1. Most Americans favor gun control
Americans are not dumb, and thats why they ignore the media and either look at facts or understand deterrence theory. Scientific polls show that people actually do not like costly regulation, police dictating who owns guns, and believe gun control laws are ineffective. This pew research poll showed 49% of Americans favored gun rights over gun control, and 45% favored gun control. (http://pewresearch.org/pubs/2251/social-issues-gun-rights-gay-marriage-abortion-presidential-campaign)
This Gallup poll examined a handgun ban law, 73% opposed 26% supported. Graph:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/150341/record-low-favor-handgun-ban.aspx
Interesting how this myth is far from reality, along with all other gun control myths.
2. Gun control works in Japan
This is always heard in these debates, look at this country low gun rates and low crime. America can be like that if we choose those laws. This is an argument showing they must be looking at blogs, liberal blogs with no sources anyway. ;)
"All criminologists studying the firearms issue reject simple comparisons of violent crime among foreign countries. It is impossible to draw valid conclusions without taking into account differences in each nation's collection of crime data, and their political, cultural, racial, religious, and economic disparities. Such factors are not only hard to compare, they are rarely, if ever, taken into account by "gun control" proponents. [...] (this quote within the quote is from David Kopel) "Contrary to the claims of the American gun control movement, gun control does not deserve credit for the low crime rates in Britain, Japan, or other nations." He noted that Israel and Switzerland, with more widespread rates of gun ownership, have crime rates comparable to or lower than the usual foreign examples."
http://www.duke.edu/~gnsmith/articles/myths.htm
3. Gun control is crime control
Is it really? Explain why when any gun control law is passed crime increases. This is often countered by correlation is not causation. I understand this, but with a STRONG correlation one can assume certain effects, whether it is responsible for the whole thing or not, occur. I am not idiotic enough to claim the law creates all of the rise, but I do think it has a large impact.
-- UK
http://www.justfacts.com/guncontrol.asp
-- Washington DC
"In 1976, Washington, D.C., instituted one of the strictest gun-control laws in the country. The murder rate since that time has risen 134 percent (77.8 per 100,000 population) while the overall rate for the country has declined 2 percent."
http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0210e.asp
-- Canada
their laws where passed in 1995
"The contrast between the rate of criminal violence in the United States and that in Canada is much more dramatic (figure 12). Over the past decade, the Canadian rate of violent crime has stayed basically flat while, in the United States during the same time period, the rate of violent crime has slid from 600 per 100,000 to 500 per 100,000 (Gannon 2001)"
www.gunsandcrime.org/faildxprmt.pdf
This means gun control had no effect in Canada.
CONCLUSION: gun control has no effect on crime, or increases crime, and is not worth the cost of losing our liberties and a whole industry in the USA.
Americans are not dumb, and thats why they ignore the media and either look at facts or understand deterrence theory. Scientific polls show that people actually do not like costly regulation, police dictating who owns guns, and believe gun control laws are ineffective. This pew research poll showed 49% of Americans favored gun rights over gun control, and 45% favored gun control. (http://pewresearch.org/pubs/2251/social-issues-gun-rights-gay-marriage-abortion-presidential-campaign)
This Gallup poll examined a handgun ban law, 73% opposed 26% supported. Graph:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/150341/record-low-favor-handgun-ban.aspx
Interesting how this myth is far from reality, along with all other gun control myths.
2. Gun control works in Japan
This is always heard in these debates, look at this country low gun rates and low crime. America can be like that if we choose those laws. This is an argument showing they must be looking at blogs, liberal blogs with no sources anyway. ;)
"All criminologists studying the firearms issue reject simple comparisons of violent crime among foreign countries. It is impossible to draw valid conclusions without taking into account differences in each nation's collection of crime data, and their political, cultural, racial, religious, and economic disparities. Such factors are not only hard to compare, they are rarely, if ever, taken into account by "gun control" proponents. [...] (this quote within the quote is from David Kopel) "Contrary to the claims of the American gun control movement, gun control does not deserve credit for the low crime rates in Britain, Japan, or other nations." He noted that Israel and Switzerland, with more widespread rates of gun ownership, have crime rates comparable to or lower than the usual foreign examples."
http://www.duke.edu/~gnsmith/articles/myths.htm
3. Gun control is crime control
Is it really? Explain why when any gun control law is passed crime increases. This is often countered by correlation is not causation. I understand this, but with a STRONG correlation one can assume certain effects, whether it is responsible for the whole thing or not, occur. I am not idiotic enough to claim the law creates all of the rise, but I do think it has a large impact.
-- UK
http://www.justfacts.com/guncontrol.asp-- Washington DC
"In 1976, Washington, D.C., instituted one of the strictest gun-control laws in the country. The murder rate since that time has risen 134 percent (77.8 per 100,000 population) while the overall rate for the country has declined 2 percent."
http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0210e.asp
-- Canada
their laws where passed in 1995
"The contrast between the rate of criminal violence in the United States and that in Canada is much more dramatic (figure 12). Over the past decade, the Canadian rate of violent crime has stayed basically flat while, in the United States during the same time period, the rate of violent crime has slid from 600 per 100,000 to 500 per 100,000 (Gannon 2001)"
www.gunsandcrime.org/faildxprmt.pdf
This means gun control had no effect in Canada.
CONCLUSION: gun control has no effect on crime, or increases crime, and is not worth the cost of losing our liberties and a whole industry in the USA.
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