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...

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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...

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America is the most well armed nation in the world, with "American citizens owning about 270 million of the world's 875 million firearms" (MacInnis). Indeed, this is more than a quarter of the world's registered firearms. The reason why Americans own so many guns is because of the Second Amendment, ...

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