The Pros And Cons Of Stricter Gun Control Laws

Since Oregon ‘s massacre that occurred two months ago, the debate over the cause of the U.S.’s unparalleled gun violence has re-emerged. Some American citizen are with put stricter Guns Control laws and some of them are against put stricter Guns Control laws. “The United States has 90 guns for every 100 citizens, making it the most heavily armed society in the world, with American citizens owning about 270 million of the world’s 875 million firearms”( McInnis,2007). Indeed, this is more than a quarter of the world’s registered firearms. It has seemed as if Americans have always had an obsession with owning guns. With the laws allowing U.S. citizens the right to bear arms, they have always been quick to take advantage of it and scoff at

Michael W, shows in his article “We Need Stricter Gun Laws” how the data show that strict gun laws reduce violent crime.For example, there is a correlation between restrictive laws and lower homicide rates with and without firearms, both within the United States and internationally. Moreover, a recent study published in the Southern Medical Journal found that the presence of a gun in a home is twelve times more likely to lead to the death of a member of the household or a visitor than an intruder.( we need,2014). With stronger gun control laws, the crime and murder rates will decrease all across the country. Countries with strict gun control have less crime. If we take England for example, it has completely illegalized the ownership or usage of guns except for the military and occasionally the police. Since then, England has one of the lowest crime and murder rates in Western Europe, if not the lowest. “After 16 children and their teacher were killed by a gunman in Dunblane, Scotland, in 1996, the British government banned all private ownership of automatic weapons and virtually all handguns. Those changes gave Britain some of the toughest gun control laws in the developed world on top of already strict rules. Hours of exhaustive paperwork are required if anyone wants to own even a shotgun or rifle for hunting. The result has been a decline in murders involving firearms”.( In Other Countries, DEC. 17,

You would think that when owning something as dangerous as a gun, people would be somewhat careful. Though that might be the case for some, many don't know how to safely use and store their weapon. It is because of this that children are finding their parents guns and accidentally shooting themselves or even someone else. Also, more and more we are seeing the growing trend of school shoot-outs. Teens are either buying guns or taking their parents' and shooting up schools many times killing or injuring other students. There have been 96 school shootings since Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting according to “gun facts” website. “380 children age 14 or under were killed with firearms in 2010, or 0.0005% of the children in America and barely more than one child per day. Of those, 58% of those were homicides, likely innocent bystanders in drive-by scenarios.”(gun fact,2014). Furthermore, More than 1,300 children commit suicide with guns. We should keep children away from guns for their own safety. In conclusion, guns control laws is very important and necessary because the stricter Guns Control laws can reduce the crimes, make our lives safer and protect our children from these massacres. We need stricter gun control laws to prevent more people from perishing in mass shootings. This should no longer be a question of if these laws would infringe on a freedom that Americans