Analysis Of The Single Best Anti-Gun Death Policy Ending The Drug War

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Americans tend to believe that universal gun confiscation in unpractical and might not decrease the number of gun related murders; on the other hand, some people believe that ending the drug war would decrease the number of gun deaths tremendously. In the article “The Single Best Anti-Gun Death Policy Ending the Drug War” from The Atlantic written by Noah Smith suggests that in order to decrease the number of gun related deaths, the drug war should come to an halt. Smith begins his article with a few concessions and giving reasons as to why ending the drug war to get a handle on gun control is a good idea. Throughout the whole article his tone of voice was very pointed, aggravated, frustrated, and urgent due to the fact of the matter. Too many …show more content…

I am on two minds about Noah’s Smith’s claim that ending the drug war will decrease the number of gun related death. On the one hand, I agree that ending the war would reduce a plethora of problems. On the other hand, I am not sure that I can support his argument that drugs are the main thing that can lead to a gun related death. There are numerous things that can be the reasoning behind a gun related death, such as mental illness, suicide, etc. In addition, legalizing marijuana will only lead to legalization of more drugs. The author, Noah Smith, overlooks what I consider an important point about how many “gun deaths” are accidental or a suicide. As time has progressed on the amount of “gun deaths” have risen to 32,000 per year. This would leave the annual number of gun suicides at 22,500. The amount of suicides per year makes up well over half of the amount of gun deaths per year. Everything involving suicides are getting worse and something has to be done about it. Smith acknowledges that gun control have some gun control; however, most of the recent hysteria over gun deaths is misplaced according to …show more content…

He proposes two solutions to the problem universal gun confiscation and putting an end to the drug war. He knows that Universal gun confiscation is not about the logical choice, because there would be a civil war, people would hide their guns, and we would be put in a police state. So the only real logical solution that Noah Smith, the author, is left with is to put an end to the drug war. But what I am proposing is to do something about where the people buy their guns from. The location of buying a gun should have stricter background checks, checking of medical records, signing an agreement, and whatever else is necessary. Having these things in place would keep us from losing all of these good people to deaths especially gun related

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