Gun Safety Is Not A Panacea But It Is Useful
It is difficult to not feel emotional for recent mass shootings have taken lives of many innocent lives nationwide. Common malpractice of guns has contributed to such horrible acts leaving many individuals to protest for common sense gun control using emotional appeals to believe will contain the number of deaths from guns. While gun control may sound good on paper, this is counterproductive as to less defensive measures would be available for the victim against the aggressor. Repetitive misinformation by the media takes advantages of people’s lack of knowledge about the topic that a complete gun ban will clean the gun crime rate.
After every mass shooting the immediate response from liberals is to tell republicans how evil, wicked and immoral they are. “How many more?” “Guns are stupid!” these have been some protest from liberals against the right for law abiding citizens to self-preservation. Looking at the big cities where gun control exists, there is a correlation of gun control and rise of crime. During the Federal Assault Weapons Ban taking place in 1994, the nation was subject to over a dozen of gun violence by criminals. Gun violence has been decreasing significantly over time, not increasing as you’ll frequently hear from anti-gun politicians and progressives. The gun-related homicide rate of 3. 6 deaths per 100, 000 population in each of the years 2010, 2011 and 2013 makes those recent years. Bad things happen because there’s evil among us.
According to the United States statistics, FDA-approved prescription drugs killed 290 Americans every day resulting to 783, 936 deaths by the medical system compared to 73, 000 by firearms in 2015. Heart Disease is the leading cause of death in America according to the CDC, followed by Cancer, Chronic Lower Respiratory Disease, Unintentional Accidents, and Stroke. My intention here is not to compare death numbers, but to bring up that all of our actions or decisions have a level of risk. We don’t blame fast food restaurants for obesity or cars for accidents. If gun control was a panacea, then the big cities such as Chicago, New York City and Los Angeles would have been the safest places to live due to their strict control laws rather than among the most dangerous.
In the 1980’s the rate of homicide has fallen over half along with the gun homicide while gun ownership doubled in the late 20th century. These mass shooting events are horrible and are not condoned by anyone, but we must think radically not emotionally. Defensive use of guns by crime victims is a common occurrence, although the exact number remains disputed. Almost all national survey estimates indicate that defensive gun uses by victims are at least as common as offensive uses by criminals, with estimates of annual uses ranging from about 500, 000 to more than 3 million, in the context of about 300, 000 violent crimes involving firearms in 2008.
On the other hand, some scholars point to a radically lower estimate of only 108, 000 annual defensive uses based on the National Crime Victimization Survey. The variation in these numbers remains a controversy in the field. The estimate of 3 million defensive uses per year is based on an extrapolation from a small number of responses taken from more than 19 national surveys. The former estimate of 108, 000 is difficult to interpret because respondents were not asked specifically about defensive gun use. There’s an understanding that they are crazy people in the world. When individuals are overrun by evil like the Mandalay Bay shooter and Sandy Hook, their purpose is to inflict harm no matter the consequences leaving responsible citizens vulnerable to criminals and to an extent a tyrant government.
As we can see, we must think things through before coming with irrational solutions. We can agree to disagree, but we must look at the bigger picture here. By stripping people of self-perseverance, the crime overall will rise. In my opinion gun safety should be thought at school because is a vital right for the people just as the right of freedom of speech given by the Constitution.
