In the same year not a single Japanese child died of gunshot wounds. Great Britain had nineteen deaths, Germany fifty-seven, France one hundred nine, and Canada one hundred fifty-three. (Rubin 352.) Yes, people will continue to kill each other even if we ban guns, but all the evidence including plain common sense, says they can’t do it so efficiently and in such large numbers without the aid of a gun. Rubin is one of many that believe that guns should be made illegal, but if guns are made illegal, how is it fair to those that are safe with guns?
A vetinam veteran says "Problem with taking away guns is you can only take them from law abiding people. Criminals will continue to be armed." Another citizen claims "Criminals will always find a way to get guns, a great majority of larger weapons are already banned, most assault rifles. Yet criminals manage to obtain them some how, they smuggle them from Mexico or hide them in cargo crates. Now imagine an army of criminals with assault rifles versus a police force with no weapons at all.
“Can you name one law that would keep guns out of the hands of criminals” (Webster)? Assault Weapons Ban: “Handguns are used in about 90% of all firearm murders” (Webster). No legitimate study in the U.S. has ever shown that gun control has any positive impact on crime. People want to believe gun control will reduce crime, but the truth is that gun control will never work. History has shown that gun control will never work.
I am not saying they would not get them, but it would be more difficult to find them. Cons for gun control are that if they ban some clips for a .22 rifle, I would not be able to keep my magazine unless they rule that a big clip is smaller than a certain number. Some people would disagree that having any kind of gun control is bad. The big gun enthusiasts think that nothing is going to change except for the temper of the
7) The law was required for 32 states; the other 18 + The District of Columbia already had regulations like this so they were exempt from the law requirements. 8) The law was opposed by many congressmen who would look to the Second Amendment, and thought that it wasn’t constitutional because of the way it restricted the regulation of ownership of handguns. B: Effects of the Brady Bill 1) "Control and treatment states had the same gun homicide rates before and after the Brady law passed," Cook said. "It made no discernible difference. There is no statistically significant effect."
Even with the current gun restrictions according to a study at John Hopkins research center “More than a quarter of all guns connected with the Bureau of Alcohol, tobacco, and Firearms investigations (crimes) of illegal gun trafficking.” There is no way that a ban of assault rifles is going stop the purchasing of such rifles. If there was such a ban in America that rivaled the U.K. than it could be assumed or projected that it would American prohibition all over again, and the law of prohibition was the most ignored law in American
These people point to guns as the direct cause of such criminal acts as homicide and domestic violence. The truth is, however, that a gun is just a tool; without the operator the gun or the tool can’t do anything. The gun can’t put bullets in itself and the gun can’t pull its own trigger. It is the people that use the guns that are the real problem. While it is true that guns are involved in thousands of deaths per year in the United States, there are things that lead to far more deaths than guns.
Haydn Collyer Topic: Gun Control Writing 122 9/25/12 The topic of gun control is a highly disputed one. I believe that America has more important matters to attend to rather than getting into a dispute over something that has been argued since its creation, firearms. To the average American a “gun” is something that is only made for killing and is only found in the hands of villains, criminals and law enforcement/military. I am here to tell you that that is not the case at all. Millions of honest Americans own guns.
Brown reports. "We have been basically selling every single thing we make," Mr. Fifer said on the call. But gun control is still one of Feinstein's highest priorities. She authored the 1994 assault-weapons ban, which expired in 2004 because Congress did not reauthorize it. One question being asked is how effective a ban on assault weapons would be in curbing gun violence.
To undergo a background check, prospective gun buyers are required by federal regulations to present, “photo identification issued by a government entity.” It is illegal and punishable by up to 10 years in prison to sell or transfer any firearm or ammunition to someone while “knowing” or having “reasonable cause to believe” that the person is convicted of a felony offense. Background checks have blocked more than 1.6 million prohibited purchasers from buying guns. Background checks only do so much, because criminals don’t go to stores to buy guns, but go through the black market were they obtain basically what they want. Besides the black market, criminals also obtain weapons through loop holes such as family and friends, private sellers, and gun shows, where they do not need to go through any background