1. Gun Control
The gun ownership policy in Switzerland is probably the closest to the United States. With the exception of criminals and other classes of people any Swiss citizen age eighteen and older can buy and own a gun. Every Swiss citizen in the military keeps his weapon at home until retiring from military service at age 50. ...
Gun Control essay John Lithgow once theorized on "Third Rock from the Sun" that due to the kinetic energy propelling a bullet and the subsequent friction exerted on the body by that bullet that "guns don't kill people, physics kills people." In Lithgow's argument, physics, the study of matter and motion, represents the force that causes the negative effects of guns. While the idea that physics is the sole perpetrator causing gun violence sounds comical, a more feasible alternative has yet to be widely accepted. Therefore, if the cause to the gun violence is so difficult to es...
Gun Control Gun control is an infringement on our right to bare arms. Gun control activists have the illusions that banning guns will end gun related crimes and murders, but the government can't stop criminals from making or buying weapons. Gun control will make matters worse rather than help. ...
Introduction John Lott holds a PhD in Economics and teaches criminal deterrence, law and economics at the University of Chicago. Lott is a well-respected author, having published over seventy articles in academic journals. In his first book More Guns, Less Crime, Lott discusses the relationship b...
No other weapon has changed the face of the battlefield as the machine gun. It's design and and association with mass death makes it a great and powerful weapon. Two men, Hiram Maxim and Richard Gatling, made huge impacts in the development of the machine gun, making it a useful form of artillery fo...
On balance, they show that there is nothing to be gained from reducing the general level of gun ownership. (3) A thorough review of 18 studies of the effects of gun availability among potential victims and criminals found that the overall effect on criminal violence was zero. (4) In one study, researchers found no significant differences in total robbery rates between cities where guns were widely available and cities where they were not; in cities with fewer firearms, armed robbers simply used other weapons. (5) The best available evidence, based on at least eight national surveys of the gene...