The dispute about gun control has been a controversial topic that has come up very often throughout the last couple of years. The decision to ban guns in a total effort or to just make their gun control laws stricter. The reason that they are disputing this is because they believe that no guns or fewer guns on the street will equal less crime. Which I believe that isn’t the case. I say that isn’t the case because if they stop selling guns legally that leaves one other option open. This is the black market. The “black market” would increase due to the fact that the government stops selling guns legally so the people that would like to still possess a firearm would have to obtain their guns illegally. In many of the studies that I accumulated
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Koper is a professor of Criminology, Law and Society at George Mason University. He received his education at the University of Maryland. In his article “Crime Gun Risk Factors: Buyer, Seller, Firearm, and Transaction Characteristics Associated with Gun Trafficking and Criminal Gun Use” he talks about the transactional movements of guns trafficking affects the United States and amount of the Police Department of Baltimore would recover those guns back. In the time of Baltimore the rate of guns being recovered by Police Department was 3.2 percent within a five year span. The guns that were mainly obtained back by the Police Department were “semiautomatic, medium to large caliber, easily concealable, and cheap.” (Christopher S. Koper PG 1) The majority of those buyers were people that have had their guns recovered by the police before. It was African Americans, young, females and also there was a proximity factor. The proximity factory would have been applied to you if you lived in or close to the city. The dealers of the guns usually sold guns in multiple transactions. Christopher S. Koper states that the study that he did was “multivariate survival analysis utilizing data” (Christopher S. Koper PG 1). The author used information from Police Departments to gather up his findings. The author believes that there need to be more research to find out more strategies for prevention because of the restrictions of the …show more content…
Most of the articles that I read agreed on making the gun control laws more strict. The majority of the articles that I read didn’t determine how to stop selling of “straw purchases” or how to effectively stop illegal distribution of guns. The lack of research means that there would be a better opportunity for trying to figure out solutions on the reduction of illegal distribution. Joe Scarborough article provide a lot of information about his interviews with the inmates, but didn’t specifically find the sources of why they got those guns and from who they got them from. In the article it only seems to ask close-ended questions compared to if he would have asked more open-end questions for a better result. There are also other studies as the same one he did. One thing that he did state was criminals don’t go through background checks. The reason he says that because the criminals know that they wouldn’t pass them so why would they even bother. Which I believe is a valid
Koper is a professor of Criminology, Law and Society at George Mason University. He received his education at the University of Maryland. In his article “Crime Gun Risk Factors: Buyer, Seller, Firearm, and Transaction Characteristics Associated with Gun Trafficking and Criminal Gun Use” he talks about the transactional movements of guns trafficking affects the United States and amount of the Police Department of Baltimore would recover those guns back. In the time of Baltimore the rate of guns being recovered by Police Department was 3.2 percent within a five year span. The guns that were mainly obtained back by the Police Department were “semiautomatic, medium to large caliber, easily concealable, and cheap.” (Christopher S. Koper PG 1) The majority of those buyers were people that have had their guns recovered by the police before. It was African Americans, young, females and also there was a proximity factor. The proximity factory would have been applied to you if you lived in or close to the city. The dealers of the guns usually sold guns in multiple transactions. Christopher S. Koper states that the study that he did was “multivariate survival analysis utilizing data” (Christopher S. Koper PG 1). The author used information from Police Departments to gather up his findings. The author believes that there need to be more research to find out more strategies for prevention because of the restrictions of the …show more content…
Most of the articles that I read agreed on making the gun control laws more strict. The majority of the articles that I read didn’t determine how to stop selling of “straw purchases” or how to effectively stop illegal distribution of guns. The lack of research means that there would be a better opportunity for trying to figure out solutions on the reduction of illegal distribution. Joe Scarborough article provide a lot of information about his interviews with the inmates, but didn’t specifically find the sources of why they got those guns and from who they got them from. In the article it only seems to ask close-ended questions compared to if he would have asked more open-end questions for a better result. There are also other studies as the same one he did. One thing that he did state was criminals don’t go through background checks. The reason he says that because the criminals know that they wouldn’t pass them so why would they even bother. Which I believe is a valid