gun coutrol美国控枪政策分析.ppt

Gun control An intresting story Should America Control Guns? Why Americans love guns Reasons of gun control Why it is so hard to control guns The right way to go by Ivy Shirley I.Why Americas love guns? 1.help them become independent 2.the Second Amendment : A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed. 3.risist the tyranny of the federal government. 4.protect themselves in a legal way. 5.a symbol of Ameican culture: part and partial Against Crime and Self-defense 67% Target Shooting 66% Hunting 58% The estimates of private firearm ownership in the U.S. as of 2010: Households With a Gun Adults Owning a Gun Adults Owning a Handgun Percentage 40-45% 30-34% 17-19% Number 47-53 million 70-80 million 40-45 million 2009: 307 million people. 2010: 300 million guns owned by civilians. 100 million are handguns. Reasons of gun control 1.More guns tend to mean more homicide. Roughly 16,272 murders were committed in the United States during 2008. Of these, about 10,886 or 67% were committed with firearms. States with stricter gun control laws have fewer deaths from gun-related violence. 2.The Second Amendment does not indicate an individual right to possess a gun. A well-regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State ,the right of the people to keep and bear arms,shall not be infringed. 1.a well regulated Militia≠indivisuals 2.feasibility ?? The Second Amendment: 3.Rights and obligations Loyalty Oaths 4.Sometimes it isnt an effective way to protect life. peoples capability and the quality of the gun they own is different. a 2-year-old in Cooper County, Missouri, died after shooting himself in the head with a handgun that he got a hold of in his house. a 3-year-old in Loris, South Carolina, near Myrtle Beach, died after shooting himself in the head with a pistol that he found in the car. a 5-year-old in Belleville,