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The Pros And Cons Of Stricter Gun Control Laws

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How can the crime be done if there are stricter limits for owning guns? If so many people didn’t have ownership of guns would homicide be a problem? Often times authority do not need stricter penalties they just need stricter gun control laws. Although gun laws are good for making sure guns don’t end up in the wrong hands, it also limits citizen’s rights to be able defend themselves if something goes wrong. Homicide is a major problem in the U.S. What is homicide? Homicide is the deliberate and unlawful killing of one person by another; murder. There are four main points that argues why there should stricter gun control rather than stricter penalties. My first point is there should be stricter gun control and not stricter penalties because …show more content…

Although there are many questions to ask, two questions frequently asked when talking about this topic is usually “Should there be stricter legal penalties?” or “Should there be stricter gun control laws?” for homicide in the U.S. If you think about these questions you have to think deep from both point of views. If there are stricter penalties people would be put in jail for a longer period of time then they really need to be. Therefore the jails would consist of new comers and people who have been there for a very long time until filled to capacity. That would then cause another problem in the U.S. The crime could also be a misunderstanding and the person that’s put in jail for a longer period of time may have not actually commit the crime. So, there should be stricter gun control laws rather than stricter penalties. If there was a stricter limit to who guns are distributed to then the guns wouldn’t get into the wrong hands. For example, in Baltimore there are a lot of people who own guns but majority of them do not have a license to have ownership. If there’s someone trying to purchase a gun there should be experts to take the extra step to investigate the persons background instead of letting just anyone purchase a gun. On statista.com, they showed a graph displaying the number of murders in the United States by state. The stats showed murder and nonnegligent manslaughter. This source revealed that “In …show more content…

It doesn’t specifically affect the homicide rate. Whether the economic state id good or bad people will commit homicide depending on the person they are. On heritage.org they assume that crime rates should drop during good economic times and rise during bad ones. When they actually observed and looked at the studies they realized the rate decreased in bad economic times. People would be more focused on trying to survive rather than killing others. Years ago when people were struggling through the Great Depression and other severe economic downturn in 1937 and 1938 crime rates fell about one third between 1934 and 1938. This reveals that homicide rates doesn’t have anything to do with the state the economy is in whether it’s a good state or a bad state. Race is something that could play a role in murder rate. Race can affect the murder rate because of how society looks at things. On USNew.com they said black people who killed whites and whites who killed blacks climbed to their highest level. There are stats that reveals a lot of black on white homicides and white on black homicides which is bad. Black on white homicide is an issue but there is a large number of African Americans that are victims of homicide. Though time has went by and its way pass slavery things still aren’t equal. An African American is more likely to get killed than a white person. Race could also play a role in conviction rate. Conviction is a formal

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