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This 4 page paper discusses the issues surrounding gun control and argues against gun control based on two articles analyzed: Kellerman: Gun Onwership as a Risk Factor, and Polsby: The False Promise of Gun Ownership. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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states the second amendment to the Constitution of the United States. However, this amendment has come under fire for decades as concerns the rights of the ordinary citizen to purchase,
bear, and utilize weapons for purpose of recreation, protection, and occupation. A hotly debated topic, there seems to be no neutral ground. Either one believes in gun control or one
believes in gun rights. Daniel D. Polsby, in his article, The False Promise of Gun Control illustrates one such perspective, while Arthur Kellermanns, Gun Ownership as a Risk Factor for
Homicide in the Home, firmly examples the opposite camps philosophies. Polsbys stance indicates that despite all the hype, gun control will not solve the problems that it says it
will. One of the major reasons that there is such a clamor for gun control is the criminal element. Gun control, or so it is suggested, would limit the number
of crimes committed with guns. However, this is a false promise because criminals, with their various networks and associations, have no trouble obtaining a weapon when the need arises.
Secondly, Polsby states that while it is easy to obtain the statistics for people who have been wounded or killed by handguns, it is more difficult to obtain records and
statistics which show how many people have avoided or saved their own lives aided by the owning of a gun (Polsby 1994). In other words, Polsby suggests that with gun
control laws even more stringent, making it more difficult for the average citizen to arm himself, crime will actually rise, more people will be killed, and in the end, it
will work against that which it seeks to eradicate. Lastly, Polsby argues that gun control will be difficult, as has already been shown to be true, to enforce. Waiting times,
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