Does Gun Control Work

Does Gun Control Work?

In America, there's a lot of debate about whether or not gun control would work in the United States. Most Republicans and conservatives want less gun control, but most Democrats and liberals want more gun control. People should know some gun control history, the amount of deaths and lives saved by firearms and also what guns are commonly owned, and know the difference between full auto and semi auto and what is a bump stock and how it works and if more gun control will work or not.

The first gun control legislation was passed on June 26, 1934. The National Firearms Act part of President Franklin D Roosevelt’s New Deal for Crime. In 1938, the FFA required gun manufacturers, importers, and dealers to have a federal

firearms license. In 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson pushed for the Gun Control Act of 1968. The GCA repealed and replaced the FFA. The bill imposed age restrictions for the purchase of handguns so they had to be at least 21 years old, prohibited felons, the mentally ill, and others from buying guns. The bill also required that all manufactured or imported guns have a serial number. In 1986 the Firearm Owners Protection Act was passed by congress. The bill also includes expanding the GCA to prohibit civilian ownership or transfer of full auto guns “machine guns” not semi auto guns made after May 19, 1986. In 1994 the Violent Crime Control and Law signed by former president Clinton. It banned the sale of semi auto rifles from 1994 to 2004. “A Timeline of Gun Control Laws.”
On average there's about 36,000 people that die from firearms. Out of that 36,000 about 22,000 die from suicide, 12,000 get murdered, 500 get killed unintentionally, 500 get killed by legal intervention and 300 die but the intent was unknown. Not many media sources break down the numbers of gun deaths. Most of guns deaths are suicides and most of the gun suicides are done by males.
According to “FBI statistics” for murders by firearms, though 2010-2014, handguns kill about 9,000 people, rifles kill about 350 people and shotguns kill about 300 people. A CDC report says that 500,000 to 3 million lives are saved by guns in a self defense situation. Some cases of just showing your firearm can deter criminals from harming you and or your family.
In America about 42 percent of U.S.

households had at least one gun in possession. The most common owned type of gun by type. The five most commonly owned pistols are Glock 19, Sig Sauer P938, Springfield XD-S, Ruger Lightweight, Smith & Wesson M&P Shield. The five most commonly owned rifles DPMS Oracle, Ruger AR-556, Kel-Tec SuB-2000, Colt LE6920, Smith & Wesson M&P15. That's just a few of the pistols and rifles. Americans own between 210 to 370 million guns there's about 55 guns per 100 people.

The AR-15 platform is the most commonly sold rifle in the US. The AR in AR-15 actually stands for ArmaLite Rifle not assault rifle. The AR is a semi auto rifle, which means one pull of the trigger only shoots one bullet you cannot purchase a full auto AR-15 they have be banned since 1986. The type of round the AR shoots is the 223. AR-15's and other semi-automatic "assault weapons" were only used in 24.6 percent of mass shootings, according to a Northeastern University

study.
“What Is a Bump Stock and How Does It Work”? Bump stocks are an accessory to a rifle. A bump stock doesn't make a gun full auto but it simulates full auto fire, but the rifle is still a semi auto rifle which makes it legal to own and have a bump stock. The way a bump stock works is the shooter holds their trigger finger in place, while applying forward pressure on the barrel and backward pressure on the pistol grip while firing which allows the gun to use the recoil to bump fire. The NRA supports the idea of tighter regulation on bump stocks.
If you want to buy a rifle you have to know what you want to buy and you should research your state laws. Then the seller has to perform a background check and make sure you're over 18. Then the FBI will check your background and make sure you're able to purchase the rifle you want. The ways you cannot buy a gun is if you're convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment of more than a year, a fugitive from justice, an illegal alien, someone under a restraining order for harassing or threatening an intimate partner or the child of an intimate partner, and a person convicted of domestic violence.
More gun control might work, or it may not. In my opinion, I beviele that to much gun control will limit law abiding Americans to purchase guns and protect themselves and their family or be able to hunt. The places with the most gun control usually have the most gun violence for example, Chicago is one of the cities with the most gun control and has one of the highest homicide rate in the country. Yes it's a good thing that we have background checks and regulations to keep criminals from buying guns that they don't need. But one thing more gun control won't stop is shootings and if you do a gun buyback, It might seem good, but in the end the good citizens would turn their guns in but not the bad.
“Repeal gun-free zones”, killers continue targeting locations where guns are not allowed.

Ninety-eight percent of public mass shootings in this country occur in gun-free zones. 81% of police officers support arming teachers and principals so that teachers can protect the students. So what would work? Repealing gun-free zones. The killer at Sutherland Springs church in Texas last November was stopped by a neighbor with an AR-15. The year before, police credited an armed firefighter with stopping a school shooting in South Carolina. He was possessing a concealed handgun.For example, France has far more gun control than we do. The French have greater restrictions on semi­-auto weapons. Yet gun ownership restrictions in France did not stop terrorists from murdering 130 people at a concert in 2015. Not only that, France had more mass shooting deaths and injuries in 2015 than during Barack Obama’s eight years as president. Repealing gun-free zones and lifting the restrictions that keep good people from carrying guns for

self-defense.
President Trump’s stance on gun control is more conservative and pro gun. Trump repeatedly promised to eliminate gun-free zones around schools and military bases. At a rally in New Hampshire on January 7, 2016, he vowed to abolish them on his first day in office, saying, “You know what a gun-free zone is to a sicko? That’s bait.”
Trump wants to arm teachers to protect the student. “History shows that a school shooting lasts, on average, 3 minutes. It takes police & first responders approximately 5 to 8 minutes to get to site of crime. Highly trained, gun adept, teachers/coaches would solve the problem instantly, before police arrive. GREAT DETERRENT!” (Donald Trump)