What is the most effective method of reducing the amount of guns in America that everyone could be happy with?
The “number” of guns has little or nothing to do with crime. If that were true then firearms museums, factories where they are made and warehouses where they’re stored would be littered with dead bodies. If crime reduction is your goal then we need to deal with the reasons people commit these crimes instead of dealing with the number of firearms in the hands of law abiding people. Firearm have a legitimate purpose in society and help protect the people from harm day to day in a very real way. Read the Constitution of the United States and try and understand the purpose first and then attack the problem of criminal use. Criminal use can be broken down into a few categories and we need to focus on them individually. One is drug use. Drug related crime with the use of firearms is by far the most prevalent. Solve the drug problem and you solve the gun death problem. The second is terrorists. Mass shootings are a terrorist act. They are meant to terrorize mass amounts of people for personal reasons. The only defense is to be alert for the signs of someone planning to do something of that nature. Any attempt to disarm honest people will only make it easier for them to commit terrorist acts. The third is accidental deaths. Teaching firearm safety is essential to reducing accidents and should be a required course in schools. The NRA has been in the forefront of that for decades and we would do well to take their advice in implementing that into our schools. The fourth is suicides. The mentally ill need help, we need to seriously look at mental health facilities to help these people get through life. We turned our backs on them for too long and need to take a more modern look at housing them in a facility that will ensure some level of safety for them and the people around them. Shutting down the asylums and turning these people into the streets was not the answer.
Are there ways to reduce gun violence that have nothing to do with guns?
Of course, in fact ALL potentially effective ways to reduce gun violence have virtually nothing to do with guns, per se. The problem with “gun violence” is entirely a problem with “violence,” and solutions to that issue are all social and/or psychological in nature. The rise of antisocial “antiheroes” in the media, the glorification of killing per se (as opposed to killing or otherwise defeating, only those who harm others, which was the norm in movies and TV shows prior to the 1970s), the glorification of “Gangsta' culture,” and the increasing inability of our legal system to catch, or especially to punish, evildoers, are probably all significant factors in the rise of “gun violence” and all are susceptible to social methods of prevention. Unfortunately, our current American population, and its media representatives, lack the will to address these issues publicly.
Does Gun Control reduce crime?
i need a paragraph defending the fact that gun control reduces crime.. (which it doesnt, but i have to make a defense for the opposite side of my argument) anything that points to the fact that it actually works would be appreciated.. NO IT DOESN'T WORK ANSWERS!!!!!!!!! (i know it doesnt)
What are the most empirically effective gun control regulations for reducing gun related homicides?
There are no gun control laws that can be shown by research to be effective. All such research that claims such results is flawed as it is impossible. For such laws to be effective that must obviously be a causal relationship. Nobody in the world has demonstrated this elusive relationship gun control claims exists but cannot exist. Scientifically they is no known method whereby objects can influence people and cause them to do anything. Why people expect to get results when the available evidence mandates failure is a testament to the power of propaganda and the willingness of people who have not been taught to question gullibility to believe.First Reports Evaluating the Effectiveness of Strategies for Preventing Violence: Firearms LawsDuring 2000--2002, the Task Force on Community Preventive Services (the Task Force), an independent nonfederal task force, conducted a systematic review of scientific evidence regarding the effectiveness of firearms laws in preventing violence, including violent crimes, suicide, and unintentional injury. The following laws were evaluated: bans on specified firearms or ammunition, restrictions on firearm acquisition, waiting periods for firearm acquisition, firearm registration and licensing of firearm owners, "shall issue" concealed weapon carry laws, child access prevention laws, zero tolerance laws for firearms in schools, and combinations of firearms laws. The Task Force found insufficient evidence to determine the effectiveness of any of the firearms laws or combinations of laws reviewed on violent outcomes.FIREARMS AND VIOLENCE: A CRITICAL REVIEWCommittee to Improve Research Information and Data on FirearmsExecutive SummaryFor example, despite a large body of research, the committee found no credible evidence that the passage of right-to-carry laws decreases or increases violent crime, and there is almost no empirical evidence that the more than 80 prevention programs focused on gun-related violence have had any effect on children’s behavior, knowledge, attitudes, or beliefs about firearms. The committee found that the data available on these questions are too weak to support unambiguous conclusions or strong policy statements.