Will gun control crime

Answer 1

In theory it should do. Unfortunately, if there was an outright ban of firearms ownership, criminals would not obey the law anyway. They would remain armed and the rest of the law-abidng citizens would not, and this would only make matters worse.

Answer 2

The most very basic answer is no, it doesn't. Gun control makes it harder for legal citizens to buy and possess guns, but criminals don't abide by the laws anyway, the guns that are in the hands of the criminals are acquired illegally (Black Market), or alternate means. Making purchacing laws at gun stores more difficult, isn't doing ANYTHING to lower crime, all that is doing, is infringing the second amendment, nothing more, and nothing less. Making gun laws stricter does NOTHING to lower crime. You can even have a total ban on ALL firearms in the country, have it illegal to have ANY firearm, and gun crime will STILL be as strong as ever, why?, because the guns the criminals get, are ILLEGALLY IMPORTED, NOT bought at gun stores, the ONLY people who buy from gun stores are law abiding citizens with clean records, I mean, why would a criminal go to a gun store and try to buy a gun?, they'll just see his criminal record! Instead, he gets them illegally. Bottom line, making it harder to buy guns, does NOTHING to lower gun crime.

Fact: Switzerland has relatively lenient gun control for Europe35, and has the third-lowest homicide rate of the top nine major European countries, and the same per capita rate as England and Wales.36

Fact: Indeed, the Swiss basically have a military rifle in nearly every closest. "Everybody who has served in the army is allowed to keep their personal weapon, even after the end of their military service."37

Fact: "We don't have as many guns [in Brazil] as the United States, but we use them more."38 Brazil has mandatory licensing, registration, and maximum personal ownership

quotas. It now bans any new sales to private citizens. Their homicide rate is almost three (3) times higher than the U.S.39

Fact: In Canada around 1920, before there was any form of gun control, their homicide rate bwas 7% of the U.S rate. By 1986, and after significant gun control legislation, Canada's homicide rate was 35% of the U.S. rate - a significant increase. 40In 2003, Canada had a violent crime rate more than double that of the U.S. (963 vs. 475 per 100,000).41

Fact: Many of the countries with the strictest gun control have the highest rates of violent crime. Australia and England, which have virtually banned gun ownership, have the highest rates of robbery, sexual assault, and assault with force of the top 17 industrialized countries.42

Fact: The crime rate is 66% higher in four Canadian Prairie Provinces than in the

northern US states across the border.43

Fact: Strict controls over existing arms failed in Finland. Despite needs-based licensing,

storage laws, transportation restrictions,44 Finland experienced a multiple killing school

shooting in 2007.45

Myth: Britain has strict gun control and a low crime rate

Fact: Since gun banning has escalated in the UK, the rate of crime - especially violent

crime - has risen.

Fact: Ironically, firearm use in crimes has doubled in the decade since handguns were banned.46

Fact: 67% of those with an opinion believe that "As a result of gun and knife crime, the area I live in is not as safe as it was

36 Carol Kalish, International Crime Rates, Bureau of Justice Statistics Special Report (Washington:

Department of Justice, May 1988). 1984 data for Switzerland, and the 1983 data for England and Wales.

37 Army rifles remain racked at home, Swiss Defense Ministry statement, May 15, 2004,

http://www.swissinfo.org .

38 Chocolates for guns? Brazil targets gun violence, Rubem César Fernandes, executive secretary of Viva Rio, a nongovernmental agency that studies urban crime, Christian Science Monitor, August 10, 1999

39 Homicide trends in the United States, U.S. data: Bureau of Justice Statistics, September, 2004. Brazil data: Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2005.

40 Targeting Guns, Gary Kleck, Aldine Transaction, 1997, at 360.

41 Juristat: Crime Statistics in Canada, 2004 and FBI Uniform Crime Statistics online.

42 Criminal Victimization in Seventeen Industrialized Countries, Dutch Ministry of Justice, 2001.

43 A Comparison of Violent and Firearm Crime Rates in the Canadian Prairie Provinces and Four U.S. Border States, 1961-2003, Parliamentary Research Branch of the Library of Parliament, March 7, 2005.

44 National Report by Finland, United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs.

45 Pekka-Eric Auvinen shooting in Tuusula, Finland on November 8, 2007.

46 Weapons sell for just £50 as suspects and victims grow ever younger, The Times, August 24, 2007.

Answer 3

Guns don't kill only people kill. If more people carried guns to protect themselves, there would be less violent crime.