Gun control
Part 1A: The proposal,
The agent is California legislature acting for California supports the gun control. Where as the republicans disagree.
The goal is that there will be specific situations to own a gun control in the U.S.
3A- Restrict the sale of guns, for example, by imposing waiting periods.
3B- Democratic Party introduced assembly bills 1663, 1664, 1673 and 1674, which restrict the sale of the guns.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton supports this proposal with other many politically powerful people.
The agent is California legislature acting for California support the gun control. Where as the republicans disagree.
The goal is that there will be specific situations to own a gun control in the U.S.
Keep access to guns relatively unrestricted, and focus on education for gun users and law enforcement for criminals.
Republicans and conservatives against strict gun control.
Opponents “Fears about the proposal
A-Gun control will put people’s lives at risk
B- Gun control will not decrease the number of the killer’s in the U.S.
C- Gun control will not protect people’s life.
D- If there is not gun control, the presence of guns will give opportunity to too many people to kill others
E- Gun control laws will infringe upon the right to bear arms.
F- Gun control laws infringe upon self-defense and deny people a sense of safety.
G- Failure to implement gun control is the reason there are mass murders and gun related deaths
H- Gun crime occurs because there is no gun control
I- Gun control has not made a positive difference in other nations
J- Gun control will prevent suicide, and homicide.
K- Enforcing Gun control is expensive and will raise taxes
L- Enforcing gun control will be distract police forces and make people less safe from real crime.
M- Increasing gun control will create a larger black market and lead to illegal sales
N- Those interested in circumventing the law will find loopholes in the law in order to get and keep guns.
Opponents “Hopes about the alternative
A-The gun control is not the main reason for too many illegal activities.
B- The law today gives you the opportunity of self-defense by having a legal gun.
C- Criminals will still have the guns because the laws don’t imply on criminals.
D- Gun control laws are needed to protect women from domestic abusers and stalkers.
E- Gun control leads to fewer suicides.
F- Gun control laws would reduce gun deaths.
G- Gun control could save so many people’s lives.
Supporters “Hopes about the alternative
Gun controls are helpful & recommended for the safety of others.
Illegalizing the gun control protects people’s lives.
Gun control is needed for people’s protection from criminals.
Gun control is needed for people’s lives protection in public and private places.
Gun control laws would not infringe upon the right to not bear arms.
Gun control laws would not infringe the right to self-defense and not to deny people a sense of safety.
Gun control is necessary because guns do not kill relatively few people.
Supporters “Fears about the alternative,
A- Gun control lead to too many deaths activities.
B- Criminals might have the ability to get more gun controls because the law does not restrict them.
C- Gun control will protect women from domestic abusers and stalkers.
D- Gun control could not save so many people life.
E- Gun control laws would not reduce gun deaths.
F- Gun control will not lead to fewer suicides.
G- Gun control lead to bigger criminal activates
Sources of Evidence for Supporters’ Hopes
A- Leonard, Kimberly. "Study: Some Gun Control Laws Result in More Deaths." US News. March 10, 2016. Accessed May 16, 2016. http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-03-10/study-some-gun-control-laws-result-in-more-deaths
B-Times Editorial Board. "California's Proposed Gun Laws Won't Change Our Culture of Violence, but They Will Make Us Safer." Los Angeles Times. April 22, 2016. Accessed May 16, 2016. http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-adv-california-guns-20160422-story.html.
C- Krieg, Gregory. "Gun Control in America: How We Got Here. CNN, January 7, 2016. Accessed May 16, 2016. http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/07/politics/gun-control-america-history-timeline/.
D- "The Need to Replace 'Ideology, Intuition and Common Sense' with a Science-Based Public Health Approach to Gun Violence: A Conversation." - Public Health Institute. November 17, 2015. Accessed May 16, 2016. http://www.phi.org/news-events/850/the-need-to-replace-ideology-intuition-and-common-sense-with-a-science-based-public-health-approach-to-gun-violence-a-conversation?gclid=CJG06_aS38wCFYRrfgodMukPOQ.
E- Liptak, Adam. "Gun Laws and Crime: A Complex Relationship." The New York Times. June 28, 2008. Accessed May 16, 2016. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/weekinreview/29liptak.html?_r=0.
F- ecrease Violence." Boston Magazine. August 30, 2013. Accessed May 16, 2016. http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2013/08/30/harvard-gun-study-no-decrease-in-violence-with-ban/.
G- Milligan, Susan. "We Need Gun Control to Stop More Than Criminals." US News. January 16, 2014. Accessed May 16, 2016. http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/susan-milligan/2014/01/16/we-need-gun-control-to-stop-more-than-criminals.
Sources of Evidence for Supporters’ Fears
A- Frum, David. "Fear Drives Opposition to Gun Control." CNN. July 30, 2012. Accessed May 16, 2016. http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/23/opinion/frum-guns/.
B- Davidson, Jacob. "A Criminologist's Case Against Gun Control." Time
December 1, 2015. Accessed May 31, 2016. http://time.com/4100408/a-criminologists-case-against-gun-control/.
C-Rosenfeld, Steven. "7 Screwed up and Totally Wrong Ways People Think About Guns." Alternet. December 16, 2015. Accessed May 16, 2016. http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/7-screwed-and-totally-wrong-ways-people-think-about-guns.
D-Davidson, Jacob. "A Criminologist's Case Against Gun Control." Time. December 1, 2015. Accessed May 16, 2016. http://time.com/4100408/a-criminologists-case-against-gun-control/.
E- Kopel, B David . "Trust the People: The Case against Gun Control." Cato Institute. July 11, 1988. Accessed May 16, 2016. http://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/trust-people-case-against-gun-control.
F-Farago, Robert. "Gun Control Is Not the Answer: Opposing View." USA Today. December 04, 2015. Accessed May 16, 2016. http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/12/02/san-bernardino-gun-control-thetruthaboutgunscom-editorials-debates/76700270/.
G-Jones, Greg. "The Real Reason Americans Oppose Gun Control." The Federalist. January 06, 2016. Accessed May 16, 2016. http://thefederalist.com/2016/01/06/the-real-reason-americans-oppose-gun-control/.
1. Evidence for Supporters’ Hopes
A- Study by Kimberly in the British medical journal, found that illegalizing the gun controls will lead to more death activities. Another study found that 25 state who illegalized gun controls that “ nine were associated with a decrease, and the remaining showed no association” (Leonard Kimberly, 2016). Those two studies tell us the idea of illegalizing the gun control is not effective and the number of people who use it is increasing because it’s illegal.
B- in the article by Jacob David he mentioned that there is a very small number of people who support the gun control, but the biggest number do not agree with gun control. Also, he stated that a study had shown that the crime percentage had decrease besides the firearms had increased so high. Jacob Davidson mentioned that around “30,000 people have been killed with guns but only 20,000 of them took their own lives” (Davidson Jacob, Dec 1, 2015). That tells us
That gun controls are not only dangerous on others people live also it’s dangerous on the owner’s lives because many of them they end up killing them selves.
C- In the article the president Barack Obama was talking about a mass shooting at UCC in Oregon. This example shows how gun controls are leading to people’s deaths because the country is illegalizing them.
D- In the article, the author mentioned that about 320 people are shoot and killed in the U.S. Owning a gun at home for the safety of the family will lead to more killing activities and risk murders. Also, the author mentioned that we are missing so many parts; we need to understand those missing parts to put the right laws to safety of others.
E- In the article by Liptak, Adam, he mentioned that criminals are the ones are less likely to buy a gun control for criminal activitites. Also, Justice Breyer mentioned that strict laws for owning a gun control will lead to more deaths not less
F- A study in Harvard journal of public and law and policy had found that more guns will lead to more deaths activities and fewer guns will lead to fewer deaths activities. Also, Kates and Mauser mentioned that most high percentage of crimes and deaths, happens in countries with stringent gun controls. That tells us that gun control are not the main reason for people’s death.
G- In the article “We need gun control to stop more than criminals” by Susan Milligan, mentioned that people need guns to protect themselves from others for example: the little Mexican boy who have an easy access to use gun because his family is a family guns, had killed three of his classmates. That why people needs to have gun to protect them selves from other people who have easy access to guns and might lead our lives in danger.
2. Evidence for Supporters’ Fears
A- In the article by David Furm, mentioned that legalizing owning a gun and take it with you everywhere you go is something should not happen, there is a small chance that something wrong will happen like rapping etc. but what about others people lives. Americans supports gun rights but there will be a very strict new law regards owning a gun after the Aurora shooting.
B- David Welna the author of this article, cited that many Americans wants to own a guns and they think that the gun is not the main reason for the death crimes also, people are saying they need it for protecting them self (self-defense) from the criminals. The government will put laws to give the citizens the right to have a gun but at the same time there will be an identifying system where he can tell if this person have a gun or no. On the other hand the government will not allow the citizens to take guns to public places like: bars etc..
C- In the article alternet “Feeling safer is not being safer.“ the author said that two-thirds of gun owners says that they feel safer because they own a gun to protect their lives, when in real the studies shows that those people who owns a gun their life is more in danger than those who don’t own a gun. Also, those families who owns a gun because of the fear of what media is showing them they turn to use the guns on the wrong people like; the people who lives in their home instead of criminals.
D- Davidson Jacob cited in his article after the shooting that had happened in Colorado, the president Barack Obama wanted to stop the violence of gun deaths. According to the study that about 351 mass shooting in the U.S in 2015 also, 25% of people said that they support strict gun laws and the other side of people who support gun control are way much smaller than those who agrees to the strict rules. New strict rules for gun control might help to decrease the number of deaths.
E- In the article “trust the people” by Kopel, B David he mentioned that owning a gun is a serious danger on people’s life and not all people needs to own a gun. Kopel said that only a small majority of women and black people need to own a gun for self-defense otherwise no one needs to own it because it will lead to more crimes that people make.
F- In the article “Gun control is not the answer” by Robert Farago, He mentioned that when the president Barack Obama said they people need gun controls to safe their life, that this is such a bad idea for the U.S citizens because owning a gun will not stop the criminal from doing his crime and people who owns those guns will lead to more problems than before. On the other hand instead of banding the guns where are giving people the opportunity to do more criminal activities instead of solving it. Having the right to own a gun to everyone is a way to complicate the crimes more.
G- In the article “The real reasons Americans oppose gun control” by Greg Jones, he stated that people don’t need guns even though there are crimes had happened and there are some situations needs a protection. As he stated that “crazy people get guns not us” (Greg jones, 2016). He means that we all have fears of something wrong might happen to us but we should not choose the wrong decision to protect ourselves because in return it will be the opposite of what we expected, we will hurt ourselves and put our lives in danger.
