Why Guns Don T Kill People

The individuals that agree with gun control often base their argument on the statistics of gun related deaths in the country, often times they do not state whether or not these include intentional or accidental deaths. They also do not take into account whether or not that the deaths happen solely because of the guns. Guns cannot kill people, the people with guns kill people, but if they really wanted to kill someone not having a gun does not effect whether or not it happens (NRA). Inanimate objects do not ever kill anyone and guns classify as inanimate objects. According to statistics, out of 4.3 million non- lethal violent crimes a year only 8 % involved guns (U.S. Congress 4). Often activists for gun control call for stricter

Gun violence has been around for centuries and there have been many mass shootings, homicides and suicides. There is always the argument on “do guns kill people” or “do people kill people”? What people really need to be looking at is the problem which is people stocking up on guns and not knowing how to properly handle them and all the mass shootings that are taking place. As a country, people need to be coming up with solutions instead of doing nothing.

One of the main topics of debate is whether or not gun laws actually correspond with lower murder rates. “The average annual gun death rate ranged from almost 3 per 100,000 in Hawaii to 18 per 100,000 in Louisiana. Hawaii had 16 gun laws, and along with New Jersey, New York and Massachusetts was among states with the most laws and fewest deaths. States with the fewest laws and most deaths included Alaska, Kentucky, Louisiana and Oklahoma.” (CBSnews.com). These statistics can lead one to believe that more gun laws equate to lower death rates. What these numbers prove is that some gun regulations help lower death rates. However, what gun control activists would have you believe that a full on gun ban would lower these numbers more. This is not the case as evident in the following, “During the years in which the D.C. handgun ban and trigger lock law was in effect, the Washington, D.C. murder rate averaged 73% higher than it was at the outset of the law, while the U.S. murder rate averaged 11% lower” (James D.

Although the laws of gun control are more and more strict, the rate of gun violence and gun crime in the United State are not going down. Many people think gun control is not the answer for gun violence. For example, the tragedy at Virginia Tech may tell us something about how a young man could be driven to commit terrible actions, but it does not teach us very much about gun control. So

Some say that more gun control laws would reduce gun deaths. The website, procon.org, Should More Gun Control Laws Be Enacted, February 26, 2016, says, “There were 464,033 total gun deaths between 1999 and 2013” (p 6). Of these deaths, 58.2% were suicide, 37.7% were homicides, and 2.2% were unintentional. Guns are the leading cause of death by homicide with 66.6% and by suicide with 52.2%, and are the 12th leading cause of all deaths. The study published by American Journal of Public Health found that "legal purchase of a handgun appears to be associated with a long-lasting increased risk of violent death" (p 6). Guns are related to a lot of deaths, and are among the top weapons associated with all deaths. Also, just legally owning one increases a person’s risk of dying

In a one year, almost 20,000 Americans suffer from nonfatal gun injuries, and 34,000 more, including over 3,000 children and teenagers, are killed by gunfire. “Federal and state laws are now required that will take the existing stockpile of 200 million guns out of the hands of ordinary citizens and prohibit the further sale and possession of handguns other than for people who have a legitimate, professional reason to carry them” (page 1). Certainly, people will kill each other its just human nature, but common sense shows that only with the aid of a firearm can they do it so efficiently and effectivly and in such large numbers. Also the other talk about many other things on how basically, guns don’t kill people, people kill people tone, and that grabbed my attention. The last paragraph in this journal was one of the best summaries I have heard on gun rights it stated.  “It's time to put an end to the arguments about the meaning of the Second Amendment and come to terms with the social and political realities of the twenty-first century. Guns kill; it's what they're meant to do. And no spin by those stalwarts who insist on our right to carry guns can change the fact that their unregulated use has unleashed a murderous plague that kills and injures far too many victims every year. Yes, people will continue to kill each other even if we ban guns” (pg

With each mass shooting, defined as four or more victims having been killed indiscriminately, antagonism grows between both sides of the gun control argument. 40% of Americas population own guns that’s roughly 130,000,000 people who own guns in America, that is a lot of people that own guns. Also every year there are 36,000 deaths by guns only including the ones they have found out about and 533,000 in the

There is a high rate of gun-related violence. The United States leads in numbers the world for most in gun violence and ownership of guns. This is perhaps the most obvious argument made in the gun control debate guns kill people, most of the time for pointless reasons. Some statistics to back this argument up The American Journal for Public Health

When it comes to guns people think about mass shootings around the U.S. There were 372 mass shootings in 2015 killing 475 and killing 1,870 people, a mass shooting is where there are four or more people killed or injured. Second there were 64 school shootings, Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut was the most known school shooting 20 students and 6 adults were killed the ages of the kids were between the age of six and seven. Out of all the shootings there were 13,286 killed and 26,819 injured per year. From 1928 to 2011 there were more people being shot and killed or injured, and suicides than from anyone dying from being shot and killed in the war. There were from people being shot and killed or suicides was 1.4 million people from the Civil War to Iraq only 1.2 million died from being shot and killed or injured. Last the U.S. spends roughly 1 trillion dollars on fighting terrorism which kills a fraction of people than people getting shot in a gun

Guns are major part of living in the United States of America. The U.S alone has 35% to 50% of the world's civilian owned Firearms. More than likely you have at least one in your house. As more and more guns are being produced and sold in the U.S more anti-gun activists are pushing for increased gun control but the facts show that more gun control actually means more gun related violence. There is no doubt that there is a problem with gun related violence in the U.S. but there is a perception that it has suddenly worsened but in all reality things are better that they have been in decades. Once again on the news you will hear that 30,000 people killed last year with guns. What the media does not say is that of those 30,000, 20,000 of those people killed themselves with a gun. Some of these facts are shocking to hear. Even though gun control is the first thing we turn to when gun related violence occurs the negative factors are far greater than the positives.

Of the many problems we face in gun control it is availability of guns to the very people that don’t need them. The Sandy Hook shooting, occurring on December 14, 2012, sparked a nation wide push for stricter gun control. The shooter, a mentally ill male, shot down 26 people with a semi-automatic AR-15-- a military type assault rifle. Many Americans were left wondering how a mentally ill person would be capable of acquiring such guns. The truth is that it is not very difficult for someone to acquire such weaponry. On January 14, 2013 Brian Walsh wrote in a Time article that there was nearly one gun for every person in the U.S. We own almost, if not, half of the world 's civilian guns. Furthermore our laws and regulations are generally slack compared to other developed countries. In Canada, not only do gun owners receive a background check, they must undergo a safety gun course and have a federal registration certificate for that weapon. Japan 's laws are among the strictest: essentially banning all weapons except those used in competitions and requiring

The high death rate can also be linked back to the ready accessibility of guns and the willingness to use maximum force in conflict. The fact that the U.S is a highly violent environment makes the influence of gun use to the death rate much greater. America has a problem with violence and a problem with guns and each one in turn makes the other more lethal. Common strategies of gun control are the attempt to restrict hazardous people from being able to attain and use guns and to outlaw the use of easily misused guns such as sawed off shot guns, automatic weapons, and grenades from the general public. Most gun control strategies do not make much impact on the use of guns.

According to Reason magazine, from 1992 - 2014, the number of civilian firearms have increased by 50%. And the murder rate has dropped by more than half. Consider that for a moment. So more guns does not equal more deaths. If it were true, then the murder rate should have increased over the past decade. So, what has changed if not the number of deaths? People. People have changed. Parents no longer know how to discipline their children. Instead of children getting the hindends busted when they do something wrong they get talks and bribes not to do bad things. Caregivers need to learn to discipline their children without bribes. Thus people are the real issue here, not access to guns. Decreased gun violence is not reliant on the number of guns in the public’s

Guns do not kill people, people kill people. Guns are not the problem in today’s society. Criminals will kill regardless of gun control. Before guns were created, people were killing people. Yes a gun is a deadly weapon and yes people are killed from gun related incidents everyday, but guns do not have the ability to harm any one on their own. It is true that some of the largest mass murders have been shootings. Many tragedies have occurred because of one person with a gun (Refuting). However, those murderers would not have been stopped if a good guy with a gun didn’t stop them. If the police wouldn’t have stopped many of these killers, they would have continued to kill more people. It is known that many of these mass murders have occurred in gun-free zones. The Sandy Hook shooting happened on school grounds, Virginia Tech and Columbine also on school grounds, and Colorado movie theater shooting all

Do guns kill people? Of course not, it isn’t logical and it’s ridiculous to blame the action of a person on an inanimate object. When someone makes a bomb the bomber is blamed, not the bomb. No one is blaming Toyota for ISIS using their trucks. Guns just aren’t as evil as media portrays them to be. Media is a large problem in the gun community. Taking guns away doesn’t do anything but hurt everyday americans.