Handgun Registration

Should handguns be restricted? Handguns have been around for many centuries and we have no control over the how the owners use them. Adam Smith in his “Fifty Million Handguns” is for registration on handguns but does not agree for the banning of handguns. Although through the eyes of some people the registering of handguns is not such an effective way of preventing criminal, domestic, accidental shootings but is a good place to start. On the other hand there are those whose idea differ from those of Adam Smith for they find registration will lead to confiscation.

Adam Smith believes that even with the registration on handguns it will not affect the rate of deaths caused by handguns dramatically. Smith also believes that guns don’t kill people, people kill people. Registration on handguns will prevent few people to own guns but will not ultimately end the production of guns for the criminals on the black market.

Don B. Kates, Jr. in his “Against Civil Disarmament”

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We come back to the banning of all handguns. Kates believes that we as a society need to be able to not only protect ourselves against criminals but, someday protect ourselves against the government. Kates also believes that registration on handguns will eventually lead to the confiscation of handguns. Registration will still allow a person to obtain a handgun. Registration will most likely not affect the amount of deaths in any ways whatsoever due to the fact that handguns will still be accessible to people. People owning a handgun is just another way of increasing the risk for accidental shootings to occur.

Criminal violence is a great issue that falls into the category of handgun deaths. The banning of handguns is a more effective way of stopping the amount of domestic deaths caused by handguns. Criminal minds are unpredictable and a registration on handguns will not prevent criminals by getting their hands on a handgun. Children are at risk everyday living in a home where a handgun is present. Most handguns that are used by criminals are likely to have been bought on the black market and to have been stolen. Banning of all handguns would be affective till the point where criminals figure out a way to create their own guns or purchase it from the black market. The registration of a handgun will not affect the amount of domestic deaths.

Accidental shootings are a sad and tragic event that occurs every day of our lives.

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