Opposing
Part III - Review of Opposing Opinions
Some Americans believe that gun control laws are necessary to keep America a more peaceful and safer place. Pro gun control supporters say that the fewer the guns the fewer the deaths and statistically that sounds accurate. The Harvard School of Public Health did a study of the correlation of guns and gun access to homicide rates. They found the result of if there is an easier access to guns the more likely they are to kill you or someone else than if they didn't have a very easy access to guns.
Another correlation to the amount of guns is the amount of suicides happening in America. There's a widespread perception that planning a suicide is like planning a wedding, but study after study shows that most suicides happen in the spur of the moment. Meaning the lack of access to guns could could save a suicidal person's life by having a more complex and strict way of obtaining a firearm. This argument might sound a little far fetched but according to the evidence it makes perfect sense. “according to this report in the Boston Globe, States with high levels of gun ownership have a suicide rate almost twice as high as those with low ownership levels” (Morris M).
Moving to yet another fact of why gun laws and restrictions are good is that from 1982 to 2012 there has been roughly sixty two mass shootings in America. According to research from Mother jones half of mass shooters used assault weapons or high capacity magazine weapons. “So putting controls on the assault rifle has to be a good thing, right?” (Morris M) Certain bans on weapons like class III weapons or assault weapons would save lives. The point of that statement is a person that is very driven to commit a shooting wants to do the most damage to a large amount of people. If weapons like assault or large magazine weapons are banned or very hard to obtain they will still use a gun or weapon but there statistically would be less deaths.
“According to data published in the the Guardian, gun ownership in the US is literally the highest in the world” (Moris). Not in the “developed world,” or the West in the whole world. That makes Americans more heavily armed than Russians, Pakistanis and people from Afghanistan. With all those weapons in America it may sound as if a mass shooter would have no chance against the people of America, but when Mother Jones calculated the numbers of mass shootings and successful civilian interventions, 1.6 of all mass shootings since 1980 had involved an successful civilian intervention. According to the numbers a civilian intervention would happen once every thirty years. This is why some people believe guns are used for more bad than good.
The main class of guns that some of the people want to be more controlled is class three or the assault weapons. These guns are exactly what the name states them as “assault weapons” used and made for the battlefield. “there’s no conceivable reason to own an AR-15, a pump action shotgun, armor-piercing bullets or a high-capacity magazine” (Morris). A small quantity of Americans completely want the obliteration of guns, but most are concerned about the safety concerns brought from how potentially dangerous these powerful weapons can be.
Some Americans believe that gun control laws are necessary to keep America a more peaceful and safer place. Pro gun control supporters say that the fewer the guns the fewer the deaths and statistically that sounds accurate. The Harvard School of Public Health did a study of the correlation of guns and gun access to homicide rates. They found the result of if there is an easier access to guns the more likely they are to kill you or someone else than if they didn't have a very easy access to guns.
Another correlation to the amount of guns is the amount of suicides happening in America. There's a widespread perception that planning a suicide is like planning a wedding, but study after study shows that most suicides happen in the spur of the moment. Meaning the lack of access to guns could could save a suicidal person's life by having a more complex and strict way of obtaining a firearm. This argument might sound a little far fetched but according to the evidence it makes perfect sense. “according to this report in the Boston Globe, States with high levels of gun ownership have a suicide rate almost twice as high as those with low ownership levels” (Morris M).
Moving to yet another fact of why gun laws and restrictions are good is that from 1982 to 2012 there has been roughly sixty two mass shootings in America. According to research from Mother jones half of mass shooters used assault weapons or high capacity magazine weapons. “So putting controls on the assault rifle has to be a good thing, right?” (Morris M) Certain bans on weapons like class III weapons or assault weapons would save lives. The point of that statement is a person that is very driven to commit a shooting wants to do the most damage to a large amount of people. If weapons like assault or large magazine weapons are banned or very hard to obtain they will still use a gun or weapon but there statistically would be less deaths.
“According to data published in the the Guardian, gun ownership in the US is literally the highest in the world” (Moris). Not in the “developed world,” or the West in the whole world. That makes Americans more heavily armed than Russians, Pakistanis and people from Afghanistan. With all those weapons in America it may sound as if a mass shooter would have no chance against the people of America, but when Mother Jones calculated the numbers of mass shootings and successful civilian interventions, 1.6 of all mass shootings since 1980 had involved an successful civilian intervention. According to the numbers a civilian intervention would happen once every thirty years. This is why some people believe guns are used for more bad than good.
The main class of guns that some of the people want to be more controlled is class three or the assault weapons. These guns are exactly what the name states them as “assault weapons” used and made for the battlefield. “there’s no conceivable reason to own an AR-15, a pump action shotgun, armor-piercing bullets or a high-capacity magazine” (Morris). A small quantity of Americans completely want the obliteration of guns, but most are concerned about the safety concerns brought from how potentially dangerous these powerful weapons can be.
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