Transcript Gun Control - Kentucky Department of Education

Gun Control
By: Austin Goss
Thesis Statement
• My PowerPoint is about the situation of gun
control.
• Is gun Control good or Bad?
• Are guns the cause of violence?
• Should Americans be ban from firearms
Criminal violence
iViolent Crimes
TOTAL
WITH FIREARMS
• Homicide
596
196 [32%]
• Attempted murder
918
306 [33%]
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236,364
1,130
28,88
3,671
5,959 [3%]
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7,371 [26%]
Assault
Abduction
Robbery
Suicides
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Total suicides
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Firearms
o Crimes
3,671
818 [22%]
TOTAL
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Homicide
Attempted murder
Assault
Abduction
Robbery
Total suicides
Firearm
596
918
236,364
1,130
28,888
3,671
WITH FIREARMS
196 [32%]
306 [33%]
5,959 [3%]
0
7,371 [26%]
Criminal violence means guns?
Cause
Heart Disease
Cancer
Stroke
Vehicle
Suicide(including firearms)
Firearms
Number
710,760
553,091
167,661
43,354
29,350
28,163
Accidental Deaths
Cause
• Falls
• Poison (solid, liquid)
• Choking on food or other object
• Drowning
• Fires, flames
• Firearms
Number
13,322
12,757
4,313
3,402
3,377
776
Self- Defense
• Guns save more lives than they take; prevent
more injuries than they inflict
• 2.5 million citizens use their guns to defend
themselves every year
• Armed citizens kill more criminals than police.
Citizens shoot and kill twice as many criminals
as police do every year (1,527 to 606).
Guns used in self- Defense
Second Amendment- Bearing Arms
• It is the constitutional right of every American
to bear firearms.
• This is something that every American should
take pride in, and hopefully will be a right that
we will always have.
Gun Control Myths
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“Criminal Violence means guns”
“Women are the victims of gun violence”
“Gun ownership leads to violence”
“Gun control keeps us safe”
Fact- Fiction
Fact
• Violent crimes have decreased by 15% in the past year.
• Violent crimes have increased in Britain since their hand gun
ban was put in place in 1991
Fiction
• Guns make people more violent
• Guns kill people
• Society is becoming more violent
• Taking guns from American citizens will reduce crime and
violence
Legal Guns
• 290 million American citizens own firearms as
of 2006.
• Number of gun ownership is up and crime is
down.
Guns
• They were created for both protect and
survival
• Today they are still used for them reason but
also for sport and a way of like.
• Guns will always be around, different people
use them for different things.
• Our founding fathers agreed that we should
have the right to bear arms, who should be
able to tell use other wise.
Bio of Sources
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Ballistic Solution Modeling Of Gun Ammunition
Anita Shakarwala,Madan Singh Rawatb and Anil Kumarc
• DOES GUN CONTROL REDUCE CRIME OR
DOES CRIME INCREASE GUN CONTROL?
John C. Moorhouse and Brent Wanner
• The politics of Gun Control
REP. MICHAEL Jm HARRINGTON
• Ditching the Rubric on Gun Control
Notes from an American Moderate
• Gun Ownership and the Gun Control Index
Mark Gius
• CAEP Position Statement on Gun Control
Carolyn E. Snider, MD, MPH;* Howard Ovens, MD;† Alan Drummond, MDCM;‡