Long before this country was founded, murder, rape and robbery were illegal. More than two centuries after the nation’s founding, they remain illegal. Despite centuries of illegality and vast improvements in police practices and investigative abilities, the crimes continue.
Things that are illegal today were illegal many years ago as well. Unfortunately, laws being enforced still don't stop illegal activities from happening.
Laws do not stop criminal conduct. They define what conduct is criminal. Because of the punishments laws impose, they can have some deterrent effect but not much. If they were a strong deterrent there’d be no murders because murder has been illegal since Moses came down from a mountain with a Commandment that read, “Thou Shalt Not Kill.”
Laws don't stop illegal acts they only state what is illegal. Consequences prevent some people from criminal acts, however that isn't the case with everyone. As early as the time of Moses people weren't to kill.
It’s not law that stops us doing these things. It’s morality, decency, empathy, conscience. These aspects of our character make us who we are, and for the vast, vast majority of us, who we are is good, decent, caring, and peaceful
Laws don't prevent people from doing wrong things because only a person can control themselves from doing something. This applies to gun laws as well.
Senators Rand Paul (R-KY), Mike Lee (R-UT), and Ted Cruz (R-TX) wrote that they would oppose any legislation that infringes "on the American people's constitutional right to bear arms, or on their ability to exercise this right without being subjected to government surveillance." [80]
Even Senators in the American government believe its wrong to invade citizens privacy simply for the purchase of a gun. The constitution gave people rights to own guns. Therefore, rules on how one can access them should be unconstitutional.
Background checks would require government databases that keep personal individual information on gun owners, including name, addresses, mental health history, criminal records, and more.
Background checks give people access to almost everything about you. Your privacy has now been officially confiscated.
Prohibition didn't stop liquor use; the drug laws can't stop drug use. Making gun ownership illegal will not stop gun ownership.
Imputing more gun control laws will not change crime rates because there is always a way around the law. In the past liquor and drugs were made illegally, yet still many people have easy access to them.
Law-abiding, responsible citizens do not and should not need to ask anyone's permission or approval to engage in a peaceful activity. Gun ownership, by itself, harms no other person and cannot morally justify criminal penalties.
Good citizens who obey rules don't cause crimes so they should be allowed to have firearms without permission. Gun laws can't prevent crimes and whether they're owned illegally or not they still cause problems.
In 2013, there were a total of 33,636 firearm deaths, and 21,175, or 63 percent, were suicides, according to the CDC.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said about 34,000 people were killed from guns.
We know that states with the most gun laws tend to have the fewest gun deaths. So the notion that gun laws don’t work, or just will make it harder for law-abiding citizens and criminals [to] still get their guns is not borne out by the evidence.
It has been proved that with more enforced laws come less gun related killings.
However a key finding is that "the illegal market is the most likely source" for these people to obtain a gun. "In fact, more than half the arrestees say it is easy to obtain guns illegally," the report states. Responding to a question of how they obtained their most recent handgun, the arrestees answered as follows: 56% said they paid cash; 15% said it was a gift; 10% said they borrowed it; 8% said they traded for it; while 5% only said that they stole it.
People who were incarcerated admitted to getting guns illegally with 56% who paid for the gun, 15% accepting it as a gift, 10% borrowed a gun, 8% exchange weapons, and 5% stole guns. There are several ways to get guns and laws need to be enforced more.
Wachtel says one of the most common ways criminals get guns is through straw purchase sales. A straw purchase occurs when someone who may not legally acquire a firearm, or who wants to do so anonymously, has a companion buy it on their behalf. According to a 1994 ATF study on "Sources of Crime Guns in Southern California," many straw purchases are conducted in an openly "suggestive" manner where two people walk into a gun store, one selects a firearm, and then the other uses identification for the purchase and pays for the gun. Or, several underage people walk into a store and an adult with them makes the purchases. Both of these are illegal activities.
Criminals get guns by having someone else legally purchase the gun so they themselves have no links with the gun. This is how not only criminals but also how minors get guns in their hands.
Background checks are run to prevent sales to people who have been convicted of certain crimes, who are running from the law or who otherwise have been banned from buying guns for a variety of other reasons.
Without background checks the probability of guns, deadly weapons, being put in the wrong persons hands increases significantly.
Consistently, at least 70 percent of Americans said they favor background checks. Often, far more do. In October, a CBS News/New York Times poll found that 92 percent of Americans — including 87 percent of Republicans — favor background checks for all gun buyers.1
Although percentages sometimes appear higher than others at time the main idea is that statistics have proven that a majority of Americans are always in favor of enforcing background checks.
In dozens of polls over the past two decades, Americans have been asked if they support expanding background checks for the purchase of firearms.
Over a 20 year time period Americans all over were asked were they in favor of having backgrounds checks for people purchasing guns.
Guns were used in 11,078 homicides in the U.S. in 2010, comprising almost 35% of all gun deaths, and over 68% of all homicides.6 On average, 33 gun homicides were committed each day for the years 2005-2010
33 people die from gun homicides daily. 68% of homicides are from guns. 35% of homicides result from guns.
Between 1955 and 1975, the Vietnam War killed over 58,000 American soldiers – less than the number of civilians killed with guns in the U.S. in an average two-year period
Less people in a 20 year period war were killed compared to gun related deaths in a 2 year period in America.
Firearms were the third-leading cause of injury-related deaths nationwide in 2010, following poisoning and motor vehicle accidents.
Guns are the third top killer.
73,505 Americans were treated in hospital emergency departments for non-fatal gunshot wounds in 2010.2
Although non-life threatening people who had been shot were brought to the hospital, 73,505 is too big of a number. Clearly, guns affect many people.
n 2010, guns took the lives of 31,076 Americans in homicides, suicides and unintentional shootings. This is the equivalent of more than 85 deaths each day and more than three deaths each hour.1
In 2010 the usage of guns killed about 31,000 American people, whether from homicides, suicides, or accidental shootings. 85 people die daily from guns.
four-cornered.
Trapped can't get out, like prison walls
I am silver and exact.
This is mytonomy- mirror
Now I am a lake.
Mythological reference Narcissus; he was known for his beauty.
Made thee in raggs, halting to th’ press to trudge, Where errors were not lessened (all may judg).
Poet is afraid to publish her book because she thinks contains many errors and the audience may disapprove of it.
ill-form’d offspring of my feeble brain, Who after birth didst by my side remain,
The authour has a book that she feels is incomplete. She wants make corrections and improve her book.
I stretched thy joynts to make thee even feet, Yet still thou run’st more hobling then is meet;
Poet tried to perfect her book but that was a fail
I wash’d thy face, but more defects I saw, And rubbing off a spot, still made a flaw.
Bradstreet believed her book was perfect, however. Overtime she kept finding more problems with the text.