Gun Control Hypothesis
Abstract
The purpose of this research paper is to prove or disprove the hypothesis of the less gun control we have will result in a decrease in murder rates. After analyzing the findings, the majority of the articles advocated that the correlation between gun control and murder rates is that the less gun control equals less murder rates. This is due to the fact that countries in the past have tried banning handguns but ended up with higher murder rates. An even more gun control ended up increasing the murder rates as well. In contrast, there are also countries that have low gun control rates and low murder rates, the United States being one of them and that is because the majority of people in the United States own a gun for self-protection …show more content…
It also says that if a person owns a gun, he or she is in higher risks of being a homicide victim. They conducted a study that consisted of taking in consideration all fifty states and examine the relationship between firearm murder rates and gun ownership from 1981 through 2010. After thirty years of study, the results according to (Siegel et al., 2013) were as follow; the mean percentage of gun ownership over all states was of 57.7%, the highest was of 76.8% in Mississippi and the lowest was of 25.8% in the state of Hawaii. From 1981 to 2010, the mean percentage of firearms ownership decreased from 60.6% to 51.7%. Finally the average handguns murder rate went down from 5.2 per 100, 000 in 1981 to 3.5 per 100,000 in 2010. Once they were done with the research, they found out a solid relationship between handgun murder rates and gun ownership rates in which states with higher levels of gun ownership also had extremely large numbers of deaths caused by firearms. All in all, the results of this study argue in favor with the idea of the more gun control there is, the less murder rates there is. Which means that this article also opposes the hypothesis of this
The purpose of this research paper is to prove or disprove the hypothesis of the less gun control we have will result in a decrease in murder rates. After analyzing the findings, the majority of the articles advocated that the correlation between gun control and murder rates is that the less gun control equals less murder rates. This is due to the fact that countries in the past have tried banning handguns but ended up with higher murder rates. An even more gun control ended up increasing the murder rates as well. In contrast, there are also countries that have low gun control rates and low murder rates, the United States being one of them and that is because the majority of people in the United States own a gun for self-protection …show more content…
It also says that if a person owns a gun, he or she is in higher risks of being a homicide victim. They conducted a study that consisted of taking in consideration all fifty states and examine the relationship between firearm murder rates and gun ownership from 1981 through 2010. After thirty years of study, the results according to (Siegel et al., 2013) were as follow; the mean percentage of gun ownership over all states was of 57.7%, the highest was of 76.8% in Mississippi and the lowest was of 25.8% in the state of Hawaii. From 1981 to 2010, the mean percentage of firearms ownership decreased from 60.6% to 51.7%. Finally the average handguns murder rate went down from 5.2 per 100, 000 in 1981 to 3.5 per 100,000 in 2010. Once they were done with the research, they found out a solid relationship between handgun murder rates and gun ownership rates in which states with higher levels of gun ownership also had extremely large numbers of deaths caused by firearms. All in all, the results of this study argue in favor with the idea of the more gun control there is, the less murder rates there is. Which means that this article also opposes the hypothesis of this