Over the past few decades, people across the United States have been debating about gun control laws. Debates ranging from restrictions to background checks, have been heavily discussed by both civilians and people on Capitol Hill. Many nations have abolished the private ownership of guns all together, others have made it nearly impossible to own a firearm. America has been reported to have the highest gun violence in the world, as well as the most lacks gun laws. Many Americans believe that adding more gun restrictions is against the countries Second Amendment rights. Are more gun restrictions and gun laws the right way to go? Will more restrictions lower gun violence? My intent is to prove that tougher gun restriction laws, or lack
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Many states have already begun to write tougher laws to make it more difficult to purchase firearms, sometimes stricter regulations don’t help. The state of California has some of the nation’s toughest gun regulations, yet “Twenty-three states had lower firearm homicide rates” (Samaha, 2013). The United States Government, to help with the climbing gun violence, implemented the Brady Act in 1984. The Brady Act made background checks a requirement for gun purchases from licensed dealers. Eighteen states had already met the Brady Act requirements. This means that thirty-two states in America had to toughen their gun regulations. The lead authors of the study, Georgetown University policy analyst Jens Ludwig and Philip Cook of Duke University, examined national statistics from 1985 through 1997 to compare the Brady law 's impact on crime in the 32 states that had to toughen their laws. “The authors noted that homicide and suicide rates had already begun to decline nationwide before 1994, but they assumed those rates would fall faster in those states that had to adopt new laws to comply. Instead, they found no overall difference” (Little Change in Murders, Suicides Under Brady Law, 2000). If stricter gun regulations worked, why does California, the state with the toughest laws, not have the lowest firearm homicide rate? If stricter gun regulations worked, why did the …show more content…
Many other countries have administered very strict gun laws while others have little to no gun regulations. “Switzerland has the world’s most lax gun restrictions (The Swiss Government is actually talking about issuing handguns to all qualified citizens) and has the world’s lowest crime rate” (Firearms-Control Legislation and Policy: Switzerland, 2013). Switzerland is not the only country where little gun regulations have worked. The Czech Republic’s lack of gun regulations have proved to work for them with only “0.15 homicides per 100,000 people in 2014”, per the United Nations Office of Drug and Crime, Czech Republic report printed in
Many states have already begun to write tougher laws to make it more difficult to purchase firearms, sometimes stricter regulations don’t help. The state of California has some of the nation’s toughest gun regulations, yet “Twenty-three states had lower firearm homicide rates” (Samaha, 2013). The United States Government, to help with the climbing gun violence, implemented the Brady Act in 1984. The Brady Act made background checks a requirement for gun purchases from licensed dealers. Eighteen states had already met the Brady Act requirements. This means that thirty-two states in America had to toughen their gun regulations. The lead authors of the study, Georgetown University policy analyst Jens Ludwig and Philip Cook of Duke University, examined national statistics from 1985 through 1997 to compare the Brady law 's impact on crime in the 32 states that had to toughen their laws. “The authors noted that homicide and suicide rates had already begun to decline nationwide before 1994, but they assumed those rates would fall faster in those states that had to adopt new laws to comply. Instead, they found no overall difference” (Little Change in Murders, Suicides Under Brady Law, 2000). If stricter gun regulations worked, why does California, the state with the toughest laws, not have the lowest firearm homicide rate? If stricter gun regulations worked, why did the …show more content…
Many other countries have administered very strict gun laws while others have little to no gun regulations. “Switzerland has the world’s most lax gun restrictions (The Swiss Government is actually talking about issuing handguns to all qualified citizens) and has the world’s lowest crime rate” (Firearms-Control Legislation and Policy: Switzerland, 2013). Switzerland is not the only country where little gun regulations have worked. The Czech Republic’s lack of gun regulations have proved to work for them with only “0.15 homicides per 100,000 people in 2014”, per the United Nations Office of Drug and Crime, Czech Republic report printed in