more guns more deaths. Also, other countries have had success with gun control by doing a gun buyback program. In Australia, the government bought back 650,000 guns resulting in a homicide rate dropped by 42 percent 7 years after passing, as well as a 57 percent drop in firearm suicide according to a Harvard study. The fact that people are the ones who kill people is still correct at the end, but in order to decrease gun violence, less is more in this…
In the United States, gun control has been a huge debate. Some people just want to get rid of it altogether, or even just simply leave it the same. Others think that there should be more, and that some places don’t do a good enough job enforcing their gun control policies. These different views show that gun control laws are extremely debatable as both sides have very convincing arguments. According to John Patterson, the director of protective services at Mercyhurst University and a registered gun safety course instructor, there are many purposes for owning a firearm.…
Tighter Gun Control Intro Have you ever heard someone say that guns should not be allowed in America? There are many reasons why we should have guns and why we shouldn't. Lots of people use guns for different things.…
Gun control can be defined as, “any action taken by the federal government or by state or local governments to regulate, through legislation, the sale, purchase, safety, and use of handguns and other types of firearms by individual citizens” (Lee). America has internally debated the issue of gun control for over a century. It continues to be an important and pressing issue today in the United States. There are no set standards for gun control. Each state varies in its laws.…
There is a lot of inaccurate data and here-say surrounding Australia 's recent decision to institute strict gun laws, with one side claiming the agreement is saving countless lives and another saying the absence of weapons has caused uncontrollable crime. The abundance of evidence this journal provides puts the rumors to bed and effectively proves that the removal of firearms has done very little for Australia 's firearm related crime-rate. Even with this article giving solid evidence and insight on the ineffectiveness of the NFA, I personally feel that many aspects are not being taken into consideration. While I am entirely against strict gun control laws such as this, some good can come from it. The fact that Australia has yet to have another mass shooting since 1996 proves that the NFA is accomplishing something.…
A second way to demonstrate the danger of simply access to firearms is to examine the correlation between number of guns owned and gun deaths. An article by Max Fisher and Josh Keller states that "the United States has 270 million guns and had 90 mass shooters from 1966 to 2012" and that "no other country has more than 46 million guns or 18 mass shooters". These statistics show a direct correlation between the number of guns people have access to and the amount of mass shootings and gun deaths in general. If legislation is made to simply limit access to military grade weapons or any gun in general, the evidence is clear that there would be a decrease in gun deaths. By comparing the U.S. to other countries so similar, a clear idea can be formulated about what the solution to such a high number of gun deaths and mass shootings that has currently become a crisis in…
The overall purpose of the gun control policy is to reduce the number of guns getting into the hands of people who are not legally licensed. Depending on the state, it also may or may not be required that you do a background check or have a license for gun purchases. For example, in the New York State, background check and having a licensed for gun purchases is required. However, in a state like Florida, background checks or having a license for gun purchases is not required. Despite this idea of background checks for gun purchases, there is also this idea of high-capacity magazine ban that prohibits people from selling and owning guns with high capacity as they are able to kill people rapidly because they do not need to be reloaded as fast.…
Gun policy is a controversial issue in American politics. Supporters of gun control and gun rights supporters are divided on the issue with public safety and other issues. American love affair with guns and gun culture is deep and enduring. Although The second amendment of the United Sates constitution gives the citizens the right to use guns to protect themselves, but how to control about using the the guns, is that useful?…
The first federal gun control law was added in 1934 by Franklin D. Roosevelt. The first federal gun control law was called the National Firearms Act. Eighty-one years later and the gun control issue have not been solved. One of the reasons that the gun control issue has not been solved is due to the ineffective background check in gun shows, online sales, and at some gun stores. The background check system is ineffective because the mentally unstable and criminals are still able to possess and use guns on a daily basis which will cause harm to innocent people.…
Gun Control? Every year thousands of people across this nation die from evil people with guns. People in positions of government have tried to come up with solutions for this problem. But no real action has been taken to solve this problem.…
After the shootings, an activist group known as Faith United to Prevent Gun Violence held a conference that aimed to petition Congress to make gun laws that require universal background checks, ban high-capacity weapons and magazines, and make gun trafficking a federal crime (Schultz). A majority of the American people wish for stricter gun control measures. However, this also raises a question: do stricter gun control measures actually work? To answer this question, all one has to do is look at the precedents set by other countries, in order to see where they have succeeded in their own respective gun control…
Gun crimes sadly, in my opinion, are on the rise in our society. Pre-Columbine Massacre, our society had gun violence but it was not televised, on every channel or on every page of the newspaper. Social media has been a huge part of the reasoning behind violence being so open to society. According to the text, the Youth Firearms Violence Initiative (YFVI) was one approach to juvenile gun crime.…
More rules against who can have guns will make society safer by decreasing the number of drive by shootings and accidental shootings and save lives. These regulations will also prevent many homicides and mass shootings. Lastly, more laws controlling who has access to guns will help save the lives of people dealing with depression or mental illness that are having suicidal thoughts or actions. Other countries, such as Australia, have put these types of gun control laws into action and have experienced very successful results. Since 1996, Australia's deaths caused by guns have gone down by two-thirds and they have not experienced a single mass shooting (Peters).…
Gun Control is Not the Solution Increased Gun Control in the United States is absurd, useless, and unnecessary. In order to increase safety all throughout the United States time and effort must not be spent towards limiting gun owners of their rights. The tragic rash of school, religious, and workplace shootings has turned up the heat on the public conversation about guns. In nearly all of these cases gun laws would not have stopped the shooters from obtaining a firearm.…
In the United States, there are about 89 firearms for every 100 people. This is almost triple the amount of any other first world country. The amount of homicides by firearm per 100,000 people is also 3.5 times greater than any similar country. There is clearly a strong correlation between the abundance of firearms, and the rate of violent crime. Strengthening gun laws would be a positive step towards decreasing the rate of gun violence.…