Do Guns Have Lower Crime Rates

States that allow citizens to carry guns have lower crime rates. Studies have shown that cities with high crime rates have dropped when concealed carry laws have passed (Opinion,2017). Statistics show that guns make states safer or at least not anymore dangerous (Gillin and Sherman, 2015).

According to the research done by the Clinton Justice Department, citizens that abide by the law use guns in about 2.5 million times each year to defend themselves (Writers, 2018). In Texas the mass shooting could have been a lot worse if a neighbor that had a firearm, had not taken the matter into his own hands and made the shooter stop what he was doing, because the neighbor returned the fire with bullets of his own. Also in the Thorton Walmart shooting,

Modern intelligence shows that communities that have soaring crime rates, are declining (R.B., 2018). Crime rates such as murders, assaults, rapes, and robberies, create economic costs. The victims who survived and the families that have family members lost in the crime, lose earnings, and end up having tolls taken on them physically, and mentally. Also violent crimes make it so that there is large costs for the communities (Shapiro and Hassett, 2012). In states that allow citizens to carry firearms, the percent of violent crimes are twenty-three percent lower than states that do not allow citizens to carry guns (Gillin and Sherman, 2015).These costs are through lower property values, reduced investment, and higher insurance premiums. This is all because of high crime rates. (Shapiro and Hassett, 2012). As crime rates raise, the desire to move into a neighborhood lowers, and then the house prices are cheaper, because nobody want to live in an unsafe neighborhood. This is also related because of the neighborhood satisfaction, which would lower when the crime rates go up (R.B., 2018). Violent crimes can be stopped by citizens carrying guns and protecting themselves by using firearms to defend themselves, like the 2.5 million people in the United States of America that are already using firearms to protect themselves (Eng, 2018). All of these crimes that are being committed by citizens that go against, other residence that do not have anything to protect themselves with such as a gun create a problem for taxpayers because they create a financial problem. This occurs because taxpayers, help pay the police, that keep criminals away from innocent citizens, that don’t have anything to protect themselves with (Shapiro and Hassett,