Gun Control: Arguments - Gun Control

The rapid expansion of gun rights and the recent loosening of restrictions on self-defensive violence are argued to be responses to a perceived threat to these identity-constituting relations, rather than to the threat of violent crime, which has long been on the decline.

There is simply no viable short-term political answer to stop mass shootings, only long, difficult and unclear paths toward that goal. The events in Uvalde and in Dayton and in Parkland and in Buffalo should remind us, though, that the "good guys with a gun" line is both infeasible and itself flawed.

While some believe a civilian packing heat can stop a bad guy with a gun, many, including some elected officials and law enforcement leaders, are skeptical.

Advocates argue that gun control laws reduce the incidence of violent crimes by reducing the prevalence of firearms. On this view, fewer guns mean less crime. Thus, there is a two-step linkage between gun control and crime rates: 1. the impact of gun control on the availability and accessibility of firearms, particularly handguns, and 2. the effect of the prevalence of guns on the commission of crimes.

The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in 2008 that the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects an individual's right to bear arms added fuel to the ongoing national debate about gun control.

The gunman in Virginia Beach had large capacity magazines with him during Friday's shooting. Gun control groups would like to restrict those accessories, saying they're too useful for mass shooters.

The article offers information on the reintroduction of the Keep America Safe Act by the Senator, Bob Menendez and Representative Ted Deutch. Topics discussed include information on the reducing the gun violence by bannig the sale of gun magazines under the act; discussions on the preventing the firearms and crime with the help of act in the U.S.; and the information on the legislations on right to self-defense.

This study investigates current levels of criminal activity with assault weapons and other high-capacity semiautomatics in the USA using several local and national data sources.

This article highlights the recent U.S. regulation banning bump stocks, the attachments that enable semiautomatic rifles to fire in sustained, rapid bursts and that a gunman used to massacre 58 people and wound hundreds of others at a Las Vegas concert in October 2017.

Airing ten weeks after the Sandy Hook massacre, this program examines the power of the National Rifle Association to block gun control legislation and examines the gun culture in rural America that gives it a constituency and the rhetoric the NRA uses.

Founded in 1871, the group now has about 5 million members. More to the point, it is among the most feared and effective players in Washington and the 50 state capitals, where it lobbies, raises money and prepares field campaigns.

By cutting off federal funding for research and stymieing data sharing, the National
Rifle Association has tried to do to the study of gun violence what climate deniers
have done to the science of global warming. No wonder: When it comes to hard
numbers, the gun lobby’s arguments are full of holes.

This short article examines five common myths, or misunderstandings, surrounding the NRA.

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Additionally, recent media polls reveal that about half of Americans support enactment of stricter gun control laws, and not surprisingly, such support tends to increase as the country bares witness to the horror of these shootings via the media in the aftermath of a mass shooting. Few studies have specifically teased out the link between gun control legislation and mass murder via shooting. Some of these involve investigating the link between gun control and mass killing outside of the US.

In spite of years of journalistic and public attention and debate, the US has instituted few changes in firearms policy over the past century. Opposition diluted a brief push by the Roosevelt administration in the 1930s and resulted in two minimalist federal statutes. A second effort in the wake of the assassinations of John and Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King produced the Gun Control Act of 1968, which largely remains the primary federal law. For the past two decades, policy activity has shifted to the state legislatures and the courts, where concealed carry laws have flourished and the Second Amendment has been recognized as an individual and fundamental right.

Gun control advocates have renewed calls for Congress and the White House to act on more restrictive gun laws. This article highlights responses of both sides to recently passed gun legislation.

We evaluate the association between Comprehensive Background Checks policies and the rates of firearm background checks in three states that recently implemented these policies: Delaware (July 2013), Colorado (July 2013) and Washington (December 2014).

While background checks receive widespread support from the general public, significant problems with implementation and design still limit the population-level effectiveness of background check policies. This article reviews nine of these problem areas and suggest actions that could substantially improve the effectiveness of background check policies in preventing firearm related violence.

Description and analysis of the Second Amendment that provided the right of the people to keep and bear arms, in large part because of the need to maintain a well-regulated militia.

While intimate partners account for four percent of perpetrators of homicides of men, women are more likely to be murdered by an intimate partner, or ex-partner, than by a stranger. This article looks at the problem of domestic violence firearm deaths in the context of the highly gendered nature of victimization within intimate relationships, intimate partner homicides, and firearm ownership.

This paper focuses on the role of firearms in the increasing rates of morbidity and mortality in intimate partner violence (IPV) in the United States.

Intimate partner homicide (IPH) is a critical public health and safety issue in the USA. In this study, we determine the prevalence and correlates of perpetrator suicide and additional homicides following intimate partner homicide (IPH) in a large, diverse state with high quality data.