Gun control is a set of laws designed to regulate the sale and use of guns. Examples of gun control measures include licenses being required to buy and sell guns, and the use of background checks, or even just getting rid of guns completely. In the United States gun control is a hotly debated topic, due to how pervasive gun ownership is compared to other western countries, and how high gun violence is, with proponents of gun control arguing that the two are linked. I’ll spend half of this video talking about the pros of gun control and the other half on the cons, whilst allowing for each argument to receive a rebuttal.
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The main argument in favour of gun control supposes that higher levels of gun ownership cause higher levels of gun violence. The US has the highest rate of gun ownership in the world, with roughly 400 million guns in the country, or 120 guns per 100 people, as well as the 28th highest rate of violent gun death per 100,000 at 4.43, comapred to other western countries like the UK where the rate is 0.06 Source: Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. In response, opponents of gun control argue that gun violence and gun ownership are not correlated. They point to coutnries like Switzerland and Canada which have high levels of gun ownership yet much lower levels of gun violence such as suicides and murder. Furthermore, opponents of gun control point to America’s pecular demographic nature being at fault for its high level of gun violence. Gun violence in America is much higher in inner city areas than rural places, for example compare the murder rate of 55 per 100,000 in Baltimore to 1 in Vermont, a state with higher levels of gun ownership. The argument that thus follows is that tackling poverty and inner city crime would be more beneficial for reducing gun violence than gun control. However one could equally argue that Canada and Switzerland rate of gun ownership is nowhere near as high as that of US’s, both countries have about 30 firearms per 100 people, comapred to 120 in the US.
Furthermore Proponents of gun control point to not just the human cost of higher gun violence, but the financial burden of the US’s healthcare system having to fork out trillions every year to treat people with gunshot wounds. With money and lives being wasted, time is also wasted due to the cylical nature of the gun debate in America, a debate that becomes newsworthy whenever a mass shooting occurs, before fading into obscurity again. Again however, opponents of gun control argue that mass shootings only represent a tiny fraction of all violent gun deaths, and that banning weapons like assult rifles is futile when most shootings occur with handguns.
The main argument opponents of gun control use references the second amendment of the US constituion that reads ‘A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed’. To many americans the second amendment represents not just the right to self defense, but to privacy, property, and freedom from governmental tyranny and almost a certain equality with the state. Thus, to these Americans, any form of gun control represents a reduction in their individual freedom to keep and bear arms. However, it is important to note that this interpretation of the second amendment is not universally agreed upon. Some stipulate that the second amendment only entitles a militia, an army to bear arms, proponents of gun control can point to the DC vs Heller supreme court decision to back this up. Furthermore the idea that any element of gun control risks trammeling American freedom can be contradicted by looking at any number of gun control restrictions that have been put in place throughout American history for example during the mafia period,
in the gun control act of 1968, and the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act of 1994.
However opponents of gun control continue to uphold their constitutional right to keep and bear arms, with emphasis on how it prevents crimes and how it improves feelings of individual safety, for example amongst women, as well as the argument that criminals will find a way to get guns if ordinary citizens are dispossed of their firearms.
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