Gun Control Synthsis Paper
When you mention gun control, many things come to mind. School shooting, the Brady Law, second amendment rights, and kids killing kids, these issues have prompted a controversy over guns and whether they are a menace to society. There are many types of guns and each contributes to crime differently. The smaller more easily concealed weapons, like handguns and sawed off shotguns are most likely to be used in crime. While the larger firearms, rifles, have a slightly lower reported incidence of crime. Crimes reported that involve an assault weapon such as the Uzi is virtually unheard of. Views on the subject of gun control range from one extreme, all guns are bad, to the other extreme that all existing laws should be revoked and every person should own a gun. In the discussion on gun control there are a few points that everyone argues about. Two of the most popular topics on gun control seem to be, do guns contribute to crime, and would tougher gun laws prevent gun fatalities? With all the different subjects discussed within the gun control controversy, the topic of how tougher laws would affect the death rate, associated with firearms, seems to be most common. Dennis Henigan believes that the laws need to be redirect
www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m1571/3_16/59035553/p1/article.jhtml ed toward better safety features on guns, to prevent some accidental shootings. Henigan also believes that the gun manufacturers should be liable for the lack of safety devices that could prevent accidental shootings. Morgan O. Reynolds and W.W. Caruth III believe, that the laws, proposed for the control of gun crime, would rase the price for purchasing a gun; but do little for preventing crime from being committed with them. According to Woody West, guns are responsible for the deaths of many people, some of which are innocent, but before we make new laws we should try enforcing the scores of laws already enacted, but not enforced. On the far end of the argument against controlling crime through banning guns sits David B. Kopel with his opinion that "banning guns to reduce crime makes as much sense as banning alcohol to reduce drunk driving." Moving from one extreme to the other, the Associated Press released an article that sites the Brady Law with saving more than nine thousand lives, and urges more stringent regulation of firearms. Associated Press. CRIME - GUNS = LIVES SAVED. July 27, 2000. October 2, 2000. www.handguncontrol.org/press/release.asp?Record=5 Kopel, David. TRUST THE PEOPLE: THE CASE AGAINST GUN CONTROL. Policty Analysis 109. July 11, 1998. September 12, 2000 www.x76.deja.com/=infoseej/getdoc.xp?AN=66810151431&CONTENXT=96876313697568897&hitnun=32
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Approximate Word count = 1054
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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