The Vox Article On Gun Control In America

A study on November 26, 2013 showed states with stricter gun laws also had more gun related murders (Mark Gius). One might believe gun control would decrease crime rates but according to this study, it proves just the opposite. 31 states have laws allowing citizens to carry concealed weapons. These states have a 24% lower crime rate and a 19% lower murder rate than the states with strict gun laws (David Lampo). Statistically, the states with more guns have lower crime rates than states with fewer guns. A 2007 Harvard study recorded that Norway had the highest rate of gun ownership in Western Europe and at the same time had the lowest murder rate. Denmark and Sweden also followed the same pattern as Norway with high gun ownership and low murder rates (www.theacru.org). The same study showed that Russia, a country that almost eliminated gun ownership, had a murder rate four times higher than the US and 20 times higher than Norway. These examples show that America could increase or have the same amount of gun related deaths if gun laws are increased. Therefore, citizens need to recognize the repetitive failure of gun control in other countries to understand how strict gun laws would jeopardize

Policymakers are constantly saying they need to lower crime rates in America. When looking at the numbers America doesn't have a significantly higher rate of crime compared to other developed countries. In fact, Canada has a 94% higher total crime rate per capita then America.”” There is not more crime in America, the crime is just much more lethal. When looking at violent crime due to guns America has a 288% higher violent crime rate then Canada.”” The main reason for the higher violent crime rate is the leisurely process of obtaining a firearm in America. In America, there is an average of 88.2 guns per 100 people, making it very easy to obtain a firearm. “”

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,

Did you know that in the United States almost 100,000 people are shot or killed with a gun in one year? Ten thousand, five hundred and twenty-seven people die a year in handgun related incidents in the United States. This number, by far, outweighs the number of gun related deaths in countries such as Sweden, Great Britain, and Japan, which number thirteen, twenty-two, and eighty-seven, respectively. What is the reason for such drastic differences in numbers? Sweden, Great Britain, and Japan are all countries that have stricter gun control laws than the US. Mind you, these are just the number of deaths caused by handgun related incidents; however, that isn’t counting the thousands of deaths caused by

The Australian (2013) reported about a man who shot at workers at the naval headquarters in Washington and killed 12 innocent people. It also says that in America the murder rate related to gun shooting is three times more than other countries. These all are just due to easier gun laws and more access to them. As the U.S President Barack Obama said “The main difference that sets our nation apart, what makes us so susceptible to so many mass shootings is we don’t do enough, we don’t take the basic common sense actions to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and dangerous people.” (The Australian , 2013)

The article I chose to read and summarize is called “The Current and Future State of Gun Control in the United States”. This article mainly focuses on, obviously gun control, but also the fact that there have only been a few changes to the law regarding firearms in the last century. Several laws and situations involving gun control are mentioned throughout the article as well. This article touches on many topics, it touches on federal laws, state laws, the courts, policy options, registration to own a firearm, and felons.

The United States honestly have just too many guns per people. If Americans wasn’t as heavily armed maybe these shootings would lessen or maybe even stop. In the article, Do Countries with Stricter Gun Laws Really Have Less Crime or Fewer Homicides? wrote by Nicholas Gerbis states that the U.S. has the most

Gun violence has become a great problem for our society in the recent years. Data from Every Town Research has shown In their article Gun Violence by the Numbers “...that on an average day, 93 Americans are killed with guns...For every one person killed two are injured” Many will deny that gun violence is a problem, but it is. After more research I have found that over 62% of the deaths are suicide, and just over 1,642 people killed were accidental. There is something wrong here, and something needs to change soon. If so many of these deaths are accidental, and suicides there must be something wrong in our society.

The United States’ homicide rate (5.9 deaths per 100,000 people as of 2005) is higher when compared to other countries: Sweden with 1.3, Canada with 1.5, and Australia with 1.3. To go along with these rates, America has a higher gun ownership with 39% when compared to Canada with 29.1%, Australia with 19.4% and Sweden with 15.1%. Many argue that these statistics prove the effectiveness of gun control. Fewer amount of guns equals less crime.

Most recently the country of Australia put a ban on all weapons and required its citizens to turn in for disposal millions of weapons that included family heirlooms, hunting weapons and personal protection weapons. In the years following this regulation, there has been a significant rise in the crime rate that is arguably the result of citizens being unable to protect themselves and deter criminals. Another country, Mexico, has far more strict laws on gun control than the United States and studies show that there were 10 gun homicides per 100,000 people in Mexico compared to the United States having 3 per 100,000 people (Chalabi). With just this bit of information, it can be deduced that more gun control does not solve the issue of deaths by guns or result in lowering crime

According to the 2010 study there were 31,672 fatalities due to firearms. The following year the number went up to 32,163. Homicides that are a result from guns are relatively high in the States and they take more than eleven thousand lives a year. According to Vision for Humanity, an initiative for the Economics and Peace, the United States is ranked 99 out of 162 countries in the 2013 global peace index, homicide rates and violent crimes are among the various criteria used to determine the ranking (Vision of Humanity). Mass shootings at work places, schools, shopping malls and places of worship are happening in an alarming frequency. While the Newtown shooting is one of the horrific ones, it certainly isn’t the only one that happened in the last two years alone. There were several other mass shootings that took the lives of many all across America. While there are other significant problems in America that need our attention, in my opinion, increasing rate of Gun violence is the most significant problem in American that needs to be addressed.

The issue of gun violence has recently grown in importance worldwide. In 2018 so far, there has been around 9,000 injuries and 5,000 deaths due to gun violence. What has happened in society to cause this increase and what can be done to decrease gun violence? Many feel that there are not enough gun laws and others feel that no more gun licenses should be issued. All that anyone can agree on is that things need to change. The United States government can decrease gun violence by creating stronger background checks for all people applying for a license, educating people on gun violence, and creating equal gun laws in all fifty states.

The Orlando nightclub shooting in Florida on June 12, 2016 was the single largest massacre in U.S history, taking the lives of 50 individuals, including the shooter himself, and injuring 53 others. This is one extreme example of the gun violence that has been occurring in this country, but mass shootings like this and the one at Newton in 2012 are only a small part of our gun violence issue. The everyday gun violence that takes place in cities all across the United States claims the lives of thousands every single year. According to The Guardian, 33,500 civilians die each year because of gun brutality- “that’s about 1 life every 15 minutes” (Beckett). Between the years of 1999 and 2013, there were 464,003 gun deaths in the U.S, about 58% of them were suicides 37% were homicides. (ProCon.org) Gun violence and the consequences of that violence, have become a real and dangerous problem in the U.S , why else would the CDC list the United States as having the highest rate of gun violence out of all developed countries today? (Gale Opposing Viewpoints) This issue is not just attributable to a single factor, there are several that play an important part in why gun violence is such an issue in the U.S, namely laws and poverty; and in these causes we can also find solutions.

Co-founder Sean Davis the website thefederalist.com wrote an article about Gun Control. The credibility of the website decreases as the writer starts the article in a biased tone. The writer argues how the debate about gun control and cycling repetition of the same issues over and over again. That facts should be discussed rather than myths. “Never in my life have I been required to fill out federal form 4473 and have the cashier run a background check on me before being allowed to buy an onion.”As Davis states that he himself a gun owner where he discusses the comment Former Barrack Obama said about buying guns. ”Last March, President Barack Obama was asked about guns during a press conference, and he responded by saying, “It’s easier for you to buy a handgun and clips than it is for you to buy a fresh vegetable.” Ignoring for the moment that the president does not understand the difference between a clip and a magazine, his claim is not true (Davis.)” Davis sounds defensive as he explained why buying a gun is not easier than buying a vegetable. Where Davis claim, never in his life did he ever fill out the federal form 4473 and background check to be able to buy an onion at the store.

Why American people cannot stop their gun criminals? Nowadays, a lot of tragic gun shootings are happening in the US. For example, a gunman killed 58 people and 546 people injured by indiscriminate gun shooting on the Las Vegas in october 2017. In addition, a gunman killed 25 church members, including unborn child on the Texas in November 2017. These tragic cases are just part of gun shooting case in the US history. However, US government and most American people do not decide to do gun control.