Essay On Crime Is The Basic Problem Not Guns?

In salinas it 's no doubt that it has a problem with crime especially ones that are committed with firearms, such as robbery, murder, and gang violence. All of which has caused damage to this community. Salinas needs to stricken up with its guns laws to a degree in that it wouldn 't infringe on people 's rights of ownership; but to keeping them out of the hands of dangerous or inexperienced people. Guns do make self defenses easier on those who seek safety and security, but it also makes potential crime more easy to turn from a bad situation to a extremely dangerous one. So once again, guns can be for safety, but the harm and loss of life will be involved with them, thus making the change for harsher gun laws for the ways of getting and owning

The NRA is a pro gun group that advocates for less gun control and the defending of the second amendment. LaPierre states that “With each felon committing over 187 felonies per year, the $430,000 it costs to let one roome free makes the $20,000 per year spent to keep one behind bars seem like a bargain.” From what the “director” is saying is that in order to combat crime you need to imprison any person that causes crime and to keep them in there because it 's cheaper to do so, this would be a total time of 21 years to match the “release” cost for the prisoner. This would prevent criminals that somehow “committed 187 felonies” for two decades, to roam the streets. However this does not solve anything but just for the punishment for the crime not in preventing it from happening, but also this begs the question in how were this criminals able to acquire this guns and how does this supposed solution also deal with other crimes that have varying degrees of

In the article” Man Shoots Own Son” Is about an event that a man named Sesmas who bought a firearm for protection due to a prior burglaries two months before the shooting of his son. The father states “...he and his wife Nely, were awakened by the opening and closing of their bedroom door...he jumped out of bed ,grabbed a pistol and opened the door saw a shadow fired low to avoid seriously hurting anyone”. By reading this statement by the father some people can see that there is no perceived burglar in the home, but a father that was fearful who wanted to protect his family; but had made some decisions that lead to the killing of his son. This unfortunate accident is a scaring one for the family, it was caused by fear of some stranger being in his home but also lack of experience/ training of the person that was behind the gun. No gun law could have prevented it but caution and awareness is needed when comes to someone owning a