Gun Bans

My opponent argues based on the quotes of people as Thomas Jefferson that gun bans don't work. Thomas Jefferson considers the prohibition of an effective means of self defense to be unethical and to violate Constitutional guarantees. However, Tasers and stun guns are non-lethal electronic self-defense weapons. Guns are more efficient on killing than self-defense weapons. If gun bans eliminate guns, then civilians won't be defenseless if they own any electroshock weapons. There may have been a few deaths, but "the newspapers never print the follow-up report that, under investigation, it was found it was not the Taser that killed them it was drugs, alcohol, etc. " Every law officer has been temporarily paralyzed by a Taser before being issued a Taser. There were no permanent injuries or trips to the hospital, because Tasers and stun guns do not kill easily as opposed to a gun. Source: . http://www.articlesbase.com... Guns may not vanish into thin air but they can be banned. I have already stated that the U. N. proposed a ban on possession of handguns by anyone other than government officials and every firearm would be registered in a vast U. N. computer bank. Although the process may take years or decades, the end result would be less gun violence. The gun stores may be closed and citizens would have to surrender their guns. If any civilians choose to keep a gun, because they're criminals, the law enforcement would have to take care of it. Civilians may choose self-defense weapons as an alternate to a gun. Since law-abiding citizens will have to obey the laws, only outlaws will have guns. Then the outlaws would be misinformed, because they think that if civilians don't have guns, they can't protect themselves. However, if the criminals get shocked by a taser or a stun gun, the police can investigate the guns and take them up. Like a zero tolerance for minors drunk driving, there could be a zero tolerance for anyone who breaks the gun control laws. My opponents think that "Guns don't kill people, people kill people" like almost every supporter of gun rights. That is why he thinks that gun bans fail, because the primary reason that we have violence and murder is that people can be criminals who don't obey the law. But guns certainly make it easier. "The founding fathers assumed that power corrupts and a government always requires checks and balances to remain true to the people's interest. For that purpose, the people must have the ability to rise against an oppressive government should the need arise and thus the need for private ownership of guns. " Therefore, America is the world's freest most uncontrolled gun culture. "No other functional democracies in the world relies on private gun ownership as a safeguard against a corrupted government. Instead they rely on dividing the power among different branches of the government and on an educated and well-informed population. " This is exactly why most countries have less murders and homicidal cases than the United States. Criminals is armed only because he too is allowed to possess firearms under the same set of laws that normal civilians do. Not every criminal has smuggled illegal guns. The same availability of guns in the United States can be accessed by criminals who will use it to commit crimes, not self defense. When the gun ban has passed and with proper law enforcement, criminals will have access to less guns than before and ultimately the number of gun-related violent crimes will drop. The people committing these murders are not members of organized criminal syndicates or terrorist. They can be adults who are emotionally unstable who have an all-too-easy access to legally-purchased guns. If the gun ban was applied, perhaps "mafia mobsters will continue to have access to black market guns even after gun control laws are passed, but at least these idiots will not. " Therefore, if the gun ban passed, less people would have access with guns and the gun violence will drop. Then all we have to worry about is terrorist and gangs who are intelligent enough to access the black markets. Knives are not even near guaranteed to kill at least half the people or less than the potential amount of victims from a single gun. Source: . http://www.darkmirage.com... The argument that gun control laws have never been effective on reducing the gun homicide rate is a myth. The fact is that the murder rate almost always falls after the enforcement of gun control laws. These are examples of stricter gun control laws, their success depending on how fully were they enforced: "# The Massachusetts 1974 Bartley-Fox Amendment, which prescribed a 1-year sentence for unlicensed public carrying of firearms, decreased gun assaults, gun robberies, and gun homicides during the 2-year period in which it was evaluated. # Several State mandatory add-ons to felony sentences for use of a gun have reduced gun homicides, but whether they have discouraged gun use in robberies and assaults is not clear. # The decrease of gun homicides in Washington D. C. following passage of the 1976 D. C. Firearms Control Act appears to have been maintained until the mid-1980's when, according to a recent study, the rise of crack markets was accompanied by a substantial increase in gun homicides. # The 1968 Federal Gun Control Act, which prohibited Federally licensed gun dealers from selling guns to certain designated "dangerous" categories of people, failed to reduce firearm injuries or deaths, apparently because of lax enforcement. # The Brady Law, which requires a background check on gun-buyers to screen out criminals, went into effect nationwide in 1994. It prevented 40,000 felons from buying guns in that year alone, and saw a 3.56 percent drop in handgun homicides, a 3.16 percent drop in aggravated assaults and robberies, and a 6.84 percent drop in the number of those crimes committed with a firearm. # Both the general homicide and gun-homicide rate declined in Canada after 1978, which may have been due to the passage of C-51, a law which considerably tightened restrictions on guns. (See Appendix C below. ) # And of course there is Europe, which has far stricter gun control laws than the U. S. , and a far lower murder rate as well. " Of course, these examples alone does not tell us if gun control was the cause of this reduction in gun homicides. "But it does present a significant challenge to those who would like to argue that gun control laws increase the murder rate, or cause murderers to choose alternate weapons. " Source: . http://www.huppi.com... Many times the Interpol serves as an authorized law enforcement body having jurisdiction investigating allegations of international weapons smuggling. The purpose of the Interpol is to focuses primarily on public safety, terrorism, organized crime, war crimes, illicit drug production, drug trafficking, weapons smuggling, human trafficking, money laundering, child pornography, white-collar crime, computer crime, intellectual property crime and corruption. Therefore, there is a way that we can stop illegal black market guns from ruining the gun ban's intended effect: to reduce the amount of gun-related crimes and possibly reduce the amount of the violence and crimes overall.