sociology != criminology
amirite?
i'm guessing you're not going to oblige because the statistics will not back your position.
now lets get into the actual meaning behind the gun change laws. in the recent events of sandy hook and aurora, a couple of outliers committed crimes against civilians. they are outliers in two ways: a large majority of people will never commit these kinds of crimes, and the weapons they used are not the weapons normally used in these kinds of crimes.
the reality is that these people needed help, and our health care system failed them.
gun control isn't going to stop the next sandy hook or aurora. if you look at the UK as an example, they had a rise in crime for a few years before any positive change after they had complete civilian disarmament, but the UK is different from the US because it has virtually always been illegal for civilians to own weapons dating back to the 1100's.
the UK just wasn't as saturated as the US is with guns, so initiating gun control in the US will A) increase crime and B) maintain a high level of crime for a much longer period of time than the UK did.
these background checks are just for a database for the national government to monitor gun owners.
and that's not very free.
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