Moore expresses in his documentary that Canada and America has a similar number of firearms but Canada has a substantial number of fewer gun related deaths. Every country has guns but no country has as many deaths from guns like America does. The only explanation Mr. Moore can come up with is that Americans are generally more afraid, more uptight, and more chaotic than the rest of the world. The gun related deaths in America usually come from situations of fear, chaos, and stupidity. No other country in the world kills their own people from guns like America does, but they all have a substantial amount of guns just like America does.
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.
In addition, we do have a grave problem which has been controverted for a long time that is gun control ordinance in the social life. Gun violence and accidents are increasing every year. In the United States, most of the states can buy guns legally, and some of the states’ purchase requires no license. Some states in the United States have a strict gun control law. One of them is District of Columbia.
Majority of the laws that congress is passing are only good for the typical Caucasian male and not for the African American male and or the African American teen male that typically tends to end up in the worst case situation. The reason I say it is typically for the Caucasian male is because the laws that we have on guns are more along the lines for hunting like the NRA law that states that “as long as you are 13 with a hunters license you can buy and or sell a hunters rifle”. If you ask me the NRA doesn’t know how to control themselves let alone a gun. Many people think that since the NRA has been in business since the 1720s they know what they are talking but that’s not the case. A movement to ban handguns began in the 1920s in the Northeastern, led by the conservative business establishment.
Running head: Week 8 A Problem That Needs To Be Solved. An issue that seems to be on the rise more and more as time goes by is gun control. A lot of people believe that guns kill people. But I believe that careless people with guns kill people. No one ever said that guns killed Osama Bin Laden.
Political Issues Zach Johnson Gun control has been a major interest in the publics eyes for many years and if a politician backs gun control or if he is totally against it, whichever way he chooses can swing many Americans to vote for there party. Most Americans that are against gun control are the country men and women that make hunting a big part of their lives, and most of the mid-west states will vote for the man that is against gun control. On the other hand most people that are for gun control are people that come from the cities and the only time they see a gun is if it is pulled on them while they were getting robbed. These people are manly on the coast of American. There are many gun control Advocates and there are just as
“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
Maybe not so coincidentally, Republicans are more likely to watch the scariest news channel of them all: Fox. Whites are twice as likely to own a gun as nonwhites -- and it may also not be a coincidence that gun purchases have suddenly spiked since November 2008. Proponents of gun control are baffled that horrific massacres such as the one in Aurora, Colorado, do not lead to stricter gun control. They have their causation
A lot of people state that gun control would be the obvious solution and many would agree with this. Yet this solution doesn’t seem to be as beneficial as one may think. An article published by the New York Times stated that 60 to 65 million Americans own over 200 million firearms. According to Firearms and Ammunition Industry Economic Report 2012, weapon manufactures employ over a quarter of a million people in the United States. Not only would us the people suffer, but also so would the government and our whole economy.
In the United States men and women own over 250+ million firearms. These people own guns to give themselves security and safety against violent home intruders, but there are those who think otherwise. The Opposition of gun ownership rights say that the guns in society are the leading causes of violent gun crimes. However, whether guns are legal or not, they will end up in criminal hands, and once they are in the hands of criminals, there is nothing to stop these criminals from injuring and killing defenseless citizens. Guns have been a controversial issue for nearly a century, but guns have been in American hands since its foundation.