The Pros And Cons Of Gun Control Laws

The Brady Act would be strength based if there were not loopholes in the law for getting guns such as not requiring background checks for private sellers, online gun dealers, and trade shows. However, new laws that close the loopholes and tighter gun control laws that include several laws are strength based because they do lower the death rates and violence caused from firearms. Research studies show a correlation between states that do have strict gun laws compared to others that are lax. One study done by the “researchers at Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and Harvard School of Public Health, uses a measure of state-by-state legislative strength of gun control policies tracked by the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence,

His order doesn't rewrite existing laws, but it would broaden the scope of who is in the gun-selling business. It would require more gun sellers online and at gun shows to be licensed (and perform checks) among other things” (Kurtzleben, 2016). Background checks combined with many other laws for gun control can work together by making it tougher for someone to get a gun that should not have one it is not about taking rights away to others only for offenders and others who could cause harm to others or themselves. “Gun-policy researchers say they want to better study background checks as well as many other policies, but a couple of hurdles stand in the way. Part of the problem is that good studies on the effectiveness of background checks are pretty rare, according to Webster. One reason is that it's hard to find good test cases to study. There’s not a lot of change or variation in laws to study in recent times, he said. The vast majority of these laws have been on the books for many, many decades” (Kurtzleben, 2016). We can say that background checks can make a difference along with other tighter gun control laws from some studies that have been done. However, for us to have a clearer picture on what works and what does not we need to fund research for gun control issues which is lacking? “Federal restrictions, passed in 1996 that said the Centers for Disease Control could not use its funding to "advocate or promote gun control." That caused the CDC to back away from gun research almost entirely. Outside organizations could pick up that slack, Hemenway added, but they have not done so. "The foundations haven't done a good job, because it's such a controversial area," he said. You don't want to get involved. So we know some things, but we don't know as well as you would hope, given the enormity of the problem” (Kurtzleben, 2016). In final analysis, passing background checks for everyone is a