Strict gun laws, if instituted in the United States will only create easy targets for criminals and terrorist. While one would think that removing guns from civilians would decrease violent crime, guns in the hands of civilians act the same way that nuclear weapons did during the cold war. Having the ability to cause harm to others is in itself a deterrent we are a primitive race and the one thing that our little monkey brain knows best is that you leave the monkey with the big stick alone. This essay will look at countries that have enacted strict gun laws and the effect that those laws have had. This essay will then compare countries with strict gun laws with countries that have lax gun laws. In the end I will show that light gun laws with
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They want this as they will often be killed by police even if they don’t commit suicide. Because of this they pick soft targets, now you might ask what a soft target is. A soft target is a person or place that has minimal security or will offer little to no resentence to a terrorists attack. Soft targets include places like subways, malls, movie theaters, sporting events, and schools. Schools are unique in that you are not allowed to have guns on them. If we look at the massacre that occurred at the University of Texas in 1966 Charles Whitman entered the tower on campus and started sniping students. In arming the good guys Grant Arnold talks about how students and civilian went to their vehicles and laid down suppressing fire in order to limit the damage that Whitman could inflect (Arnold, 2015). This showed that armed civilians could limit the damage that a terrorist can do, if they are armed. Arnold also talks about Utah and how Utah has not had a mass shooting incident in its schools Arnold accounts for this dew to the fact that “citizens that have been issued concealed handgun permits are allowed to carry weapons at any public school (including elementary schools) as well as any state college system(Arnold, 2015). This means that a terrorist has no idea whether or not he will meet resistance making a potential soft target …show more content…
Un the UK they banned guns and still have problems with gun violence while in Switzerland they have lax gun laws but almost no gun violence why is that? The answer is simple and that is training. Is Switzerland everyone is a member of the military is taught by proxy responsible gun ownership and respect for firearms. While in the UK they are not taught responsible gun ownership and so have no respect for their firearms. If we really wanted to reduce gun violence in America we need to teach everyone responsible gun ownership and instill respect for guns in America. And we need to remember that MAD (mutually assured destruction not just for nukes) can deter a would be assailant. I mean would you attack someone with who has a gun I know I would not and neither would a
They want this as they will often be killed by police even if they don’t commit suicide. Because of this they pick soft targets, now you might ask what a soft target is. A soft target is a person or place that has minimal security or will offer little to no resentence to a terrorists attack. Soft targets include places like subways, malls, movie theaters, sporting events, and schools. Schools are unique in that you are not allowed to have guns on them. If we look at the massacre that occurred at the University of Texas in 1966 Charles Whitman entered the tower on campus and started sniping students. In arming the good guys Grant Arnold talks about how students and civilian went to their vehicles and laid down suppressing fire in order to limit the damage that Whitman could inflect (Arnold, 2015). This showed that armed civilians could limit the damage that a terrorist can do, if they are armed. Arnold also talks about Utah and how Utah has not had a mass shooting incident in its schools Arnold accounts for this dew to the fact that “citizens that have been issued concealed handgun permits are allowed to carry weapons at any public school (including elementary schools) as well as any state college system(Arnold, 2015). This means that a terrorist has no idea whether or not he will meet resistance making a potential soft target …show more content…
Un the UK they banned guns and still have problems with gun violence while in Switzerland they have lax gun laws but almost no gun violence why is that? The answer is simple and that is training. Is Switzerland everyone is a member of the military is taught by proxy responsible gun ownership and respect for firearms. While in the UK they are not taught responsible gun ownership and so have no respect for their firearms. If we really wanted to reduce gun violence in America we need to teach everyone responsible gun ownership and instill respect for guns in America. And we need to remember that MAD (mutually assured destruction not just for nukes) can deter a would be assailant. I mean would you attack someone with who has a gun I know I would not and neither would a