Gun Control
... ” The murderer lifts up his gun slowly and shoots the father, then proceeds up the stairs. If the father was allowed to have a gun in his house, don’t you think that this scenario would have ended differently? I do not believe that there should be stricter gun control laws. ... Why did they do this you ask, and how does it relate to gun control in the United States? ... All of the major twentieth century genocides in Ottoman Turkey, the Soviet Union, China, and Cambodia have started with gun control, and have resulted in the deaths of over 95 million people (Lott 1). ... It was easy for the Germans to find the firearms owners and prosecute them because of the earlier gun control laws that Hitler induced probably with the eventual extermination of Jews in mind. ... My second argument is that gun control laws have not proven effective, EVER. “Gun control advocates believe that Washington, D. ... 6 per 100,000 is due to strict gun control, but Arlington, Virginia’s high murder rate of 1.6 per 100,000 is attributable to the lack of gun control” (Williamson 2). Proof that gun control is ineffective is clearly represented with Mayor Richard Daley’s reforms in Chicago. The Second Amendment foundation concluded that, “Strict gun control in Chicago has worked…to once again boost the homicide rate, making the windy city the most murderous city in the nation for the past 12 months” (Second Amendment Foundation 1). ... Do you think that the September 11 tragedy would have turned out differently if pilots were allotted to keep a gun in a lockbox in the cockpit? ... Citing data from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), he also exposed data showing that popular methods of gun control, such as the Brady Bill, have had little to no effect on crime. ... " Stossel also talked about how many states have passed what he called "gun un-control" in the form of concealed carry laws, which have been shown to be an effective deterrent to violent crime (Chisholm 2).