Gun Control Laws

I have three points I would like to make in regards to this issue:1. Guns laws do not work.2. States with higher concealed carry permits have less gun related crime.3. We have sufficient laws. Gun laws do not work--In 1976, Washington DC city council instituted extreme gun control measures. This law prohibited residents from possessing fully functional fire arms in their own homes. Restrictions for legal gun ownership in DC during this time period were:a) All guns must be kept unloaded. b) All guns must be rendered temporarily inoperable via disassembly or installation of a trigger lock. During this period of restriction, the murder rate was 73% higher than when the law was first implemented, and 11% higher than the rest of the US. [1] --Chicago, Illinois implemented a ban on handguns in 1982. This ban disallowed civilians from possessing handguns except for those registered prior to the law. During the ban period, murders committed with handguns rose by 40%. [1] States with higher concealed carry permits have less gun related crimes“Lott and Mustard (1997) found those states with a less restrictive law saw a 7.65% drop in murders. The new study examines data from 1980 to 2009, one of the biggest time periods in research of this kind. It also looks solely at gun crime, rather than violent crime which is the case in similar research. State level data on gun related murder is taken from the Supplementary Homicide Reports from the United States Department of Justice and the information on CCW laws was obtained from a variety of United States bodies. ” [2]States with the most gun control had the lowest gun ownership, the highest violent crime and murder rates, and the highest non-firearms murder rates illustrated in chart below. [3]We have sufficient laws nowCurrents laws include: It is illegal and punishable by up to 10 years in prison for the following people to receive, possess, or transport any firearm or ammunition: someone convicted of or under indictment for a felony punishable by more than one year in prison, someone convicted of a misdemeanor punishable by more than two years in prison, a fugitive from justice, an unlawful user of any controlled substance, someone who has been ruled as mentally defective or has been committed to any mental institution, an illegal alien,someone dishonorably discharged from the military, someone who has renounced his or her U. S. citizenship, someone subject to certain restraining orders, or someone convicted of a domestic violence misdemeanor. It is illegal and punishable by up to 10 years in prison to sell or transfer any firearm or ammunition to someone while "knowing" or having "reasonable cause to believe" this person falls into any of the prohibited categories listed above. It is illegal to "engage in the business of importing, manufacturing, or dealing in firearms" without a federal license to do so. It is illegal for any federally licensed firearms business to sell or transfer any firearm without first conducting a background check to see if the buyer/recipient falls into any of the prohibited categories listed above. It is illegal for anyone except a federally licensed firearms business to sell, buy, trade, or transfer a firearm across state lines. [1] The current laws clearly restrict gun ownership and handling in a reasonable way in a similar fashion to which pro desires. Conceal carry permits generally require a safety/training course to be completed before approval. If Pro would like to advocate enforcing current laws better I agree. However, adding news laws would be redundant and pointless. I will make rebuttals to Pros argument in the next round. [1]. http://www.justfacts.com...[2]http://www.science20.com...[3] . http://slgop.org...