Gun control

About: Gun control is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1211 publications have been published within this topic receiving 16516 citations. The topic is also known as: firearms control & gun law.

The District of Columbia Gun Ban: Where the Seductive Promise of Gun Control Meets Reality

Abstract: The District of Columbia’s handgun prohibition is the most-studied gun control measure in this country. After over thirty years there is still no reliable evidence to support the ban’s efficacy. There is no evidence that the gun ban has lowered violent crime, reduced the illegal gun supply, prevented any firearm accidents or suicides, or had any advantageous effect whatsoever. There is, however, good reason to believe that the gun ban has harmed the District by making law-abiding citizens helpless in one of the most crime-ridden cities in America. Supporters of the District’s gun ban say that it has helped counteract the plague of violence that has long afflicted the city; thirty years of research has proven such sentiments to be based on wishful thinking and political myths. Robert Endorf is a graduate of NYU Law School and is a lawyer in Kentucky.

Firearms and Violence in Australia

Abstract: This paper provides basic information on firearms and gun control It presents statistics on the availability of firearms in Australia and their use in crimes of violence It then examines the Canadian experience of introducing gun control measures and considers the role of law enforcement in the regulation and use of firearms The authors comment on several specific proposals for gun control, including customs interdiction, security measures, limits on media portrayals of weapons use, and penalties for gun related offences

The production of criminal violence in America: is strict gun control the solution?

Abstract: trict gun control” (SGC) has no clear meaning, so it is necessary to clanfy it. I define SGC as “S an array of legally sanctioned restrictions designed to impose firearm scarcity on the general population. SGC’s public policy goal, gun scarcity, commonly rests on the predicates that “dangerous criminal control” is not the central problem for reducing the problem of criminal gun violence but rather that it is the social prevalence of the distinctively-lethal instruments (guns) by which both supposedly “good citizens” as well as violent criminals inflict a staggeringly high percentage of injury and death. Professor Zimring (who also has an essay published in this issue) is one SGC‘s most distinguished, prolific and comprehensive theorists. He has advocated for handgun scarcity among the general population since at least 1969.’ Recognizing that Americans have had a long love affair with their guns and are loathe to give them up, Zimring has been candid that stigmatizing guns must be a compcnent of a violence-reduction strategy that seeks ultimately to impose gun scarcity on the general population? He has been candid too in acknowledging that none of this will be accomplished quickly, easily, or cheaply. Thus, in 1989, he predicted a grim, culture-rending and violent future for America over the near term, even if the policies he favors were enacted. He wrote “The most marked reduction in firearms violence cannot be expected until well past the introduction of legislation designed to achieve handgun scarcity and long after the period of most intense social and political detriment or cost.”3 Professor Zimring argues that even the most cursory review of American gun-homicide data show that reducing guns’ “market share” of homicide must be a key

Gun System and Gun Control Management System Prohibit Gun Violence in Reactive and Proactive

Abstract: The Gun System and Gun-Control Management System is a two part system to thwart gun violence in any places. The Gun System is a microprocessor with memory and supporting components that are embedded in the gun. The CPU of the Gun System executes software with data from the memory to identify authorized users with stand-alone electrical device; to discharge Unauthorized user with remote power switch or systems; to prohibit firearm use in restricted areas such as schools and other public places with GPS device and disable the gun trigger by moving it into the locked position with disabling device. In this way, the gun system thwarts gun violence in a reactive mode. The Gun-Control Management system maintains a plurality of database in communication with multiple gun systems to thwarts gun violence in proactive mode.