Revisiting Virginia Tech: An argument about arms

You are quite skilled in rhetoric my friend. A 1991 article in the anti-gun New England Journal of Medicine attempted to show that the registration law in D.C. reduced the average (arithmetic mean) number of gun-related homicides per month following the implementation of the law. As with other "gun control" studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine, and as with a recent study of the effects of concealed carry reform laws by researchers from the University of Maryland (to which the authors of the Loftin study were affiliated) The most curious aspect of the Loftin study is the particular span of years which the researchers chose to examine. The study period covers the years 1968-1987, which can best be described as a "plateau" period, before which murder/non-negligent manslaughter (MNNM) rates (as measured by the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports data) were much lower than during the period of study (1) Although, I do not believe that we can only look at one city when looking upon the topic of gun control. A funny side note though, Mayor Marion Barry recently said, ""If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very very low crime rate". What a stupid thing for someone in office to say! That's like saying, "I am a good person if you don't count sex with puppies"! Back to the debate… States which passed concealed carry laws reduced their murder rate by 8.5%, rapes by 5%, aggravated assaults by 7% and robbery by 3%; and, If those states not having concealed carry laws had adopted such laws in 1992, then approximately 1,570 murders, 4,177 rapes, 60,000 aggravated assaults and 12,000 robberies would have been avoided yearly. (2) According to new research by a University of California, Berkeley, law professor, the crime rate dropped dramatically during the 1990s, falling 40 percent in cities and states across the country and in all major crime categories from homicides to auto thefts, producing the longest and deepest crime decline in the United States since World War II. (3) This shows that although there are certain examples of increased crime, for the most part our crime rate has been on a decline. A criminal is defined as (4): 1.of the nature of or involving a crim 2.guilty of crime. The reason I argue stricter gun control is to protect citizens because if stricter testing would be done, psychosis or previous crimes could be detected and preventing in the purchasing of a gun. And, I would like to argue that it does directly influence the purchase of guns on the black markets. Black Market Gun Flow: Gun Law-> Less guns on market Less guns on market -> More expensive guns More expensive guns -> Less buying of illegal guns Less buying of black market guns will do either one of the two: 1.Reduce the price to match the market 2.Crash the black market do to excessive market fluxation I am not disarming citizens in my pursuit of stricter gun control, just preventing those of mental instability or those who have had previous crimes of hostility in their pursuit of guns. I'm sorry, you misunderstood me when I said, "An anti-gun lobbyists would push to make the acquiring of a gun have stronger psychological testing (Doing so would show Cho's many psychological problems)." I was talking about my form of gun control; control that does not limit citizens from getting guns, just preventing possible offenders from acquiring a gun. That is what I've argued, stronger gun control testing (although, in my version I add a criminal background check) although I disagree with your plan of the nationwide database plan for the following reason; our nation's debt and current situation of poor budgeting shows that we cannot afford to spend money on your program suggestion. It would be much easier to have a federal mandate requiring all purchases of guns to be accompanied by a signed medical form (Doing so could allow doctors to prohibit the purchasing of a firearm and it would be much cheaper). That is true, which is why anti-gun lobbyists should pursue stronger gun control testing in the psychological field, and the field of previous crimes and situations of hostility. Forgive me if I'm wrong, but I believe those who push for guns be banned are quite the opposite of those in favor of robust freedom of expression. Although, the guns do matter in the murder rate in America, guns are to murder as the pen is to the writer. As a writer cannot compose without his pen; the criminal cannot murder without his gun. Although there are many non-gun assaults, the overall picture of American homicide is that of poorly regulated gun control. Citations: (1)http://stason.org... (2)http://www.kc3.com... (3)http://www.eurekalert.org... (4)http://dictionary.reference.com...