... helpless children and six women that day. In order to prevent future attacks from happening and to protect the lives of citizens, a federal assault weapons ban must be reinstated in the United States. People who are against an assault rifle ban sometimes claim that a ban would not reduce crime. ... try to inflict pain upon others. However, if only armed with kitchen knives, the chances of a massacre is highly limited. Reinstating a federal assault weapons ban will reduce the amount of gun homicides seen each year. The United States has been ranked the number one nation in the world with...

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... they are semi-automatic, meaning a bullet is released from the chamber every time the trigger is pulled. These weapons can also hold high capacity drum-round magazines, which means they can hold over one hundred rounds of ammunition (Beckett). These weapons are linked to deadly shootings and mass murders since they can hold so much ammunition and shoot it so quickly. The Sandy ... "). This is a major issue, and the only way to solve the problem is to have stricter gun laws on assault weapons. These weapons need stricter laws to stop mass murders and deadly shootings and increase America'...

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... handful of those firearms from felons' hands. There is no evidence that the disarmed criminals using them would not then turn to other weapons. Most criminals do not obtain firearms through conventional sources. Thus, as opponents of gun control correctly contend, gun control measures in the United ... March 1987. 3 Gary Kleck, Point Blank: Guns and Violence In America (Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter, 1991), p. 203. 6 Gary Kleck, "Lifesaving Benefits to Use of Weapons for Self-Defense," Houston Chronicle, May 31,1992, p. 1E. 7 David B. Kopel, The Samurai, the Mountie and the Cowboy (Bu...

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... ) One of the reasons there is such a large descripency between nations is because in Germany, France, Canada, Britian, and Japan, handguns and assualt weapons are virtually banned from the general public. One study done by Arthur Kellerman comparing the rates of handgun violence in Seattle, Washington, and Vancouver Canada, demostrates ... as shot guns and rifles would be unaffected by these bans, because of no significantly large threat as the smaller more dangerous handguns/assualt weapons. This group also supports any efforts to limit the availability of gun dealers licenses, increasi...

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... the entire Vietnam War. Guns kept in the home are 43 times more likely to kill a family member, friend or acquaintance than an intruder. Although Assault weapons make up less than 1 percent of privately owned firearms in the U.S., they have been traced to from 4 percent to 9 percent of firearms crimes over the ... out of their homes don't even have a license to operate. This is just one of many examples of the need for gun control. People sell deadly weapons to who ever has enough money to purchase them. These illegal dealers are one of the main sources for guns carried by kids, and the...

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... there revenge or aggression. They argue the fact that if they couldn't get guns that they would use some other sort of deadly weapon to do the same thing. A good point brought about is; should the government take away all deadly objects from United States citizens such as steak knives. This question has been a tough one to answer for many of those ... for many years now. Another argument for gun control has been set on the fact that some people have been able to attain a small arsenal of weapons. Weapons that cannot even be used for hunting but weapons that are strictly for fun and plea...

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... least 211 million guns, including 71 million handguns, in private hands in this country. Second, thanks to the frequent use of lethal weapons in the commission of crimes, retail sales of guns purchased for personal protection are on the rise. Third, reverence for the Constitution, ... weapons, and killed many people. Another tragedy, which took place this past October, was the sniper attacks. One man, who got the sniper rifle and ammunition from the black market, went out and allegedly shot down at least thirteen people. All events of this nature make it look very easy to go out, buy a ...

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... armed citizenry can restrain a foreign conqueror backed by a modern army. The safety of the nation does not need to branch into civilians needing to own weapons to protect themselves. The right to bear arms has presented our society many problems. It is the main cause of countless crimes and murders. For example, ... terrorist organizations, or branches of them, in the U.S. are able to purchase the latest in deadly technology. They are also able to transport them and use them against our own government; they are able to use our own laws against us. A ... during a series of shootings i...

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... % higher than the rate for the rest of the country. Maryland was another state to impose a waiting period for gun purchases. The state banned several small handguns and restricted "assault weapons", even regulated private transfers between family members and friends, and for the last decade Maryland's murder rate has averaged 44% higher than that of the rest of the country, the ... explained the international comparison myth, writing, "In any society, truly violent people are only a small minority. We know that criminals will neither obey gun bans nor refrain from turning other deadly in...

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... to experience a suicide than residents of homes without guns" (Kellermann Etal. 467-472.). As you can begin to see many criminal or deadly circumstances are enhanced by the presence of guns, but what about other weapons? More recent studies on weapons and violent crimes have generally concluded that death was at least twice as likely in gun assaults as in knife assaults. The ... ...

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... % of males and 22% of females reported that they had easy access to handguns and 11.4% were gun-owning males (O'Donnel 772). The access to guns might prove to be a deadly for both innocent bystanders and the holder of the gun. Children should not be able to own guns. One of the prerequisites for owning a gun should be that the person ... U.S. really understand how many lives that are being wasted every year because of the misuse of firearms? By 1998 legislation in 31 states, 9 since 1995 has passed laws issuing concealed weapons licenses to citizens ("America and Guns" 18). Some experts ...

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... would make the community safer as each citizen takes personal safety into their own hands. Yet, an incentive to ban firearms comes from the idea that disavowing all connection with a deadly weapon would in turn bring about a safer community where fatal crimes rarely occur. Gun control entails a topic that goes beyond the two words that the name represents. The controversial argument ... as many restrictions. In Switzerland, to bear arms in public requires an additional permit, but obtaining this permit, obligates the pursuer "to pass an examination on the correct handling of weapons as ...

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... the hijackers know that a good deal of the passengers will not go out willingly. When they look away, they turn around only to look down several barrels of small arms weapons with laser guided aim pointed right in between their eyes. A couple more seconds and they think they are in a scene in THE MATRIX, with a group of men, women, young, and ... the Constitution that Americans have the right to bear arms within a well regulated militia. Why make gun control such a controversial issue? In Virginia, you can make use of a car as a deadly weapon and run someone over, and get 12 months for ...

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