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8 Mayıs 2012 Salı

BLOGATHON-GUN OWNERSHIP & RELATED PROBLEMS


 

Gun owners usually state the reasons as self defense, target shooting or hunting but, owning a gun can bring about many terrifying consequences. To whomever I ask  if they met someone been harmed by firearms, usually they state that they met. This means each of us have the possibility of being a victim. In order to be prevented from these problematic consequences, some precautions must be taken. I won't claim that firearms should totally be banned. Surely, guns are needed for military, police and some security stuff. But I think, gun legislations should be very restrictive. The only limit for taking a gun license mustn't be the age.
So as to provide a strong view, the term gun control has to be understood exactly. Can it be physical control of guns? Or maybe never missing the aim? None of them actually. The term 'gun control' refers to the all efforts to restrict or limit the possession, production, importation, shipment, sale, and use of guns by private citizens. The gun control issue is a highly contentious one.  Many issues can be discussed under the title gun control. The most common arguments can be ordered as domestic violence, self defense, civil rights, civil duty, armed forces' reserves and resisting tyranny. But instead of arguing each of these points , I prefer to look some facts and data.  




As it is usually thought, gun violence does not only mean a homicide. It may be broadly defined as a category of violence and crime committed with the use of a firearm. It encompasses all homicides, suicides, unintentional injury and deaths caused by firearms.  A big majority of authors agree with the idea that increased gun ownership rates also increase the crime rates.  In order to make a clear view, lets observe the relation between gun law reforms and the violence rates. Texas is a good example. In the early 1990s, Texas's crime rate was 40 percent above the national average. Since then, crime rate dropped 50 percent faster than for the nation. All this happened after passage of a concealed-carry law in 1994. A similar decrease in Florida can be seen on the figure above. Also the decrease of firearm death rates has been observed in Australia after law reforms.
The second crucial point is suicides. Many research shows an association between gun ownership and suicide rates. For example, individuals owning a gun are close to five times more likely to commit suicide than those who do not own. In the United States, firearms remain the most common method of suicide, accounting for 62.1% of all suicides. A graph showing that the drop of suicides after gun law reforms in Austria is shown above. 
As you may already know in 2011 Turkey has tried to change its gun legislation and if the legislations had been approved, ones who are over 21, could own up to 5 guns. How logical is it right? Also, I don't think Turkey's policies about illegal gun trading are sufficient and the age limit for handling a gun must be between 24-27. Lastly, I yokels has to be mentioned about. Yokel briefly can be defined as the person who uses guns to celebrate a moment such as a wedding ceremony or a soccer victory. Too many citizens have been injured or killed in Turkey by them for years.  If we couldn't change these laws they will continue threatening our life.
Consequently, all of the problematic issues as suicides, homicides, yokel terror and the crime including any type of a firearm could only be intercepted provided that we have harsh gun control legislations. A composure society can only be created by leaving all commercial profits which forms the main reason of avoiding these type of laws.
Have any of your family members or your friends been injured or killed by firearms?



Do you agree with the idea that guns are needed for self defense?


Handguns are the cause of most of our gun-related problems. Banning them will greatly reduce the number of people dying each year. Do you agree?


Turkey has been named as ''contraband gun heaven'' for years. Just in 2010, thousands of contraband guns have been acquired which has more than 800 foreign sources. Do you think Turkey's gun policies are enough to stop illegal gun trading?


Homicide rates can be decreased by restrictive gun ownership legislations. Do you agree?



Suicide rates can be decreased by restrictive gun ownership legislations. Do you agree?



Accidental/Unconventional death rates can be decreased by restrictive gun ownership legislations. Do you agree?



REFERENCES


Lambert, M., T. & Silva, P., S. (1998). An Update On The   Impact Of Gun Control Legislation On Suicide.   Psychiatric Quarterly, Vol. 69, 127-134.

 Lott, J., R. (2001). Guns, Crime, And Safety. Journal of Law   and Economics, vol. XLIV,605-614.

Mialon, H., M. & Wiseman, T. (2005). The impact of gun   laws: A model of crime and   self-defense. Economic   Letters, vol. 88, 170-175.


My friends that I commented their blogs=
Steve Neufield http://sfltdu.blogspot.com/2012/05/abuse-misuse-and-no-usewhere-are-we.html
Beril Bulur http://blogbrgd.blogspot.com/2012/05/rives-3-minute-story-of-mixed-emoticons.html
Çağdaş Ekmekçi http://e186442.blogspot.com/
Bülent Yüksel http://e180301.blogspot.com/2012/05/although-most-of-instructers-think-that.html#comment
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Meryem http://merympolat.blogspot.com/2012/05/potential-problem-of-internet-filter.html
Carla http://ccab89.blogspot.com/2012/05/blogathon-young-juvenile-tried-as.html




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  1. Çağdaş Ekmekçi8 Mayıs 2012 14:50

    Hmm just like i said before gun ownership is a important in unsecure areas people can own a gun because of feeling insecure . However in most of not developed countries like Afrikan countries lots of people die in civil wars. We can not ignore this i guess.

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  2. meryem9 Mayıs 2012 11:22

    The significance of this subject is clear.It is obviously fact that the use of the guns must be restricted by legislation according to age or status of usage.However we can't disregard the condition of the undeveloped countries as çağdaş said.As all of us know, there are many countries which are still in civil war and insecure situation.Thus,to restrict of the guns should depend on the condition of countries. On the other hand,some points you stated are absolutely right.One of the most important of them is ''yokel terror''. In order to under control the events which it causes and prevent the badly consequences, some strict regulations must be put into effect.Moreover, İf we take into consideration of our country situation, I exactly agree with you in the matter of changing the laws regarding with restricting of the gun owners and illegal gun trading.

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  3. ccab17 Mayıs 2012 13:31

    What I can say is that Guns in general are dangerous and everybody knows that. When we see a person carrying a gun we automatically think 2 things: he is a policeman or criminal. I think only the authority should care guns. As the article of Erkan shows us it can be seen that civil people carrying guns, it just increase the rate of death in a country although some of people claim that is for their own protection. There should exist rules to prohibit the use of guns by civilians. By answering Erkan's question, people don't need guns for self-defense. In a country, there exists laws and people who are professionals and follow the law. They exist to help civilians to solve their problems. What could happen to normal people who have guns? for example: their children can see the gun and play with it, thinking that is a normal toy. They can harm themselves or even other lives. it is really dangerous. I think hand guns should be banned.It is really dangerous the use of this objects, people really have to know that. Our world is not good. We can see the rate of violence has increased, lots of deaths. The ban of hand guns will decrease not only the rate of homicides but also suicides. People should really think carefully when using these kind of objects which causes a great damage in our lives.

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