The first dependent variable to be examined was the amount of people that owned guns in relation to the independent variable, age. From the table it I clear that a high majority of people have at least one gun in their household. People belonging to the younger age group, 18-30, are more likely have one gun in their household than people in the older age groups, 31-50 and 51-95. Another thing that we can infer from this table is that in most households you will only find one gun. From the table we can see that about 87% of people have at least one gun in their house, while the other 13% of people have two or more.
Now that there is a good understanding of how many households have guns in them, and how many, it is time to examine how those people view gun laws. Table 2 analysis’s the views of different races on whether there should be stricter gun laws or not. By looking at Table 2 we can see that both black and other agree that there should be more restriction on guns, with 87%. This is slightly higher than the 68% of white people that also voted yes. From this we can infer that people that identify as white are more less likely to be fore more gun restrictions that people of color. Even though some groups might be more for more restrictions on guns than others, we can still see from the table that only 28% of people believe that we shouldn’t have more gun restrictions while
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In table 3 below we can see that 83% of females agree that there should be more restrictions on guns, while only 60% of men do. When looking at who disagrees more with having more restrictions on guns we can see that men are more likely to disagree than women. Even though there is an obvious difference in the responses give from both women and men, we can still see that with 72% both men and women agree that there should be more restrictions on
In America guns have been a part of the country’s society since it’s birth. Throughout history the citizens of the US have used firearms to protect the nation, protect their families, hunt for food and engage in sporting activities. The issue of Guns and gun control is complex. Weighing the rights and liberties of the individual against the welfare and safety of the public has always been a precarious balancing act. In the United States, gun control is one of these tumultuous issues that has both sides firmly entrenched in their positions. Those parties in favor of gun ownership and the freedom to use and keep arms, rely on the fact that the provision for such rights is enshrined in their constitution. In this climate of growing violence, rife with turmoil and crime, gun advocates feel more than ever that their position is justified. As citizens of the “Land of the Free” possessing a gun is a fundamental right, and may even be a necessity... Anti- gun lobbyists point to the same growing violence and gun related crimes in an effort to call on the government to take action. By enacting more laws and stricter control, these people not in favor of guns feel society would be better safer.
Violence and gun control laws are strongly correlated for both political parties, but inversely so. Whereas Democrats believe lessening crime requires stricter gun control laws, Republicans believe lessening crime requires less strict gun control laws. However, as Cronin has shown, the need to identify with a political party should not distort facts about gun control, nor be the sole reason for an opinion in favor of, or in opposition to gun ownership.
According to polls, many citizens believe that more people owning guns makes them feel less safe (Hemenway).
Gun control is a very delicate issue with many different sides and viewpoints. On one side you have those that feel gun control is a necessary item for safety. Others feel it is unjust to take away a person's right to have firearms. Those people also feel that gun control won't help stop crime either. Anyway you look at it, guns have become one of the main causes of death in the United States. Firearms are first among young black men. This makes gun control an issue that must be taken care of. Gun control will not help, for it is the people that should be punished not everyone else.
Aroung the time of John F. Kennedy’s assassination, the controversial and widely argued issue of gun control sparked and set fire across America. In the past decade however, it has become one of the hottest topics in the nation. Due to many recent shootings, including the well known Sandy Hook Elementary school, Columbine High School, Aurora movie theater, and Virginia Tech, together totaling 87 deaths, many people are beginning to push for nationwide gun control. An article published in the Chicago Tribune by Illinois State Senator Jacqueline Collins, entitled “Gun Control is Long Overdue” voiced the opinion that in order for America to remain the land of the free, we must take action in the form of stricter gun laws. On the contrary, Kathleen Parker, a member of the Washington Post Writers Group whose articles have appeared in the Weekly Standard, Time, Town & Country, Cosmopolitan, and Fortune Small Business, gives a different opinion on the subject. Her article in The Oregonian “Gun Control Conversation Keeps Repeating” urges Americans to look at the cultural factors that create ...
The implementation of gun control in the United States is a large problem as it will take away the 2nd Amendment rights of citizens, while preventing law abiding citizens from protecting themselves from criminals.( Noyes, 3) The right to bear arms is promised to citizens of the United States. Crime is very high in states that have loose gun control laws. The state of Texas is known to have the most lenient gun control laws of any state in America.( Noyes, 6) However, the solution of taking guns away from people who are registered and licensed to carry them with no criminal record is not the answer to the problem. Americans have never responded well historically to prohibitions. (Baldauf, 7). Public concern about gun control has grown in Texas in the last two years due to the constant violence caused by Mexican drug cartels on the Mexico and Texas border. People in Texas have different beliefs when it comes to gun control, there are those who believe gun control laws are effective in reducing crime, those who believe that gun control laws are ineffective against crime, and those who believe that private owner ship of guns reduces crime.
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that were created and then dismissed, the statistics covering questions on gun-control, and finally, discussing the results in my perspective of gun-control. I do stand on the opposing side of gun-control for multiple reasons that I described in the discussion, but I do understand where the proponents are coming from. Guns are very dangerous and should, yes, always be regulated, but only to an extent. Guns are our freedom of survival and our ability to hunt for game. Our country has gone centuries with this law standing its place in the Constitution, so I wouldn’t agree with getting rid of it when statistics show we’re more likely to go downhill then up. In my perspective, when you give someone a gun in order to protect themselves, they will understand the meaning of that gun. When you take away someone’s firearms when dealing with someone who does have a firearm, in my opinion, that person will beg you for a gun. The right to bear arms is a very protective, yet dangerous amendment, but in order to keep our homeland safe, sometimes those types of decisions must be made. The controversy over our right to bear arms will most likely remain active for the time being, and that’s understandable, but hopefully our government and majority of our society realizes the bigger picture
There are essentially two sides to gun control those who favor it and those who don’t, they are either absolutely opposed to guns, or absolutely opposed to gun regulation.
Guns and crime seem to fit together like peanut butter and jelly, but is that really the case? There are two ways to look at gun control, but one realization that needs to be made and that’s that guns are powerful. Guns can either be used for defending and protecting people or they can be used to harm and kill people. People have different views on whether guns are being used for protection or being used to harm and kill others. The majority of people that think guns are being used for safety and defense oppose gun control laws. On the other hand the majority of people who think guns are being used to heartlessly slaughtered people are for stricter gun control laws. People opposed to gun control thinking it will be taking away some of their rights; whereas, those in favor of gun control thinking it will help protect people.
Supporters of gun control state that to decrease crimes committed with fire arms (which amass a high majority of crimes) guns should be banned from private ownership. This removes guns from the public, therefore taking away the instrument of easily accomplishing crimes. Arthur Kellermann and Donald T. Raey, two gun control advocates, did their own research into the issue and published a discovery of their own; the 43-1 Statistic. In this statistic, Kellerman and Raey state that a gun will be used in a justified shooting one time, while forty three other people are killed by a gun unjustly, either by suicide, accident, or criminal (Heumer 9). According to these two researchers, gun ownership is not worth it. Private ownership of guns saved one life wh...
There is an American consensus for some form of gun control. “…[F]irearms were involved in two-thirds of all murders in the United States and [t]he United States leads the world's richest nations in gun deaths…murders, suicides, and accidental deaths due to guns - according to a study published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the International Journal of Epidemiology” (Lepore). There might be some far extreme people who think that all guns should be banned but most sane Americans do not think that gun rights should be abolished. Americans regard self-defense as the most compelling reason to have a gun and twenty-two percent of households have handguns in the United States. However many people do think that gun control laws must be enacted and enforced. Pro-gun extremists and the National Rifle Association’s (NRA) must understand that there is a real for many people at the uncontrolled s...
Perspectives on the issue of gun control vary according to location and party differences and also personal thoughts...
In this article the author talks about the relationship between gun control laws and gun ownership rates in relation to crime rates. He informs his readers of the studies to determine whether gun ownership rates have any effect on criminal activity being that firearms are the leading cause of murders; and if by making gun control laws stricter will it lower the violent crime rates, and overall homicide rates.
Web 4 “Large Majority Continues to Favor Stricter Gun Controls” http://www.harrisinteractive.com/harris_poll/ April 25 2001, accessed April 2004