Take three of our most friendly “neighbors” for example, in 1995, handguns were used in twenty-two homicides in England, sixty-eight in Canada, eighty-seven in Japan and 11,719 in America (Rosslyn, 5). In Moorhouse and Wanner’s article “Does gun control reduce crime or does crime increase gun control?” in The Cato Journal, study showed in New York City, the number of murders that occur in one year is seventeen times greater than in Northern Ireland who’s plagued by terrorism (Moorhouse and Wanner, 4). This degree of violence is unheard of in any other parts of the world, one may ask, why is there such an inconsistency between these nations? The fact that Germany, France, Canada, England, and Japan essentially ban handguns to the general public demonstrates the effectiveness of rigorous gun control. In addition, field studies were conducted in Portland and Vancouver to prove the effectiveness of gun control.
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.
While most people would by a gun for conventional purposes such as self-defense, hunting, or target shooting, it is inevitable that there will be people who buy a gun in order to use it for robbery, murder, rape, or a number of other heinous crimes, but depriving those who would use their firearm without malicious intent of their second amendment right does not rectify this horrible fact. The issue of gun control is not solely found in the United States, there are many other countries that have taken to banning weapons in an attempt to reduce their homicide rates. In the late 1990s and early 2000s Belarus, Luxemburg and Russia all had handgun bans, ironically enough these countries had on average 10 times the murder rate than that of their neighboring countries which did not have a
Beatrice Porter SOC120 Ethic and Social Responsibility 10-18-2012 After reading the article “Some Moral Minima” I totally agree with issues he points out on several things such as murder, rape, terrorism, incest, polygamy, and the other disturbing issues mentioned. I can’t think of a logical reason that at any point raping someone or sleeping with a child of yours would consider ok in today’s society but then again everyone has their idea of what is considered right and wrong. Why would anybody argue this? Every human being has the right to have a safe healthy life without harm especially a child. Children are innocent and they look to us adults and parents as someone they should be able to trust and feel safe with.
Ethan and Sharon are the two greatest secret agents the world has ever known. They were masters of disguise, experts of invention, and so amazing that they were able to stop wars before they even start. Working for separate countries, they are sent to eliminate their most dangerous enemy which happened to be each other. But, in a mysterious corner of the world, they finally come face to face. Instead of taking each other out like the mission intended they end up falling in love and taking on the most dangerous mission they have ever faced; raising a family.
This does not even take into account the huge number of drownings, burns, sexual assaults, suicides and homicides that have been averted by the "21" law. Twenty-one was a great victory for MADD and for the nation. Since then we have made great progress, but the problem has not been solved. Underagedrinking is still America's number one youth drug problem killing more teens than all the other illicit drugs combined. And in recent years alcohol-related traffic deaths have crept up for both teens and adults.
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.
and Robert Kennedy the 1960’s were two foundational instances when the government knew they had to act and strengthen gun control laws. Gun control laws have always been an issue for every state. One of the biggest issues is that we don’t have enough people that are willing to speak up for stricter gun control laws. According to an Associated Press poll in December, “only half of Americans thought that gun laws should be stricter and 15% actually said they should be less strict.” I think we can all agree that gun control laws should be stricter. There are people who are mentally ill that are able to purchase guns with the intent of killing people.
According to the report by DeutschePresse via Bloomberg, the United States – surprisingly – leads the world for the possession of the firearms. The number of guns owned by civilians in the United States is between 238 million and 276 million, making a country of 268 million people the most armed possession in the world (“THE TRUTH ABOUT GUNS, CRIME AND VIOLENCE”). This is a very serious problem as bearing a weapon in the house is never safe and can be very fatal to all the people felling themselves safe within the boundary of the United States. It is clear from the above data that there are more guns in the US than the people themselves. For someone to die, one bullet is enough, so we can imagine how many lives can be taken from all those guns.
The most important thing that everyone should think about is dying happy, maybe all of the people that have committed assisted suicide, left this world feeling better since they don’t have to suffer more. Everyone should decide for themselves there shouldn’t be someone deciding whether is legal or illegal to commit assisting suicide since it’s not their