Why Gun Control and Ban on Certain Guns Will not Work in the United States

In this paper I will state the reasons why gun control and ban on certain guns will not work in the United States, especially in rural areas across the country. 46% of americans in rural areas own a gun compared to 19% of urban residents. 75% of rural gun owners own more than one gun to 48% of urban gun owners. 47% of rural gun owners owned a gun before age 18 only 27% of urban gun owners owned them before age 18. 21% of owners of guns in rural areas say there would be more crime if more Americans owned guns, only 9% of rural gun owners agree.

Many states with the most relaxed gun laws also have some of the lowest crime rates in the the country. If the people want the guns they will get them, Chicago has some of the lowest legal gun ownership in the U.S. but it has one of the highest rates of gun violence. Australia and Britain have not had any fewer mass shootings or gun related crimes and events since enacting on their very strict gun-control laws. There are over 250 million legal firearms in the United States. Banning or making strict changes would not be beneficial because there is no way they would be able to collect all of those firearms. And even if they were able to it is estimated over 253,000 firearms cross the U.S. Mexico border yearly. This shows that without major border security improvements the problem will not be solved. It is ironic that many of the the people who support gun control or banning of guns do not support of a more secure border. Of the 33,000 gun deaths that occur each year, two thirds are suicides, and the majority of the remaining 11,000 deaths are gang-related and involve guns that were purchased illegally.

Religious groups also differ greatly 95% of Muslims, 82% of Jewish people and Protestant Christians at 66% believe in stricter gun control. Democrats are more likely to be in support of gun laws.

There has been a very small change in the frequency of mass public shootings over the past years, the rates are still similar to what the United States experienced in the 1980s and early 1990s. 90% of public shootings happen in gun free zones. A ban on Assault Weapons? would be pointless less than 2% of shootings occur with a rifle let alone an assault weapon?. The average age of a person involved in a public shooting is 34 years old so raising the age to buy a firearm to say 21 wouldn’t do much good. Very few mass shootings occur with High Capacity Magazines?. The delay of switching magazines will only take about 5 seconds. An example of this is the Virginia Tech shooter who killed 32 people with 2 handguns and 10 round magazines.

60% of mass shooters have been marked as mentally disturbed. The European Union who as a group have much stricter gun laws have had more deaths per capita from mass shooting than the United States. People will still find ways to kill or hurt people if they don’t have guns as well many people have used bombs, set fire to buildings, etc.

The most common gun control measures are already quite ineffective at stopping things like mass shootings. Although some gun-control advocates claim there have been more than 300 mass shootings this year, but Since the beginning of the year, there have only been 11 mass public shootings where three or more people were killed, these are the qualifications from Congress’s definitions of mass shooting and mass killing. These 11 mass public shootings occurred across 7 different states, but three occurred in California, the only state with a high gun control rating from Giffords Law Center. Two more shootings occurred in Pennsylvania, whose middle level rating accounts for the 13th strictest gun-control framework in the country. Texas, meanwhile, has one of the lowest gun control rating in the country, yet has seen only 6.6 percent of the mass public shootings since 2000 below its expected amount of shootings, given that it holds 8.6 percent of the national population. On the other hand, Washington state with one of the better ratings accounts for 2.2 percent of the population but 8 percent of mass public shootings since 2000.

More importantly, the total availability of guns isn’t really to be the problem. Since 1990, the number of guns and firearms per person in the United States has increased by just under 50 percent. At the same time, however, the homicide rate and national gun-homicide rate have plummeted by over 50 percent, and the number of non-fatal firearm crimes committed in 2011 was one-sixth the number committed in 1993.

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