And yet while there are plenty of countries where low gun crime corresponds with low gun ownership, that isn't always the case. For the third part in our series Armed in America, CGTN's Owen Fairclough compares the U.S. with the rest of the worldCheck...
It is no surprise that Canadians pride themselves on having more gun control than the U.S. so what can the States learn from Canada? First, I intend to uncover how America’s gun laws compare to Canada’s and what steps are required to obtain a firearm in both countries. Then, I ...
Yet again, a mass shooting has sullied America. And, yet again, it is unclear what lawmakers can do to prevent the next one. Just weeks ago, the Senate passed a gun-control bill that Chris Murphy described as “the most significant piece of anti-gun violence legislation in nearly 30 ...
Gun Control in the USA and Second Amendment: Critical Analysis 3 Pages1505 Words If we compare gun laws in the U.S. with other countries, we see that in the U.S. it's not that hard to get a gun and carry it around in public. The government is not allowed to completely regulate ...
* Reason for elimination: This data does not account for other factors that may impact crime rates, such as cultural differences, arrest rates, illegitimacy rates, and poverty. Note that many gun control studies attempt to control for such factors, but opposing sides inevitably point to other fa...
Gun Control - The National Rifle Association (NRA): The National Rifle Association calls itself “America’s longest-standing civil rights organization.” Granted charter on Nov. 17, 1871 in New York, Civil War Union veterans Colonel William C. Church an
Giffords is working on a book about gun control. The Arizona Democrat and her husband, the retired Navy captain and astronaut Mark Kelly, are collaborating on "Enough: Our Fight to Keep America Safe from Gun Violence." Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, announced that "Enough" was ...
Moreover, there is some reason to think that serious gun control in countries with a strong tradition of gun ownership would be bad policy. Therefore, we should certainly not abol- ish, and arguably should not restrict, private ownership of guns without good reason. Are there good reasons?
Gun Owners of America: State of the Union
Let's imagine now two countries, both of which have populations of 250 million. Suppose 50,000 people in each of these countries are going to experience murderous impulses over the course of a year. One nation has a complete ban on guns. The other has universal gun ownership. Which nation...