Statistics:
The Centers for Disease Control listed firearms as the #12 cause of all deaths between 1999 and 2013. They were also the #1 method of death by homicide (66.6% of all homicides) and by suicide (52.2% of all suicides).
The biggest argument for guns are for self-defense. People use this argument to justify why gun control would be bad when in reality guns are rarely used for self defense. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, of the 29,618,300 violent crimes committed between 2007 and 2011, 0.79% of victims (235,700) protected themselves with a threat of use or use of a firearm, the least-employed protective behavior.
Guns that are purchased and registered legally are often stolen and used by criminals everywhere. A good majority of gun owners do not properly and safely store …show more content…
had over 12 thousand firearm-related homicides.
Logic:
With more gun control laws the deaths associated with them would be dramatically reduced. If the government outlaws or takes away these guns then the number of gun related deaths would sky rockets down and drop dramatically.
Gun control would not only drop the death toll by guns but would also reduce the societal costs associated with all of the violence by guns. Japan who has the strictest gun laws in the world only had 11 people killed in 2008 compared to the 28,000 in the United States according to New York Times.
The presence of a gun makes a conflict more likely to become violent and more likely to result in a fatality.
Countries with restrictive gun control laws have lower gun homicide and suicide rates than the United States. The United Kingdom had 93 gun-related suicides in 2011 while the United States has
Current gun registration laws are not adequate for law enforcement. To help prevent and to help solve crimes, guns should be registered and characterized before they are use to commit a crime. The only ones that would be threatened by this policy would be
The Centers for Disease Control listed firearms as the #12 cause of all deaths between 1999 and 2013. They were also the #1 method of death by homicide (66.6% of all homicides) and by suicide (52.2% of all suicides).
The biggest argument for guns are for self-defense. People use this argument to justify why gun control would be bad when in reality guns are rarely used for self defense. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, of the 29,618,300 violent crimes committed between 2007 and 2011, 0.79% of victims (235,700) protected themselves with a threat of use or use of a firearm, the least-employed protective behavior.
Guns that are purchased and registered legally are often stolen and used by criminals everywhere. A good majority of gun owners do not properly and safely store …show more content…
had over 12 thousand firearm-related homicides.
Logic:
With more gun control laws the deaths associated with them would be dramatically reduced. If the government outlaws or takes away these guns then the number of gun related deaths would sky rockets down and drop dramatically.
Gun control would not only drop the death toll by guns but would also reduce the societal costs associated with all of the violence by guns. Japan who has the strictest gun laws in the world only had 11 people killed in 2008 compared to the 28,000 in the United States according to New York Times.
The presence of a gun makes a conflict more likely to become violent and more likely to result in a fatality.
Countries with restrictive gun control laws have lower gun homicide and suicide rates than the United States. The United Kingdom had 93 gun-related suicides in 2011 while the United States has
Current gun registration laws are not adequate for law enforcement. To help prevent and to help solve crimes, guns should be registered and characterized before they are use to commit a crime. The only ones that would be threatened by this policy would be