Pros and cons of gun control Sarah Cooney CJ327W Research Methods in Criminal Justice Dr. Harry O. White, Jr. Western Oregon University Table of Contents Abstract ........................................................................................................................... 3 Introduction ..................................................................................................................... 4 Literature Review .......................................................................................................... 4-11 Methodology………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..12-13 Design………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….13-15 References ........................................................................................................................ 16 Abstract This paper is about the heavily-debated issue of gun control in the United States, breaking down the arguments of Gun Control Activists and Gun Rights Activists. A brief history of gun control is included to provide sufficient awareness to the historical background attached to the issue. Most discussions in this paper focus on both the Pros and Cons of gun control and how research evidence demonstrates that the Second Amendment upholds an individual‘s constitutional right to own and use firearms. The people that will be studied upon will include a broad range of 18 and older people who are students at Western Oregon University.
Push for P-plates until 25 Forcing young drivers to remain on probationary licenses until the age of 25 would cut Victoria's road toll, says the state's top traffic police officer. Under the move, young adults would have to drive with a zero blood alcohol level for an extra three years, or for the first seven years of solo driving. Assistant Commissioner Robert Hill, who wants the community to consider making the change, said 40 per cent of people aged 20 to 25 who were killed or injured on Victorian roads every year were victims of drink-driving. Mr. Hill said medical research showed that the brain did not develop fully until the mid-to-late 20s, particularly the part that controlled decision-making. ''What I'm advocating is a community
Gun Control Persuasive Essay A shot is fired in the city streets and the cries of the helpless, hopeless and innocent go unheard. Once the sound of security, the voice of authority, has become the dark and blood curdling echo of a demon, one that we as a nation have created and if not controlled, will ultimately spiral into the highest handgun crime rate of teenagers, ever recorded(It is not about guns anymore it is about, maintaining control, protecting the well being of the youth and innocent of this country by making well educated decisions to maintain order. Lets talk about America, Canada’s neighbors’ to the south, the voice of democracy, a country who is depicted as the land of the free and a home to the brave. Americans, not much different than Canadians, love and care about family, go to work in order to pay bills and want the protection of their rights and freedoms that were passed down by the founding fathers of their great nation. So I pose the question, what makes Canadians so different, and why does Canada have far fewer deaths by the gun, despite over 1.8 million registered gun owners?1 This issue stands out like a sore thumb, but I believe I know what separates Canada from the United States of America, the fact that America is a nation that is shrouded in deception and run by leaders that instill fear.
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.
Even with the current gun restrictions according to a study at John Hopkins research center “More than a quarter of all guns connected with the Bureau of Alcohol, tobacco, and Firearms investigations (crimes) of illegal gun trafficking.” There is no way that a ban of assault rifles is going stop the purchasing of such rifles. If there was such a ban in America that rivaled the U.K. than it could be assumed or projected that it would American prohibition all over again, and the law of prohibition was the most ignored law in American
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.
If we look at the statistics alone we see in many areas we are already winning. According to the Uniform Crime Reports and Federal Bureau of Investigation arrests for drug law violations this year are expected to exceed the 1,663,582 arrests of 2009. Law enforcement made more arrests for drug abuse violations (an estimated 1.6 million arrests, or 13.0 percent of the total number of arrests) than for any other offense in 2009. Someone is arrested for violating a drug law every 19 seconds.3 The current Commissioner of the New York City Police Department Raymond Kelly said “If you look back in history, if you look back 20 years ago, we had about 25 million drug users in this country. They say that we are down below 13 million now.
Gun Control Debate Paper Gun Control Debate The debate over gun control has been raging for nearly a century, as citizens from both sides of the argument assert their heartfelt and personal views on this sensitive topic. In the after-math of the worse mass shooting in American history involving children at the Sandy Hook Elementary School, President Obama has received demands for action from American citizens who feel that the issue of gun control has been pushed aside far too many times, thus allowing such tragedies to keep occurring. Recent talks regarding stricter gun control laws have sparked a debate between gun owners concerned that their Second Amendment rights will be violated, and fellow Americans concerned for public safety. Those concerned about public safety and the
civilians use guns to defend themselves and others from crime at least 989,883 times per year, for that year there were an estimated 11.6 million offenses. That means that 8.5% of the offenses in the year 2000 were thwarted due to civilian intervention with a firearm. In John R. Lott’s More Guns, Less Crime Lott states that there are 60% fewer multiple-victim shootings and 78% less victims per attack in states that do not have a concealed weapon ban. There are many different statistics that have been compiled to show that gun ownership reduces crime, and just as many that support the opposing view, it is not a matter of whether or not citizens own a gun, it’s a matter of the intent in which they have when it comes to using the gun. 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.
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