Crime and guns. The two seem to go hand in hand with one another. But are the two really associated? Do guns necessarily lead to crime? And if so do laws placing restrictions on firearm ownership and use stop the crime or protect the citizens? These are the questions many citizens and lawmakers are asking themselves when setting about to create gun control laws. The debate over gun control, however, is nothing new. In 1924, Presidential Candidate, Robert La Follete said, “our choice is not merely
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Guns and Violent Crime “A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed” (The Charters of Freedom, n.d.). The National Rifle Association (NRA) is widely recognized as America’s foremost defender of the Second Amendment. Wayne LaPierre executive vice president and CEO of the NRA made the statement, “the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun” (LaPierre, 2012, p.5). Is
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up to 172 and 162 of them involved a firearm (St. Louis Police Department, 2017). The increase of guns owned by young men are beyond control in St Louis (Eckholm, 2015). Missouri is a pro-gun state and gun owners can carry without a permit (Ekcholm, 2015). This not only raises the issue of who in the city are gun owners but how many individuals who are not supposed to have firearms have firearms. Gun-related deaths are on the rise and will only increase from this point on. For the
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important to note that homicide crimes that are gun related caused by Americans who legally own a gun involved in the crime is relatively very low and arguably nonexistent , most of these crimes are perpetuated by individuals that purchased firearms illegally. Instead of penalizing law-abiding gun owners, who use their firearms to save thousands of people every year, lawmakers should work to reduce crimes and gun related homicides by creating harsher penalties for homicides and gun related violence. CASE
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relating to gun crimes and the cause and affect they have on gun ownership. The article takes several things into consideration such as gun types like rifle, shotgun, or handgun, and also whether the owning of a gun increases the related crime. The writer also looked at several different crimes including murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny, and vehicle thefts (Southwick Jr., L. (1997). By looking at the different crimes and the guns used to commit these crimes the researcher
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lecture discussed the use of guns and drugs, in regards to violence and crime. To begin with, gun are the immediate cause of about 40,000 U.S. deaths annually, in the event of injury however, they are less likely to occur if a gun is being used, compared to the using a knife since they are more lethal. For every gun homicide there are 6 gun crime victims who are injured and many more who are threatened. Consequently, suicide rates are higher in homes where an individual owns a gun. That being said, 49%
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Most statistics point to where there are more guns there is less crime. Other people would argue that there is more crime in areas that allow guns. The facts and statistics show differently. Research shows that 98.4% of mass shooting between 1950 and July of 2016 have happened in gun-free zones (Analysis of Recent Mass Shootings). This percentage shows that almost all of the mass shootings from 1950 to 2016 have happened in gun-free zones such as schools, childcare facilities, state and national
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victims who used a gun to resist were less likely to be attacked or to suffer an injury than those who used any other methods of self-protection or those who did not resist at all" It was also noted that people who draw out their guns for self-defense often make the criminal retreat from crime. Without gun control how would someone defend themselves from a criminal in a time of need. Having a gun was meant for this use; protecting yourself. Armed citizens can help reduce crime because according to
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Debate on Gun Control How can we reduce the crime rate? A good solution might be to have more guns! This is suggested by John Lott, who is an economist as well as political commentator. However, Garen Wintemute, the director of the Violence Prevention Research Program at the University of California, Davis, emphasized the negative effect of guns. On one hand, Wintemute believed that less guns lead to less violent crimes. On the other hand, Lott denied the direct relationship between crime rate and
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Gun Control Gun control is defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary as the regulation of selling, owning, and use of guns. Gun control has been a very controversial topic on Capitol Hill for a long time. Although, within more recent decades gun control has been a more heated topic of discussion. This is due to higher gun related death rates and an uprise of mass killings such as the Columbine highschool massacre which left 23 injured and 15 killed (CNN Library) and the recent Las Vegas shooting
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