GUN CONTROL

Gun Control

Gun Control

Hypothesis

The current gun control system implemented is a flawed design requiring critical attention and massive reform to eradicate festering political issues.Introduction

Gun control or gun control is the restriction of development, testing, manufacture, deployment, proliferation or use of weapons. Gun control is one of the most commonly proposed methods for reducing violent crime. Defined narrowly, it is the enactment and enforcement of laws regulating firearms. More broadly, it is any organized effort to regulate firearms, which could also encompass civil suits aimed at the firearms industry and voluntary gun turn-ins and buybacks. These restrictions can happen both domestically and internationally, through agreements between countries. (Winkler 2007) Using data from the 2000 American National Election Study and the Uniform Crime Reports, this research studies the impact of core values and contextual effects on gun control policy preferences. The research seeks to produce a contextually sensitive model of gun control policy preferences that accounts for the nature of the elite message war regarding the issue of gun control and for both long and short-term contextual factors that might sway individual opinions at the point of stimulus (e.g., the survey question). While the analysis does find conditioning effects, the effects do not conform to the theoretical expectations, and they are generally weaker than expected. In contrast, the research demonstrates the strong connections that formed in the public's mind between ideological, partisan and gender-based core values and gun control policy preferences. These results are consistent with research that found the effects of political messages often vary in counterintuitive ways due to variance in the strength of the message and political awareness.

Replicating this research across various time periods permits the investigation of the decay rate of impacts on individual policy preferences created by substantial, one-time contextual effects. It may be that contextual effects have a substantial impact in the short-term, but these short-term impacts are mitigated over the long- term by continual reinforcement of the basic themes employed by elites in the message war surrounding the issue. (Valdez 2003)

Control over civilian possession

Gun control has existed in varying degrees throughout the history of civilizations and the time of Emperor Diocletian in the third century AD, all weapons of the Roman Empire were manufactured in fabricae calls under control of the praetorian prefects. The workers in these factories were the treatment of soldiers, and were marked to facilitate identification in case of a possible leak. (True & Utter 2000)

In many cases, restrictions on civilian possession of weapons have been used to control any uprising of the oppressed classes. In the twelfth century sought to prohibit the use of crossbows, because its management did not need much training, which causes a person with little education in the war could kill a knight. (Moorhouse & Wanner 2006)

This is the argument put forward by certain groups of opinion, as the National Rifle Association and other associations of ideology predominantly liberal or neoliberal, who advocate the abolition of gun control in the civilian population, arguing that, historically, the limitation to carry weapons by the civilian population has been large preface social or ethnic killings, although most advanced societies, especially in Europe, this control is generally accepted as beneficial. At present, Japan is one of the most restrictive gun control in the population, and the United States one of the least.Tracking

To facilitate the task of gun control was the notion of traceability, which is marking all weapons and ammunition through various techniques, ranging from the serial numbers to the sensors frequency, or specific labeled in explosives. However, in many cases the traceability of weapons is included in strategies to ...