These are only a few of the mass shootings that have occurred recently in the past and have sparked debate about the controversial topic of gun control. Every year, approximately 100,000 Americans fall victim to gun violence. Although guns should not be banned completely, limiting the buying and selling of guns, and restricting ammunition amounts and types. By putting gun
That's because anti-gun laws don't affect criminals, who ignore the laws. Government studies prove it, finding that most criminals get guns through theft or the black market, where gun laws have no effect. Wayne Lapierre. Chief Executive Officer, National Rifle Association states” The 20,000 anti-gun laws already on the books in states, cities, and towns throughout the U.S. too often disarm innocent victims. That's one reason why violent crime is often highest in places with the toughest anti-gun laws.
Because they don’t deter crime as advertised. Between the years of 1980 to 2009 the number of adults under correctional supervision jumped from under two million to over seven million (Glaze, 2009). This overwhelms our prion systems with overcrowding and our state and federal budgets without a significant decline in crime. If all states decided to fully adopt the federal truth-in-sentencing laws and eliminate the parole system altogether then it would burst an already swelling prison population system. One argument is that if the parole system was ended then violent offenders release would not be contested but be automatic at the end of a set period of time (Butterfield, 1999).
To illustrate Senator Dianne Feinstein introduced Assault Weapons Ban legislation that would ban any weapon with a grip on the premise they are too easy to get and used too often for bad (Feinstein). The NRA states “the average annual number of background checks for the last five years, 2007-2011, is 25 percent higher than for NICS’ first five complete years, 1999-2003” (NRA). The NRA also states “In 2009 alone some 1,868,268 pistols were imported or exported by U.S. manufacturers, according to Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) data (NRA). If the old mantra holds true overall crime should be on the rise; however, a 2011 FBI Uniform Crime Report shows violent crime is continuing a decade long downward trend and is down 3.8% from 2010. The recent massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary has overwhelmingly drowned any positive statistics.
On June 21, 1788 nine states had approved the Constitution and under the second amendment Americans gained the right to own firearms (Constitution Day, n.d.). The founders of this country were making sure that its citizens had the right to protect themselves. Today guns are protecting the lives of some but also they are threatening the lives of others. If we as a country deicide to make tighter gun control laws it can lower crime rates. There are different opinions about the Second Amendment.
The debate never went away, which is why it has come back up again. In the book, Gun Control, Senator Rufus King, of New York, was for gun control in 1790. He stated, “That it was dangerous to put our arms into the hands of the frontier people for their defense, lest they should use them against the United States” (Doeden, 17). The same argument still rings true to today. Some Americans still feel that way.
For most age groups, marijuana usage statistics are similar between the Dutch and the Americans. For teenagers specifically, usage rates are much lower in the Netherlands (Fromberg, 113-124). By prohibiting and prosecuting marijuana usage, The United States wastes and forgoes billions of dollars a year. The money is wasted attempting in vain to stop people from using a substance that is not addictive, not detrimental to cognitive performance, and, unlike alcohol, not a catalyst of car accidents. Furthermore, the example of the Netherlands shows that there exists no correlation between legalization and increased usage.
According to Ted Lewis, “Eighty percent of the 75,000 guns Mexican authorities seized from criminals during the past 3 years came from the U.S.” (16). the lack of gun control sales in the U.S. is not only affecting the public safety of our people, but threaten the safety of our neighbors among the
“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
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.