In the mid-2000s, when crime rates were declining fast, almost 70% of Americans wrongly said that crime rates had risen over the past year. Analysis: Why gun controls are off the agenda in America What force on earth could convince Americans that down is up? The most powerful force of all: television. TV news -- and especially local TV news -- is dominated by news of violent crime, the more spectacular and murderous the better. TV news creates a false picture of a country under attack by rampaging criminals, and especially nonwhite criminals.
“The United States has the dubious honor of having the highest rate of homicide and suicide by gun among developed countries, and guns are the leading cause of death for people ages 10 to 24. In 2001 alone, nearly 30,000 people died from gun wounds.” (Sifry and Watzman 312) Currently, 71% of homicides and 61% of suicides are firearm- related in the United States. It should make sense that a country, with much stricter laws, should have low rates of homicides and accidental killings. “After a much smaller school-yard massacre in Scotland, the United Kingdom parliament did just that. It is not illegal in the UK to own a handgun, and the gun killings have stopped.” (Robinson 318) People have to understand that anyone can be eligible of owning a handgun, and it can fall in the wrong hands of a
Edward Valiente English 120 Professor Taylor 11/20/11 Gun Control The United States is the leader among nations in deaths caused by firearms. According to the Legal Community Against Violence (LCAV), the “gun epidemic” kills more than 30,000 and causes almost 70,000 injuries each year (para 7). Eventually, this leads to an uprising of gun control advocates, who seek to reduce crime and death rates by setting a variety of gun control legislation among the state and federal levels. Although, anti-gun control advocates believe that heavy restrictions on the access of firearms is unfair to American citizens, and a violation of the 2nd amendment in the U.S. constitution. However, evidence shows that a lower restriction on gun control ensures
Feburary 26th Gun Control in the United States Throughout our nations history, we have been battling the idea of whether us citizens should or shouldn't have the right to buy and own a gun. According to the Coalition for Gun Control, about 291 people were killed last year by handguns in Australia, Japan, Great Britain, Sweden, and Switzerland. In the United States, try 24,000 people. What is the big difference between the U.S. and those other countries? In those countries it is nearly impossible for you to buy any kind of gun.
A lot of people state that gun control would be the obvious solution and many would agree with this. Yet this solution doesn’t seem to be as beneficial as one may think. An article published by the New York Times stated that 60 to 65 million Americans own over 200 million firearms. According to Firearms and Ammunition Industry Economic Report 2012, weapon manufactures employ over a quarter of a million people in the United States. Not only would us the people suffer, but also so would the government and our whole economy.
Compare twenty-nine years late which was 1995, it was increased to be 15835 gun homicides which is about 86 percent ascent (Jost 1108). As you can see, all of the data that are about how many people have been dead by using guns and those numbers aren’t small. Obviously, it is the consequence of the gun control has not being strict
In the United States men and women own over 250+ million firearms. These people own guns to give themselves security and safety against violent home intruders, but there are those who think otherwise. The Opposition of gun ownership rights say that the guns in society are the leading causes of violent gun crimes. However, whether guns are legal or not, they will end up in criminal hands, and once they are in the hands of criminals, there is nothing to stop these criminals from injuring and killing defenseless citizens. Guns have been a controversial issue for nearly a century, but guns have been in American hands since its foundation.
I think that there are too many crimes being committed in the United States because of our right to “bear arms”. There are roughly 300 million firearms owned by civilians in the United States as of 2010. About 100 million of these are handguns. At the current homicide rate, 1 in every 240 Americans will be murdered. A survey of
Recent polls taken by the Pew Research Center and General Social Surveys show that the main reason for support of marijuana is that the American public fails to see marijuana has a major moral issue (Galston, Dionne 1). Compared to gay marriage or abortion, many more Americans are indifferent when it comes to others using marijuana. Those against legalization who consider marijuana to be a gateway drug and a vice argue that legalization will lead an overall increase in consumption of the drug. They argue that legalization will decrease productivity in the workplace, influence children negatively, and increase drug induced automobile crashes. However, the pro-legalization Americans respond in saying increased marijuana use has no lasting health effects, legalization will allow for better regulation of distribution, and marijuana legalization will reduce alcohol consumption in America.
I will explain why more gun control is bad, and some that we already have are bad, for the United States of America; based on answers of why people think we need gun control. The United States tops the list for number of gun related deaths each year(Masters 2013). That statement is very true, the United States has over two hundred seventy million guns with a gun death rate of eleven thousand seventy eight people. The United States has more guns per a 100 persons (88.8 Masters 2013), yet in Japan guns are banned and they still had eleven murders by gun. That is a lot in a country where you can not buy a firearm.