However, Arthur Strang neglecting to keep his gun stored in a safe place is not a good enough reason to take away guns from the millions of responsible gun owners. What happened to the child was unfortunate, a terrible accident. But “They Each Had A Gun” raises a good point; more children by far die by fire than by guns, yet we do not ban or license matches. The same situation with Arthur Strang’s son and Bruce Kammerer could have taken place if you replace the gun with a knife or an accidental swing of a baseball bat, yet we are not in a rush to ban these items because that is not their only purpose. The same applies to a
An increasing number of studies show that driving while talking on a cellphone can be dangerously distracting. Yet most states have not banned handheld phones, and most have not banned all drivers from using hands-free devices. Some say cellphone bans are simply not enforceable. Others argue that drivers do all sorts of distracting things while driving, like eating, arguing with kids in the back seat and listening to music so it makes little sense to outlaw one activity. According to the president of the National Safety Council “talking on a cellphone while driving makes a person four times more likely to be in a crash, which has a much higher risk than most other distracting activities, it’s the cellphone conversation that diverts people’s attention from the road” (Froetscher 2).
Guns do not kill people, people kill people. Drunk drivers and texting are one of the most causes of car wrecks but yet we do not outlaw these items. All the shootings and stuff that has happened is not because the gun wanted to do it but the person controlling the gun. Fertilizer killed people in Oklahoma on April 19, 1995 but you can still buy it and rent a van for less than buying a gun. It is not the guns fault for people wanting to kill people.
Since law enforcers are not enough to ensure safety for every citizens, citizens should be allowed to protect themselves. Opponents of gun control like NRA also argue that gun control policies are for authoritarian models of government like the Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy (Rogers, 2013). These are governments that disarm the population due to the fear of being overthrown due to their bad governance and violation of human rights. Therefore, democrats should not be afraid of being overthrown by disarming citizens if they respect human
Much of the argument over stop and frisk lies in numbers.” For instance, the NYPD says its policy has led to a falling murder rate and more gun seizures, with homicides down 21 percent this year and the number of illicit guns seized up 31 percent from last year”(Huffington post). If this tactic results in this much of a drop in homicides and an increase of thirty one percent in illicit guns seized, why not use it. This tactic obviously helps keep the streets a little safer. Most if not all cities that imply stop and frisk experience a dramatic drop in crime rate. “The reality is that crime has gone way down in New York City and that stop and frisk has certainly contributed to it.
The data was collected for 1999 and 2001. The analysis concluded that gun control laws do not reduce crime rates nor the hypothesis that lax gun-control laws in neighboring states undermine the effectiveness of state gun laws (Moorhouse, J and Wanner, B.). Those advocates of stricter gun control laws would cite a similar study that was conducted in Australia. The Australian study compared mass murders before and after 1996, a year of widely publicized mass murders in Tasmania. After the mass murders in Tasmania, Australia enacted gun law reform that removed semi automatic firearms, pump action shotguns, and rifles from civilian possession.
Gun control Gun restriction legislation is currently in progress to stop the sale of automatic rifles, and clip size. These new proposed legislations would not stop the mass killings that caused this new kind of fear. While nothing is going to happen like the gun laws in England, where private ownership of a assault rifle is non existent, the government is trying to stop these killings that have struck fear into the American public, alternatively no one is proposing the laws in Switzerland that state it is not right for guns laws to be restricted in any way. The current gun restrictions on a nation-wide basis differs from state to state, however, one law is clear throughout the whole nation “the right of the people to keep and
No matter how careful a driver you may be, when you do something else while driving, whether its drinking coffee, listening to music, scanning the GPS, or making a phone call, you endanger the people around you, and including yourself, because you are distracted from your driving. An accident needs only a couple microseconds to occur. Even though no state can ban people for changing radio stations or applying makeup while driving, all states can, and should, make it illegal to drive while talking on a cellular phone. Since the rise of popularity of cellphones in the past years, the number of accidents caused by people talking on their mobile devices has also increased. Whether they were in an argument, receiving a message, or simply dialing a number, they were momentarily distracted from the task of driving.
Driving Skills In all my years of driving I have received two speeding tickets, and I have had no accidents. I never noticed the bad driving skills of others, or been more scared of other drivers than when my son got behind the wheel of a vehicle for the first time. From the time I began teaching my sixteen-year-old son to drive, I have observed motorists turning without signaling, vehicles barely stopping at stop signs or stop lights, and drivers talking or texting while driving. The first worrisome driving skill I noticed was that many people fail to use their turn signal. My son Travis had to hit his brakes unexpectedly because a young girl in front of him did not use her blinker as she turned the corner.
Some states have banned the use of use of cellphone use unless used with a hands free device and some states banned texting while driving. If all cell phone use is banned while driving, some accidents will not occur. Are accidents rates lower for drivers that do not use cell phones? We know that car accidents happen daily, caused by faulty equipment and weather. The truth of the matter is that sometimes accidents cannot be avoided, but if adding in a distraction such as cell phone use, it increases the accident rate.