A Criminologist's Case Against Gun Control

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Are you tired of losing friends over crimes that can be easily resolved? Firearms are generally classified into three broad types: (1) handguns, (2) rifles, and (3) shotguns. Rifles and shotguns are both considered “long guns.” A handgun is a weapon designed to fire a small projectile from one or more barrels when held in one hand with a short stock designed to be gripped by one hand. A rifle is a weapon intended to be fired from the shoulder that uses the energy of the explosive in a fixed metallic cartridge to fire only a single projectile through a rifled bore for each single pull of the trigger. A shotgun is a weapon intended to be fired from the shoulder that uses the energy of the explosive in a fixed shotgun shell to fire through a smooth …show more content…
Each article “A Criminologist's Case Against Gun Control” and “Gun control isn't the answer” have their own thoughts about mentally ill people using guns, suicides, death rates going down but firearm numbers went up, and to ban guns or not. The article by Jacob Davidson, “A Criminologist's Case against Gun Control”, focuses more on different ways we can prevent and decrease the use of gun violence around the word. Throughout the article many ideas were stated like keeping guns away from the mentally ill, mandating background checks for private sales, and working on law enforcement strategies aiming at the people who are most likely to commit gun crimes. There are federally required background checks on purchasing weapons; many states (including Virginia) limit gun purchases to one a month, and juveniles may not buy them at all. But even if there were even tougher limits, access to guns would remain relatively easy. Those that they cannot buy, they will steal or borrow. (Wilson pg.2) The federal law says that a person who has ever been involuntarily committed to a mental hospital or who has been found by a court to be mentally defective is prevented from buying a firearm, but that would disqualify a very small number of people.
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