Gun Control Solution

The solution to gun violence in the United States is the solution to lowering violent crime in general and that does not include what is today being called tighter gun laws. The evidence of strict gun laws working is not nearly convincing enough to justify infringing upon our Constitutional right to bear arms. The evidence backs this up. Looking state by state at how stricter and looser gun laws, as well as gun ownership correlate to gun violence and murder rate, there is no direct correlation that can be found. There are states with strict gun laws, low gun ownership and high murder rates as well as some with relatively low gun violence and murder rates. Same goes for states with more loose gun laws and higher gun ownership, there are those with good and states with bad murder and gun violence rates. A recent example of gun laws being ratcheted up as well as a buyback is Australia. They cut down on private ownership of guns by 20% and in turn cut down on homicides by a minimal amount overall, but have cut down on mass shootings completely when calling a mass shooting more than five people which is good. The idea of rifles slaying the American population is just not true when identifying the culprit for most murders. Handguns far and away outnumber any other form of murder weapon. The interesting thing is no one mentions knives to control or ban when they kill four times as many people as rifles in the United States. More people get beaten to death than get killed by rifles, so the notion of rifles being the main culprit of violent crime is completely untrue. If both these things are true; there is no correlation between stricter gun laws and lower ownership and a decrease in gun violence, and that you would have to tighten not just laws on rifles, but on handguns, all the while knowing people get stabbed four times as often as they get killed with a rifle. This leads me to a true solution to what people are trying to accomplish with gun control and banning. To protect schools security is put in place, such as veterans or cops who are ready to respond at an instant, this eliminates schools from becoming a target, as potential threats know they are going to be met with an someone ready to take them down, not a building full of people unable to defend themselves. To solve the long term issue of violence in general, we must solve the public education system and stop it from failing so many of those who turn to crime and desperation and eventually poverty, which I perceive to be the biggest issue . When we eliminate poverty, we eliminate the vast majority of violent crime. While it is not a simple problem, we must find the true root issues, not the ones being thrown at us on headlines and instead find real statistics and how they relate to one another.

Gun Control/Ban Critique

Today more than ever gun control is at the forefront of the national spotlight with many clamoring for what they perceive is gun control. This article by m2c4 aims to show the path toward progress in relation to gun control. The writer brings many examples of how legislators are beginning to enact stricter gun laws at the state level such as Florida raising the age to buy a gun to twenty-one. Also mentioned is, in South Carolina, a seven percent tax on firearms has been proposed which would go toward funding security for schools.What fails to resonate with me is the lack of evidence that any of these actions create any kind of change in gun violence, especially when talking about even stricter gun laws. The idea that the gun debate has turned a corner and is headed toward the absolute resolution is ludicrous and a sad political stunt in anticipation for elections. The evidence for any of these laws working toward a safer community is flat out not there, as it always is when people talk about gun control/bans. most ideas work perfectly in theory, but the real world is not theory. People have to look at actual statistics and see the root of the problem has not been exposed by the national public and that is poverty and mental health. Not solving these issues is going to lead to no progress in way of violence, by gun or by whatever else, such as knives which are close to four times as deadly when compared to rifles/ar15s/semi auto rifles/ whatever else uninformed public call them. So, instead of banning knives we should instead support our communities and solve the real culprits, above mentioned. Putting security guards in schools is the perfect solution for me, which the author does not make clear they support or not. Giving these jobs to veterans, cops, or other upstanding, willing members of the community would take the target off of schools, as the shooters to be would understand that there is someone waiting for them with a gun, not people with no way to defend themselves.