Local agencies have been involved in the gun control issue for many years. When interviews were conducted of local law enforcement and other prospective agencies; the majority feel that crime would drop substantially if more people owned and could properly use a firearm. A small percentage did agree with the current political views, that the problem in this country is that guns are to easily assessable to the general public. Many of the officers interviewed are retired sheriff’s department in Texas and Colorado, in these agencies the consensus is that stricter gun laws will not detour violent or aggravated crime. The application of stricter gun control laws will in fact hinder law enforcement agencies across America.
Of those, 80 percent of those firearms were stolen from homes and vehicles where they were improperly secured. Only 40 percent of the stolen firearms have been recovered (Statistics: Gun Violence in our Communities, 2005). These statistics indicate how essential proper and safe gun storage is to keeping firearms from being stolen and ending up in the hands of someone who has no business possessing
Another example that shows that guns aren’t so dangerous is that in any given year there is one drowning of a child for every 11,000 residential pools as compared to 1 death for every 1 million guns, or 175 children killed for the over 200 million guns owned in the U.S. (Levitt 150). Statistics like this show that pools could potentially be even more dangerous than guns. Those that believe guns are so dangerous may want to consider focusing on things that are taking more lives, such as autmobiles. They should
Stop the Gun Violence Something must be done to reduce the gun violence in America. In 2011, there were 8583 people killed by guns in the United States (Rogers). Most of these incidents get little to no media coverage. Every so often there is a Columbine, Virginia Tech or Sandy Hook tragedy that gets the nation's attention for a few weeks but after that it fades away in most people's minds. Unfortunately these catastrophes are becoming more and more frequent.
That is a part of our freedom. But at what point does a citizen deserve to lose that freedom? Criminals have such easy access to firearms just based on the fact that it is so easy to buy one. Gary Kleck, author of “Point Blank: Handgun Violence In America” states “Probably fewer than two percent of handguns and well under one percent of all guns will ever be involved in a violent crime. Thus, the problem of criminal gun violence is concentrated within a very small subset of gun owners, indicating that gun control aimed at the general population faces a serious needle-in-the-haystack problem.” The vast majority of citizens buying firearms are only doing it merely for their own protection.
With a gun you probably have more of a chance of hurting and killing someone then what you do if you were to use a taser. I found this fact. “16,880 law enforcement agencies in 107 countries deploy tasers resulting in 89,000 people lives saved from potential death or serious injury.” That really is a big number of lives saved. Just think of the lives that would not have been saved from using a gun. I would think at least half or more would have resulted in death.
Evidence Research: * I have found that 1.6 million auto accidents per year, which is equal to 28%, are caused by cell phone use and texting and driving. * Also, another scary thought is that texting and driving is equivalent to a driver who has had 4 beers and then started to drive. E. Conclusion I propose that a state ban of texting and driving will alleviate most of the accidents that are happening now days due to this major distraction that only requires a driver’s eye for 5 seconds. In those five seconds, if traveling at 55 MPH, a driver can go the distance of a football field (Bowers, 2014) and can cause a horrific accident. It has been stated in research, that 1.6 million of auto accidents are caused by cell phone us and texting, which is 28% (Pascual-Ferrá, Liu, & Beatty, Meta-Analytic Comparison of the Effects of Text Messaging to Substance-Induced Impairment on Driving Performance, 2012), as well as texting and driving is equivalent to someone who has drank 4 beers, (Bowers, 2014) or someone who has decided to get high off of some kind of illegal drug, and then decided to get behind the wheel and drive.
In a perfect world this would be true. However, there are many other factors that must be taken into consideration before agreeing with this statement. For example, in a 1996 study Professor Gary Kleck (University of Florida) states that more than a million crimes are thwarted due to the homeowner being in possession of a firearm, with only a very small percentage of these incidents ending up in death or injury of either party. With guns being banned, it would simply take a group of criminals to march into a home with no fear of being shot, to overpower someone and do as they please. This is assuming that the criminal who is breaking countless laws as it is has decided to abide by the gun control law.
Only about 60 percent of all drivers today wear their seatbelts, and according to Oklahoma state university, that is one of the leading causes in car accident fatality(“study mode”). According to the NHTSA wearing your seatbelt is the most effective way for any driver to prevent death in case of an accident. From 2004 to 2008 seatbelts have saved about 75,000 lives, and save about 13,000 lives each year says Oklahoma State University. An article from car accidents .com called “seat belts save lives” says, Americans pay about $580 dollars to car crashes every year. If people would simply buckle up, that alone could cut the costs down dramatically.
Cigarette smoking should be banned because they are harmful to the smokers’ health, they’re harmful to nonsmokers’ health, as well as, being harmful to our environment; however, banning the use cigarettes could be very detrimental for our economy. There are 1.1 billion cigarette users throughout the world right now (Martin). There is not a safe form of cigarettes products for anyone to use. They cause about 5 million deaths per year all over the world and of that 5 million, 480,000 are in the United States alone (“Fast”). Cigarette causing diseases are one of the top most preventable types of diseases there is in the world.