Just Take Away Their Guns Analysis

Analysis On The Article “Just Take Away Their Guns “ James Q. Wilson was a professor at the following colleges. Harvard University, University Of California Los Angeles, Chicago, and Pepperdine. Wilson was involved in the fields of political science, public administration and sociology. Wilson was known to get his information from many different sources like the research of others, eyewitness accounts and research documents. His coworkers and students say he was a reasonable man. Also that he would change his viewpoint if he was wrong about something and was provided factual evidence to support the viewpoint. Wilson was open to criticism . Wilson had set ideas on “Gun Control”. James Q. Wilson wrote a great article called “Just Take Away Their Guns”. The article “Just Take Away Their Guns “ originally appeared on March 20, 1994 in The New York Times Magazine. In this article Wilson speaks about how gun laws do not work and they reduce the amount a law-abiding citizen can do to protect themselves when needed.
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In (JTATG) there are three sentences that stand out at the beginning and they are “The president wants still tougher gun control legislation and thinks it will work” ( Wilson). “ The public supports more gun control laws but suspects they will not work” (Wilson). “The public Is right” (Wilson). In the article it states that there are around 200 million firearms in private ownership and that around one-third of them are handguns.] For example, while it is true that the number of shooting rampages has increased in recent years, the rate of violent crimes and homicides for both Blacks and Whites (including those committed with firearms) has decreased significantly over the same period, despite the tremendous increase in the number of firearms in the U.S., according to both the FBI Uniform Crime Reports and the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (Miguel A. Faria