There is always something on the news about violence, whether it is school shootings or work place violence, so are gun control laws the answer? No, gun control laws do not reduce crimes committed with firearms, and in fact are counterproductive by increasing the violent crime rates, as well as unconstitutional. Gun control laws do not reduce crimes committed with fire arms. A perfect example of this is this is in Massachusetts in 1998, some of the toughest gun laws in the country were passed. Since 1998, gun crime in Massachusetts has gotten worse, not better. “The murders committed with firearms went from 65 in 1998 to 122 in 2011” Another example of gun laws not reducing crime is the Brady Law, according to Yale law professor John
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The first example is Canada: Canada introduced stringent gun control laws in 1991 and 1995, "The contrast between the criminal violence rates in the United States and in Canada is dramatic," says Canadian criminologist Gary Mauser in 2003. "Over the past decade, the rate of violent crimes in Canada has increased while in the United States the violent crime rate has decreased significantly. Another example of gun control increasing violent crimes is the DC Gun ban of 1976; Violent crimes increased after the law was enacted, with homicides rising to 369 in 1988, from 188 in 1976 when the ban started. By 1993, annual homicides had reached 454. One more example would be a Harvard study done by Prof. Don Kates and Prof. Gary Mauser in their exhaustive study of American and European gun laws and violence rates. The study found that the nine European nations with the lowest rates of gun ownership (5,000 or fewer guns per 100,000 population) have a combined murder rate three times higher than that of the nine nations with the highest rates of gun ownership (at least 15,000 guns per 100,000
The first example is Canada: Canada introduced stringent gun control laws in 1991 and 1995, "The contrast between the criminal violence rates in the United States and in Canada is dramatic," says Canadian criminologist Gary Mauser in 2003. "Over the past decade, the rate of violent crimes in Canada has increased while in the United States the violent crime rate has decreased significantly. Another example of gun control increasing violent crimes is the DC Gun ban of 1976; Violent crimes increased after the law was enacted, with homicides rising to 369 in 1988, from 188 in 1976 when the ban started. By 1993, annual homicides had reached 454. One more example would be a Harvard study done by Prof. Don Kates and Prof. Gary Mauser in their exhaustive study of American and European gun laws and violence rates. The study found that the nine European nations with the lowest rates of gun ownership (5,000 or fewer guns per 100,000 population) have a combined murder rate three times higher than that of the nine nations with the highest rates of gun ownership (at least 15,000 guns per 100,000