Laws to control guns only lead to an increase in crime
Recently, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that D.C.’s handgun ban is unconstitutional because the Second Amendment protects the individual’s right to keep and bear arms.
Gun-control supporters claim irrelevantly and incorrectly that gun control, which includes bans, prevents crime.
Within 15 years after D.C. banned handguns, its murder rate tripled. Since 1988, its murder rate has been the highest among major U.S. cities every year but three. Across the Potomac in Virginia, where handguns can be legally carried for protection against criminals in most places, violent crime is a fraction of what it is in D.C.
The burden of gun crimes should be placed on criminals. Enacting restrictive gun laws only places that burden on the law-abiding.
Gun control has worked for criminals and against law-abiding citizens elsewhere. California has a waiting period on firearm sales; prohibits private sales, trades and gifts of firearms between family members and friends; prohibits buying more than one handgun in a 30-day period; and has an “assault weapon” ban. But California’s murder rate is 24 percent higher than the rest of the country.
Studies for Congress, the National Academy of Sciences and Health and Human Services have found no evidence that gun control reduces crime, at home or in foreign countries.
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