Gun Control By Austin Goss Thesis Statement My

Gun Control By: Austin Goss

Thesis Statement • My Power. Point is about the situation of gun control. • Is gun Control good or Bad? • Are guns the cause of violence? • Should Americans be ban from firearms

Criminal violence i. Violent Crimes TOTAL WITH FIREARMS • Homicide 596 196 [32%] • Attempted murder 918 306 [33%] • • 236, 364 1, 130 28, 88 3, 671 5, 959 [3%] 0 7, 371 [26%] Assault Abduction Robbery Suicides • • Total suicides Firearms o Crimes 3, 671 818 [22%] TOTAL • • Homicide Attempted murder Assault Abduction Robbery Total suicides Firearm 596 918 236, 364 1, 130 28, 888 3, 671 WITH FIREARMS 196 [32%] 306 [33%] 5, 959 [3%] 0 7, 371 [26%]

Criminal violence means guns? Cause Number Heart Disease Cancer Stroke Vehicle Suicide(including firearms) Firearms 710, 760 553, 091 167, 661 43, 354 29, 350 28, 163

Accidental Deaths Cause • Falls • Poison (solid, liquid) • Choking on food or other object • Drowning • Fires, flames • Firearms Number 13, 322 12, 757 4, 313 3, 402 3, 377 776

Self- Defense • Guns save more lives than they take; prevent more injuries than they inflict • 2. 5 million citizens use their guns to defend themselves every year • Armed citizens kill more criminals than police. Citizens shoot and kill twice as many criminals as police do every year (1, 527 to 606).

Guns used in self- Defense

Second Amendment- Bearing Arms • It is the constitutional right of every American to bear firearms. • This is something that every American should take pride in, and hopefully will be a right that we will always have.

Gun Control Myths • • “Criminal Violence means guns” “Women are the victims of gun violence” “Gun ownership leads to violence” “Gun control keeps us safe”

Fact- Fiction Fact • Violent crimes have decreased by 15% in the past year. • Violent crimes have increased in Britain since their hand gun ban was put in place in 1991 Fiction • Guns make people more violent • Guns kill people • Society is becoming more violent • Taking guns from American citizens will reduce crime and violence

Legal Guns • 290 million American citizens own firearms as of 2006. • Number of gun ownership is up and crime is down.

Guns • They were created for both protect and survival • Today they are still used for them reason but also for sport and a way of like. • Guns will always be around, different people use them for different things. • Our founding fathers agreed that we should have the right to bear arms, who should be able to tell use other wise.

Bio of Sources • Ballistic Solution Modeling Of Gun Ammunition Anita Shakarwala, Madan Singh Rawatb and Anil Kumarc • DOES GUN CONTROL REDUCE CRIME OR DOES CRIME INCREASE GUN CONTROL? John C. Moorhouse and Brent Wanner • The politics of Gun Control REP. MICHAEL Jm HARRINGTON • Ditching the Rubric on Gun Control Notes from an American Moderate • Gun Ownership and the Gun Control Index Mark Gius • CAEP Position Statement on Gun Control Carolyn E. Snider, MD, MPH; * Howard Ovens, MD; † Alan Drummond, MDCM; ‡