Gun Law: Helpful or Fatal Gun law is always a controversial issue in the USA for past several years. Painful incidents like mass shootings and assasination raises this topic more and often. After all of these miserable incidents, is it relevant for the US government to not come up with a plan in gun law cases? Should the government wait for more killings? No, absolutely not. It is now the right time to amend the laws regarding guns. As per the Washington Post, "there could be as high as 360 million guns in the states. It is a very high number for a country with a population of 318 million. Gun law advocates states that, more the gun, high the gun crime ratio. The observation shows that the homicide ratio is 3.5 per 100,000 and suicidal number is 21,175 in the states. It is exceptionally high as compared to the country having strict gun laws like England where homicidal ratio is only 0.06. Also, the gun number is only 0.6 per 100 residents in Japan when it is 112.6 in the states. Furthermore, it is found that among fourteen deadliest masss shootings
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To be safe? If that is the case then most of us are wrong. Researchers from Harvard, Yale, Standford, Johns Hopkins, the University of California and elsewhere have all concluded: No, guns make more harm than safe. In a study published in the American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine, Harvard professor David Hemenway concludes, “Scientific studies suggest that the health risk of a gun in the home is greater than the benefit. There are no credible studies that indicate otherwise. There is no good evidence of a deterrent effect of firearms or that a gun in the home reduces the likelihood or severity of injury during an altercation or break-in. The evidence indicates that the costs of having a gun in the home will widely outweigh the benefits.” So for what purpose do we need to have a gun when it is more fatal than beneficial when it is supposed to be
To be safe? If that is the case then most of us are wrong. Researchers from Harvard, Yale, Standford, Johns Hopkins, the University of California and elsewhere have all concluded: No, guns make more harm than safe. In a study published in the American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine, Harvard professor David Hemenway concludes, “Scientific studies suggest that the health risk of a gun in the home is greater than the benefit. There are no credible studies that indicate otherwise. There is no good evidence of a deterrent effect of firearms or that a gun in the home reduces the likelihood or severity of injury during an altercation or break-in. The evidence indicates that the costs of having a gun in the home will widely outweigh the benefits.” So for what purpose do we need to have a gun when it is more fatal than beneficial when it is supposed to be