Gun Control and Crime Prevention
Various Internet sources on the topic, as well as newspaper articles and public debate in general, have proved that the issue of gun control is a controversial one which is far from being resolved. For some critics, gun control is an essential measure to reduce or even prevent criminal activity. According to arguments raised by this camp, gun control laws will prevent criminals from obtaining weapons easily and will therefore reduce the crime rate. On the other side of the debate, there are those who argue that gun control will have little effect beyond robbing law-abiding citizens of their right to defend themselves effectively in a world that has become increasingly rife with crime. Furthermore, arguments raised by this group state that criminals are unlikely to follow legal means of obtaining weapons, regardless of the presence or absence of gun control laws. For these reasons, some questions that I would like research to answer include whether there is any reason to believe that gun control will reduce crime, if these laws will simply result in an infringement on human rights, and whether either case has been proven conclusively by empirical research. Perhaps a review of the article "Would Banning Firearms Reduce Murder and Suicide?" By Kates and Mauser (n.d.) would shed some light on some of these questions.
In their introduction, the authors already address the third question I had, which was whether the research has proved conclusively whether or not gun control affects the national crime rate. The authors draw on international data to imply that comparisons among countries have been falsified...
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