Do you think banning guns in the U.S. would lower the crime rate?

Answer 1

If criminals knew that honest people had no guns, you would have your door kicked in at least 2 times a week. That is if you owned anything of value say over $5.00. It is the fear that the owner may have a gun and can kill them to protect their family and property. These bums do not want to die.

Answer 2

About as much as banning pencils would end misspelled words.

If you'd like an excellent example of why "gun control" doesn't work and will never work, take a look at our Nation's Capital, Washington DC. That area has the most restrictive gun laws in the nation - it's illegal to own any kind of handgun at all - and it also has the highest MURDER rate in the nation. Additionally, the armed robbery rate is second highest...wonder why that is? Could it POSSIBLY be that the criminals in DC know that they are the only ones with guns besides the police? And we all know that the police can't be everywhere at once, right?

Banning guns is not the solution to lowering crime. If you take a gun and place it on the table in your kitchen, that gun will stay there forever....until someone else comes along and picks it up. The old saying that "guns don't kill people, people kill people" is 100% accurate. If you get it in your head to kill someone and you don't have a handgun available, you'll find something else.

So, you gonna ban knives next? Because that's the next logical choice when you don't have a gun. And when the murder rate is attributed to knives and then knives are banned, what's next?

Banning the tool is not the answer. Consequences for actions are. We currently have more than 25,000 "gun laws" in effect nationwide; why do we need more? Why not enforce the ones we already have? Slick Willy Clinton told us all that his "Brady Bill" legislation would reduce crime and make the nation safer by stricter gun control; well, the FBI national statistics for the years that the Brady Bill was in effect prove exactly the opposite. The bill had NO visible effect on crime; in a few categories, crime actually ROSE. We were NOT safer at all. On top of that, Slick Willy promised us that as a part of this ban that anyone who submitted paperwork to purchase a gun and was found to be a criminal would be prosecuted for the attempt; wanna guess how many people his Attorney General, Janet Reno prosecuted? How about ZERO?

You want to lower crime? Make it MANDATORY that EVERYONE own at least ONE handgun per household, and then train them how to use it. One of the studies that the FBI did a few years back included interviewing convicts in a Florida prison who were there for armed robbery and other offenses involving handguns, and the cons were asked why they chose certain people to rob. The majority of the convicts said that they chose thier particular victim because they were LESS LIKELY TO BE ARMED. One of them even made the statement that it was getting "too risky" to do armed robbery because Florida's recently-passed "must issue" concealed carry law meant that more people were carrying guns, and the con didn't want to get shot!

So you tell me....do YOU think that banning guns in the US would lower the crime rate?

I think not.

Answer 3

Maybe enforcing the laws already on the books might reduce crime but taking guns away from law abiding citizens won't. I have owned a gun or guns since I was 9 years old and have never committed a crime with any of them, to take my hunting, and target away for the purpose of lowering the crime rate simply will not work.

Answer 4

Has banning cocaine and heroin kept them out of the country? If guns can't be legally purchased, the drug dealers will just ship guns in with the drugs, so criminals will _always_ have guns: they're the tools of the trade. Banning guns will only ensure the people who obey the law won't have them.

The (anti-gun) Clinton administration instigated a government study to see how gun laws affect crime. They found no correlation between crime rates, murder rates, etc. and gun laws. Given their bias against guns, I read this as strong proof that gun laws do not reduce crime in any way whatsoever.

Answer 5

No it would not lower the crime rate, it will be just the opposite, it is a proven fact.
Keep in mind that banning the guns will not stop the criminals from carrying or using the guns, it will ONLY disarm the average citizens.
If a criminal was looking for his/her next victim he/she will choose the one that is not armed.
So it is safe to say the criminal would love to disarm the citizens.

Answer 6

The Australian Gov gathered all firearms to reduce crime. Crime dramnatically increased in the areas of violent crime and crimes against the elderly. The US Gov legalized concealed weapons with a permit, crime in malls and on college campuses (the two worst areas for crime) decreased dramatically. In areas of the US where sidearms are strictly limited, the relative violent crime rate is higher. In Ark the crime rate of permit holders is lower than that of the state or local police.

Answer 7

Why would you believe this? The majority of gun violence in this country is perpetrated by criminals. Criminals do not get their guns legally and are not going to give them up just because they are illegal. A better argument would be that banning guns would reduce accidental deaths related to gun ownership. The people have the right to protect themselves and feel good solutions which punish law abiding citizens will not reduce crime in this country.

To the people posting about Canada I have an honest question for you. What is the percentage of gun violence by total number of population? Further what is the same number in percentage in the US? The reason I ask this is because Canada has a population of just over 32 million, while the United States has 300 million. You must compare the actual percentage by population to properly quantify your statement, not just the number of deaths and incidents.

Answer 8

Guns are something people use to make themselves feel strong and powerful in the face of their fears. A person afraid of peer violence, a home invasion, or a car jacking.
Banning the tool will not miraculously make those same people suddenly feel powerful.

Per capita, we in Canada have about the same number of guns as the US, but we do not have the level of gun violence (we do however, have much stricter laws about obtaining guns). I have met many Americans on my trips to the US, and many American tourists who have come here, and they have always been wonderful, good people. When there is an international crisis, like a hurricane or an earthquake, American rescue workers are always amongst the first on the scene to help - they are lovely people. It breaks my heart that your media actually encourages you constantly to be afraid of EVERYTHING.
You're told to be afraid of strangers, but that most rapes are committed by people of the victim's aquaintence - so you should be afraid of them too. You're afraid of white powder in the mail, and child abductors and poisoning your own children with underdone hamburger.
I'm not sure why your newspapers and news shows are so saturated with all kinds of different threats that you have to "look out for" and "be wary of" and "guard against".
Our countries are so similar in so many ways, but here it is unusual to lock your door - and MANY people have guns. We just don't shoot one another.

I think if you want to lower the crime rate, you have to find out why everyone's lashing out at each other and address that.
Otherwise, people will just use different tools.

Answer 9

They had a poll of crimials on why they stayed in certain cities instead of other ones. Reason No.1 and No2;
are always
1)" The lighter criminal sentences "
2)" Ban on guns , So they know their victim is probably unarmed "
The person who said 55% of criminals do not use guns proves the point. If the criminal who does not have a gun approaches someone who may be carrying Will he not think twice about attacking that woman.or man

Answer 10

Too late for gun control at this point. Washington D.C. has a gun ban and its crime rate is extremely high.