The Brady Bill imposes a five-day waiting period on the acquisition of firearms. During this period, background checks are ran on the persons purchasing the weapon. If the buyer is found to be mentally unstable, a convicted felon or otherwise dangerous, the gun will not be sold to them. Gun control activists argue that this waiting period reduces the chance of a passion crime or suicide by providing a cool down period for the would-be assailant. Waiting periods do not attack the root of the problem.
The use of taser guns have only been used in law enforcement in the last ten year, however; private agencies have used them for over two decades. The normal use of a taser guns by law enforcement officers is to immobilize a person who is deemed a threat. While law enforcement officials should try to avoid using force, stun guns are a better option than firearms. Taser guns used by law enforcement officers can shoot out to electrical leads with small metal barbs on the end of them. When these leads make contact with a person it releases a 50,000 volts electrical shock for a period of five seconds, however, most taser’s generally pass only about 1200 volts.
70 percent is an unbelievable high number when it comes to homicides. How do you suppose the percent of killings increased to 70 without people being able to purchase a gun? Yes, there are some regulations on buying guns today but obviously not enough if guns cause 70 percent of homicides. When someone is buying a gun they are not going to tell the employees that they are going to go crazy and kill people. The owners of the gun stores are actually not responsible with what the clients do with the gun; therefore the employees have to do a background check
Politicians have stated thy will introduce new laws wanting tougher background checks, forced registration, and outright banning of military looking firearms. All these types of new laws will cut down on crime and make this country a safer place. But I believe the way to protect against a bad person with a gun is a good person with a gun. First of all on the issue of it will cut down on violent crime, who are they kidding criminals rarely obey laws; studies show most criminals acquire guns through friends or theft. Adam Lanza the shooter at Newtown stole the guns he used from his mother.
Such questions gained traction when a man with a history of mental impairment died after being stunned multiple times with a taser by police (The Post and Courier, 2009). Their have been reported deaths related to the use of stun guns like the taser (The Post and Courier, 2009). While low in rate, a few deaths were associated with excessive rounds of stun gun shocks (The Post and Courier, 2009). Whether stun guns led to or played a role in the majority of deaths in question remains unclear (The Post and Courier,
The problem with guns is fairly obvious: they decrease the difficulty of killing or injuring a person. In Jeffrey A. Roth's Firearms and Violence (NIJ Research in Brief, February 1994), he points out the obvious dangers. About 60 percent of all murder victims in the United States in 1989 (about 12,000 people) were killed with firearms. Firearm attacks injured another 70,000 victims, some of whom were left permanently disabled. In 1985, the cost of shootings was an estimated $14 billion nationwide for medical care, long-term disability, and premature death.
Especially with males ages 16 to 25, this age group is the least likely to buckle up. Do to the fact that they do not believe they will be injured or killed. And this is bad new because this is the nation’s highest risked drivers, with drunk driving and more speeding and more crashes then any other age group. Crashes were a seat belt is not worn kills an estimated 9,500 people each year. Yet only 68% of the people buckle up.
Not only did this study state that the weapons banned were only used in a small percent of crimes even before the ban, but also "found no statistical evidence of post-ban decreases in either the number of victims per gun-homicide incident, the number of gunshot wounds per victim, or the proportion of gunshot victims with multiple wounds. "(Koper, Roth 67) So even if Congress bans these vaguely named assault weapons it will most likely be as ineffective as the last time they did so. Some take issue with the ban not because of its’ functionality problems, but because they feel it violates their rights as
Gun Control “How many have to die before we will give up these dangerous toys?” This quote is from Stephen King a famous author and it was in support of banning assault weapons. Stricter gun laws will cut down on gun related deaths and will also prevent future acts of terror and violence. In 2011 there was 12,664 murders in the United States, 6,220 were due to handguns alone, that is about 49% of the total murders. This horrifying number has been the cause of some pretty big arguments over the last 4 years and let me tell you why. Most gun activists stand by the 2nd amendment but does it really make sense to do that lets just think for a second why was the 2nd amendment made?
America has the highest amount of ownership of guns in the world; it has 88.8 firearms per 100 people. The numbers are huge and are increasingly rising every day. Somehow we have to control the sales of guns and make sure we are selling them rapidly to the right and responsible people. There are many reasons to why adults own a gun: maybe for their protection and self –defense, or maybe because they go hunting. If the adults cannot buy a gun legally there is always the other option, to get them from selling them illegally When responsible adults buy a gun, they most likely will not use it to murder people.