assignment
Cards (13)
- research method 1
- Survey
- Find publics view on abolishing guns
- I get to choose the questions
- Quick and easy to fill out
- Not representative of society as a whole
- People who filled it out knew me personally
- Get more people to fill out my survey
- Research method 2
- NRA website
- Well funded organisation, knowledgable about guns laws/rights
- Up to date with American gun laws
- Updated by professionals
- Biased website, one sided
- Look at different articles to find out their full view
- Watch a debate of NRA rep and anti gun campaigner
- Aims
- To find arguments that guns should be abolished in the US
- To find arguments that guns should not be abolished in the US
- To find the publics view on guns being abolished in the US
- Aims 1
- Source E, guns aren’t effective in deterring criminal activity
- One of the major arguments is that guns can be used for self defence
- It is shown that guns are not effective in deterring shooting or criminal activity
- For example, 327 people are shot every day in the US, 117 die while 210 deal with life altering injuries
- Aim 1
- Source E, I found out that guns are not typically used for self defence
- Even though many guns owners state they own a gun for self defence reasons (72% in 2023)
- However, 9 times as many people report being victimised by a gun than being protected by one
- Aim 1
- Source E, most defensive gun uses are harmful to society
- There are many more non violent occurrences that turn violent quickly by irresponsible and uneducated gun owners
- For example, on April 13 2023, 16 year old Ralph Yarl went to the wrong house to pick up his brothers and was shot by an 84 year old man
- Aim 2
- Source G, guns are a second amendment right
- Many citizens of the US believe owning a gun is something they deserve
- For example, the NRA states that gun control places limits on Americans freedom
- Aim 2
- Source G, gun control does not work the way advocates say it does
- criminals will not obey gun control.
- By definition, a criminal disobeys the law and will therefore disobey gun control
- For example, only 10% of criminals who used a firearm arm during the crime they committed to get them to jail got it through a retail/ethical source, 90%obtained it illegally
- Aim 2
- Source B, owning a gun for protection can reduce the likelihood of robbery, assault and rape
- Survey conducted by California state University Professor Gary Kleck shows that all different types of guns were used more defensively than criminally
- For example, using a gun reduces the risk of injury to close to zero when being assaulted
- Aim 3
- Source A, majority of people in America believe it is too easy to obtain a gun (61% day it is too easy)
- However, America is split whether it is more important to protect the Second Amendment Right to own a gun or control gun laws
- Aim 3
- From source H, I found out that many people feel unsafe around guns
- On my survey, the average rating is a 2.8/10 on how safe you feel around guns.
- I also found out that 70% of people that completed my survey say that abolishing guns in the US will reduce violent crime rates
- This is substantially larger than the 12% who said it would not reduce violent crime rates
- Aim 3
- From Source A, I found out that around half of Americans (49%) say that gun violence is a major problems
- This is highlighted when the majority of Kindergarten to grade 12 teachers said that they were at least somewhat worried about the possibility of a shooting happening at their school
- Conclusion
- In conclusion, I believe that guns should be abolished in the US
- This is because many Americans have shown interest that they want to increase gun laws and make it harder to obtain a gun
- Even though American gun owners say they own a gun for self protection, statistics show that gun ownership does more harm than good
- Overall if their were less guns in America, I believe people would feel safer and accidents involving guns are less likely to happen