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A woman in Texas is in the middle of a massacre. Dining with her parents, a man comes

in and begins a murderous rampage. While lying on the floor, she reaches for a gun in

her purse, but it isn’t there. While people are dying, her gun is lying in the trunk of her

car, because of Texas’ law against concealed carry. Twenty two people were murdered

that day, including Suzanna Gratia’s parents. Because of this law, Suzanna was helpless

to save her parents, and twenty others. Because Texas’ legislature says that allowing

citizens to carry concealed weapons is an endangerment to public safety. (Swasey, 174)

The homicide rate in Florida was 11.7 per 100,000, until a concealed carry law

was passed in 1987. It was down 20% by 1991, 9.4 homicides per 100,000. This

contrasting the national average with a 14% increase within the same time slot, showing

that concealed weapons posses no threat to society. (Swasey, 175) But does carrying a

gun really keep us safer? In Suzanna’s case, possibly yes. But does this one isolated

instance where a handgun could have saved lives outweigh the number of times that lives

are taken?

20,000-22,000 people die each year from handguns. But most of these deaths are

not committed by criminals, they are committed by us. One child dies each day from

handgun wounds. The NRA refers to hand gun suicides, accidental killings, and murders

by acquaintances as “the price of freedom”. The NRA has also admitted that, “there is no

adequate measure that more lives are saved by arms in good hands than are lost by arms

in evil hands.”(Sugarmann,187)

Surprisingly, more than half of these 20,000-22,000 deaths are suicides. Fewer

than ten percent of handgun deaths are felony-related. Death by handgun is the second

leading cause of death due to injury, car accidents are number one. (Sugarmann, 186)

Stephen P.Teret, co director of the Johns Hopkins Injury Prevention Center says,

“As public health professionals, if we are faced with a disease that is carried by some

type of vehicle/vector, like a mosquito, our initial response would be to control the

vector. There’s no reason why if the vehicle/vector is a handgun, we should not be

interested in controlling the handgun.” (Sugarmann, 187)

In 1983 handguns killed 35 people in Japan, 8 in Great Britain, 27 in Switzerland,

6 in Canada, 7 in Sweden, 10 in Australia, and 9,014 in the united states. Add 13,000

more accidents and suicides to the US total.

Gun control advocates argue that most homicides do not involve murderous

intent. Most are committed in the heat of the moment. Often between loved ones, or

close friends. An argument escalates, and the rage gets so intense that it turns fatal. Not

because there was the intent for murder, but that in the heat of the moment, a gun was at

hand. Then stating that if fewer guns were “at hand”, there would be fewer murders.

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