Gun Control
The majority of crimes committed in the United States were accompanied by a weapon, which was usually a gun. The Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research dedicates its service to prevent gun-related deaths and injuries. Studies have proven that in 1997 there were 32,436 gun related deaths which calculated out equals 88 deaths a day. A study by researchers from the University of Chicago, John Lott and David Mustard, showed that violent crime is reduced when citizens have a law that allows them to carry concealed weapons. In 1994 a crime bill was passed that included an assault weapons ban that outlawed the manufacturing and selling of semiautomatic weapons and prohibits the manufacturing of copies. The Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research was established in 1995 and applies an approach to informing the public about guns. The Center attempts to educate the public about firearm injuries and new gun policies. The Center tries to prove that the safety of guns can be regulated as we would regulate the safety of other consumer goods. The Center looks into legal and public strategies to reduce the amounts of injuries and deaths due to the use of guns. The Center creates and evaluates policies to restrict th
John Lott and David Mustard had researched into the law that allowed citizens to carry concealed weapons and came to the conclusion that this law would reduce the amount of gun-related deaths. When Lott and Mustard conducted their research they had misinterpreted some state laws as shall-issue laws although through repeated investigation proves that there is still discretion in issuing a gun permit. The assumptions that the shall-issue laws would create a direct affect on violent crime was proven incoherent by the research done by Dan Black and Daniel Nagin from the Carnegie Mellon University. Although, Vermont has had an allowance of people to carry weapons, openly or concealed without a permit, but Vermont also has the lowest crime rate reported in the country. It has been reported that concealed-weapon permit holders are involved in fewer incidents than off-duty police officers. Lott and Mustard's statistics were founded by the arrest ratio to attempt to show changes ! in the crime rate. This method was shown to be ineffective by the National Academy of Sciences. Their results show that the laws have a meager effect on the amount of robberies, or other street crimes. The main effects the laws detected were for rape, aggravated assault, and murder. These are crimes, but for which a victim carrying a gun in public would usually not be relevant because most of these crimes are committed by someone they would have known. The johns Hopkins Center had reviewed the study by Lott and Mustard and came to the conclusion that their conclusions were insubstantial. http://www.joycefdn.org/programs/gunviolence/gunintro.html The Joyce Foundation: About Our Gun Violence Programs Handgun Control, Inc. states that there is evidence that shows a decrease in the use of assault
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