GUN CONTROL & PUSH FOR GUN CONTROL
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The research paper is on gun control and the push for gun control. To respond to the topic the paper first lays down in the first paragraph basic concepts of the gun control ideals and the pro-gun movement. The introduction explores the basic tenets and motivations of the pro-gun and gun control activists in America. The paper uses the motivation and opposition of both sides to create a paper on the gun control. The goal of the research is identified in the first paragraph, as the analysis of the gun control issue analyzing both side points-of-views. The goal is to create an understanding of the long-standing complexity involving the issue, and the lack of consensus over the decades. The paper is then structured into different paragraphs dealing with the history of gun control especially the legal history with the American Bar Association and the…...

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Works Cited

"Rep. John D. Dingell Delivers Remarks at National Rifle Association Conference." Political Transcript WireSep 21, 2007. ProQuest. Web. 23 Apr. 2013.

Audi, Tamara, and Andy Pasztor. "U.S. News: Giffords Ready to make A Push on Gun Control." Wall Street Journal: A.3. Jan 08, 2013. ProQuest. Web. 23 Apr. 2013.

Bruce, John M., and Wilcox Clyde. The Changing Politics of Gun Control. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1998. Print.

Carter, Lee G. Guns in American Society: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, Culture, and the Law. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, Inc., 2002. Print.

Gun Control: estricting ights or Protecting People
The article carried on the New York Times dated 28 February 2013 christened 'Guns and Gun Control' highlights a number of issues that relates to the whole issue of guns. The debate surrounding the issue of gun possession and a prohibition of the same is a thorny issue and as such, it has been an elicited debate at different levels of government in the United States. For the purpose of this paper, the discourse will take a multi-angle analysis of the contents captured in the aforementioned article.

The assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. And President Kennedy ushered in a new constitutional dispensation, which was characterized by the legislation of strict federal laws aimed at controlling the proliferation and possession of guns among the citizens. This law on gun control remained in force for about three and a half decades a democratic-controlled Congress revisited…...

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Reference

Anonymous. (2013). Guns and Guns Control, New York Times, 28 February 2013.

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…...

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Reference

Kates, D.B. And Mauser, G. (n.d.). Would Banning Firearms Reduce Murder and Suicide? Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Vol. 30 No. 2. Retrieved from: http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/jlpp/Vol30_No2_KatesMauseronline.pdf

Gun Control vs. Crime Rate
Gun ownership in Virginia and the effects it has on crime rates

There is much controversy regarding gun laws and the effects that they have on crime levels, as many are inclined to believe that they reduce the number of gun-related offences while others believe that they actually amplify the chances of a person being shot. American culture has come to be a gun culture, considering that guns are present in a series of environments related to American traditionalism. The mass media constantly bombards the masses with gun stories and vivid images displaying guns as being an active part of society. The Constitution of Virginia is focused on protecting people's rights to bear arms and it prevents the government from taking away this right.

U.S. background

The Second Amendment legalized gun ownership and it practically made it possible for people to be in possession of particular types of guns…...

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Works cited:

Blank, Jeremy D., "Guns Vs. Crime," Retrieved November 22, 2012, from the American Partisan Website:  http://www.american-partisan.com/cols/blanks/081400.htm 

Lee Carter, Greg, "Guns in American Society," (ABC-CLIO, 04.05.2012)

Lott, John R., "More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun-Control Laws," (University of Chicago Press, 15.06.2000)

Wilson, Harry L., "Guns, Gun Control, And Elections: The Politics And Policy of Firearms," (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007 )

4% of that group favored current policies. However, support for the current policies grew in the senior group, with 41.2% of people over age 65 supporting the current gun control policies.
Gender

Gender was one area where stereotypes proved to be very reliable at predicting a person's attitude towards gun control. The hypothesis was that females would be much greater advocates of gun control than men, and the results reflected that they were. Males were more than three times as likely to believe it should be easier to acquire a gun than females were; 5.7% of males held that belief compared to 1.8% of women. Males were also more likely to be content with the current gun control policy, as almost half of all males, 49%, believed that the current policy should remain unchanged. In contrast, only 33% of females believed that the current policy should remain unchanged. 65.2% of females believed…...

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Works Cited

Hamilton, Alexander. "Federalist 28." The Federalist Papers. 1787-88. FoundingFathers. 10

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Hamilton, Alexander. "Federalist 29." The Federalist Papers. 1787-88. FoundingFathers. 10

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As a consequence, it is difficult to conclude that strict liabilities for gun owners (a la LaFollette) represent and appropriate and reasoned response. "Gun ownership fails to clearly possess any of the three characteristics of ultra-hazardous activities." It fails to be an activity that is not commonly done, that necessarily involves a risk of serious harm, and that cannot be made safe even with extreme care (Hunt, 2001: p. 41-42).
Further, the U.S. National Safety Council has almost 100 years of data on fatal firearms accidents. Despite popular conception that fatal accidents have been increasing and particularly threaten children's lives, the data shows that fatal accidents have been declining since the 1930s, and at an accelerating rate in the last decade -- declining 40% in those ten years (Stell, 2001: p. 30). Undermining the claim that increased gun ownership results in higher crime rates, Moorhouse and Wanner (2006) analyzed:

30 different…...

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References

Amar, a.R. (2002, Spring). Second thoughts. Law and Contemporary Problems, 65(2), pp. 103-111.

Hunt, L.H. (2001, Winter/Spring). Epilogue: is there an issue here? Criminal Justice Ethics, pp. 40-44.

Kwon, I. And Baack, D.W. (2005, April). The effectiveness of legislation controlling gun usage. The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 64(2), pp. 533-547.

LaFollette, H. (2001b, Winter/Spring). Controlling guns. Criminal Justice Ethics, pp. 34-39.

Gun Control in United States
Gun control

Gun control is a particularly controversial topic in the contemporary society, as especially in the U.S. people have been accustomed to living in a culture focused on guns. Factors like the Second Amendment in the Bill of Rights influenced people to identify with an environment that is widely supportive with regard to the masses having access to guns. The U.S.' history made it possible for the country's citizens to acknowledge the importance of having guns -- by being able to protect themselves, people can make sure the authorities do not abuse them and that they can take up arms against oppressors whenever this is needed.

Gun ownership as a tool promoting individualism

Considering conditions in the U.S., it would be safe to say that people consider guns to be a part of their culture, a part of being an American. In order to be able to gain…...

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Works cited:

Chemerinsky, E. "Putting the Gun Control Debate in Social Perspective." Fordham Law Review Vol. 73, Issue 2 Article 2.

Cheng, X. (2002). "Analysis of states gun control restrictions." Graduate Theses and Dissertations.  http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/1517 

Dowd, D.W. "The Relevance of the Second Amendment to Gun Control Legislation," 58 Mont. L. Rev. 79 (1997)

Heller, S. "The Right to Bear Arms: Some prominent legal scholars are taking a new look at the Second Amendment." The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 21, 1995.

Results in Other Countries

Canada overhauled its laws after gunman Marc Lepine killed 14 women and himself at Montreal's Ecole Polytechnique college in 1989. It's now illegal to possess an unregistered handgun or any kind of rapid-fire weapon. Canada also requires training, a personal risk assessment, two references, spousal notification and criminal record checks. Government figures suggest the measures have been at least a partial success: Canada's gun homicides have plunged more than 50% since 1991, when the changes took effect, dropping from 240 that year to 138 in 2003 (Kole, 2007).

After a loner armed with assault weapons turned a scenic resort into a mass of mangled bodies and injured in 1996, Australia took quick and decisive action. Twelve days later, the government pushed through a tough ban on semiautomatic rifles.

Australia, which had been bloodied by 13 mass shootings in the 15 years that preceded the slaughter in Port Arthur, Tasmania,…...

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Bibliography

Gun control. (n.d.). Retrieved May 7, 2009, from Justfacts.com:  http://www.justfacts.com/guncontrol.asp 

Kole, W. (2007, April 27). Gun control in foreign countries has mixed results. Retrieved May 7, 2009, from findarticles.com (Oakland Tribune):  http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4176/is_20070427/ai_n19063641/ 

Massie, M. (2009, May 7). Anti-gun laws favor criminals. Retrieved May 7, 2009, from Worldnet Daily:  http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=94824

Gun control has been a controversial subject for the public and the government. Obama administration has come under attack for its silence on the issue. In September 2008, the president promised people that he wouldn't take away their guns, and since then, he has not done anything to introduce stricter laws thus attracting serious criticism from many quarters including the Brady campaign in 2010. (Altman, 2011) With gun-related incidents on the rise, many wonder why gun control is not a priority for our government. In this country, we definitely needed stricter gun control laws to be able to better address the alarming rise in gun-related incidents.
Gun laws in the country have become tougher over the years but still they are not as strict as some may desire. The result is series of horrific incidents in which tens of young men and women lost their lives. School shootings such as the…...

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References

Jeffrey M. Jenson, "Aggression and Violence in the United States: Reflections on the Virginia Tech Shootings," Social Work Research 31.3 (2007)

Altman, Alex. 2011. "Why Obama's silence on gun control pleases no one" Time magazine. Feb 07.

Gwen Fill, Brady Gun-Control Bill Imperiled by Rules Dispute.  http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE1DE133DF931A35756C0A967958260 

Alex Altman, Future of Gun Control, 2008, Accessed 04/28/11 from  http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1818325,00.html

Gun control is largely an ineffective and potentially discriminatory practice that infringes upon Constitutional rights. Supporters of gun control often argue that firearm ownership is linked to accidental deaths and violent crime, and that the majority of Americans support some sort of gun control. In contrast, those who oppose gun control argue that controls infringe the constitutional rights of law-abiding Americans, and potentially place the nation's liberty at risk. They also argue that the number of guns in a society is not linked to the amount of crime, and that gun ownership is a deterrent to crime. Further, gun control discriminates against blacks and women.
Gun control is an issue that impacts many people in the United States. Close to 40% of American homes have a gun. Even more Americans consider gun control to be an important issue (Speakout.com).

Those who advocate gun control argue that the ownership of firearms is linked…...

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Works Cited

Lee, Robert W. Firearms and Freedom. The New American, Vol. 16, No. 25, December 4,

2000. 20 March 2005.  http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/2000/12-04 -

2000/vo16no25_firearms.htm

Kopel, David B. Trust the People: The Case Against Gun Control. The Cato Institute,

Gun Control: estricting ights or Protecting People
The leading nation in the number of deaths resulting from gun related violence is United States. It is also noteworthy that about half of all the American homes possess a gun. The United States have consequently, taken the initiative to control the possession and distribution of guns. However, this is not without challenges and criticisms. Some of the people support gun ownership control, whereas others do not support.

The possession of a gun is granted in the law by the Second Amendment among other rights of the people. The topic, therefore, elicits controversial opinions as to whether gun control measures are for protecting the people or denying the people their rights. The liberal law scholars and citizens who support the collective rights hold that; the Second Amendment seeks to allow the state to control arms (Magoon, 2008). On the contrary, the conservatives are in favor…...

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References

Magoon, K. (2008). Gun control. Edina, Minn: ABDO Pub.

Spitzer, R.J. (2009). Gun control: A documentary and reference guide. Westport, Conn:

Greenwood Press.

Alters, S. (2007). Gun control: Restricting rights or protecting people?. Detroit, Mich: Thomson

Gun Ownership and Gun Control
In American culture today, guns are worshiped. Children play with toy guns, television and film glorify gun violence, teenagers show off guns to one another in order to get respect, and powerful lobbyist groups keep these weapons legal and accessible. There's something wrong with this picture. There's something wrong with a culture that believes guns are more important than feeding the hungry or sheltering the homeless. There's something wrong with a culture that worships a weapon.

Statistics show that gun ownership has done nothing more than hurt Americans. Goods for Guns, a non-profit organization, published the following facts about guns in America in their report, "National Gun Violence Statistics":

In 1999, approximately 10, 096 people were murdered by guns in the United States.

In 1998, over 30,000 people died from gunshots in the U.S.

A gun kept in the home is 22 times more likely to kill a family member…...

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Bibliography

National Gun Violence Statistics." Goods for Guns. http://goodsforguns.org/nationalfacts/

Statistics: Gun Violence in Our Communities." School and Community Safety. 2002.  http://www.neahin.org/programs/schoolsafety/gunsafety/statistics.htm 

Youth Violence Statistics." Character Counts.  http://www.charactercounts.org/rskstats.htm 

Gun Violence in America." Violence Policy Center - National Rifle Association.  http://www.vpc.org/nrainfo/phil.html

Gun Control
The debate on whether or not strict gun control laws should be enacted has been raging for years. While proponents of the said laws have in the past linked gun ownership to escalating crime, advocates of gun control are convinced that guns are an effective deterrent against acts of criminality. o, does gun control really result in decreased rates of crime? My take is that as the drafters of the econd Amendment intended, citizens should be permitted to bear guns for their own safety, and by extension, that of the entire American society. In this text, I develop an annotated bibliography based on a variety of resources on gun control.

Barrett, Paul. "After Connecticut: Guns, Gun Control, and Gun Culture." Bloomberg Business Week, 2012. Web. 28 November 2013 < http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-12-14/after-connecticut-guns-gun-control-and-gun-culture>

The article starts with the unfortunate massacre of 26 people in Bucolic Newtown, Conn. approximately one year ago. According to Barrett,…...

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Siegel, Larry J. Criminology: The Core. 3rd ed. Belmont, CA: Cengage Learning, 2007. Print.

In seeking to discuss the association between guns and crime, Siegel attempts to reconstruct a debate that has been going on for quite a while. In the past, various studies have been conducted in an attempt to determine the effect issuance of guns to private citizens has on crime. It should be noted that on this front, the results of the said studies have largely been conflicting. Siegel gives his readers a sneak preview of both sides of the argument.

This text will come in handy as I seek to not only determine the position of the Federal Government with regard to gun ownership, but also the various arguments that have been presented in support of either gun ownership or gun control. Having attended State University of New York's (at Albany) School of Criminal Justice, Siegel can be regarded knowledgeable on matters relating to criminal justice. Over time, he has taught at various academic institutions including but not limited to University of Massachusetts -- where he is currently a professor. His contributions on the subject of gun ownership rights and laws can therefore be regarded reliable.

Gun Control Problems in America
The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution states: "A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." The Founding Fathers included this in our Bill of Rights because they feared the Federal Government might coerce the population if the people did not have the means to defend themselves as a nation and as individuals. Many years later, we began placing restrictions on the right to keep and bear arms. The first restrictions concerned the manner in which citizens could carry arms. In 1850, the Louisiana Supreme Court ruled that the foundation did not grant the right to carry a concealed weapon although earlier court cases had ruled that the constitution did protect the right to carry concealed weapons. Shortly before the Civil ar, some southern States passed legislation…...

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Works Cited

News Brief. The Daily Texan. 101, No. 158, 14 June, 2001.  http://www.tsp.utexas.edu/webarchive/06-14-01/PF2001061403_s01_Brief.html 

Briggs, B. Bruce. The Great American Gun War. PUBLIC INTEREST. 45 (1976).

Wright, James, Rossi, Peter and Daly, Kathleen. UNDER the GUN: WEAPONS, CRIME, and VIOLENCE in AMERICA Aldine Publishing Company (1983).

Scherer, Ron and Lafranchi, Howard. "New Gun Trade: Turning Them in" in: THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, 4 May 2000.

Heller. This was a challenge to a Washington D.C. law that made it illegal to: carry any kind of handguns inside the city. The court ruled that the law was a violation of the Second Amendment. As they felt that the right to: a militia and bear arms was linked directly to every able body person. Therefore, carrying a weapon on your person is supporting these objectives of: exercising your Constitutional rights. The information from this source is useful, because it highlighting how passing various gun control laws could be challenging after this case. (Scaros, 2011, pg. 359)
The piece of literature that was written by Hess (2006), discusses the history of Supreme Court cases surrounding various gun control laws. As they talk about the case United States vs. Cruikshank and how it is relevant to the Second Amendment. Under this decision, the court found that an individual must prove…...

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Bibliography

Blumstein, a. (2000). The Rise and Decline of Homicide. Annual Review of Public Health, 55, 505 -- 541.

Carter, G. (2002). Guns in America. Santa Barbra, CA: AFL.

Hess, K. (2006). Introduction to Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice. Belmont, CA; Thompson.

Kwon, I. (1997). The Effectiveness of Gun Control Laws. American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 56 (1), 41 -- 50.

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