies that regulate the manufacture, sale, transfer, possession, modification, or use of firearms by civilians. The debate over gun control has come up for debate across the United States after two mass shootings rocked the country. The common argument for gun control is that gun control works. When simply in reality that argument is invalid because when you limit guns or even take them away in some cases the murder rate rises. Not only does gun control not work but the laws are racist and gives the government to much power. The idea of gun control infringes on the rights of citizens and takes away their safety.
Gun control is a means of restricting the types of firearms sold, and controlling who can purchase them. Too many innocent lives are affected by persons who use weapons for the wrong reasons. The possession of such dangerous weapons is to be taken more seriously.
Gun control is a term used meaning the restriction of guns that can be bought and used. Gun laws also place regulations and rules to the people who possess them and provide