Gun disputes happen all the time, whether you're just hanging around with a group of friends or out in public doing whatever. Some people think guns are very important, which is why they are in our Constitution. But others think they should be restricted even more to lower homicide rates. My thesis states that increasing gun restrictions will not lower the rate of homicides in the U.S.

 

The United States sees roughly I sad 25,000 homicides each year, with about 20,000 being caused by firearms. This may seem like a lot of deaths, but if you compare it to a country like Brazil, which sees roughly 44,000 homicides each year, it's not as big. Now, America has some of the loosest restrictions on guns out of any country, but they don’t see as many homicides as Brazil. This is because homicides aren’t necessarily directly influenced by gun laws and restrictions, but more by the society around the homicides. If you look just at the GDP per capita of America and Brazil, you’ll see why this is important. America’s GDP per capita is around 80,000 dollars, whereas Brazil’s is just 10,000 dollars. This can heavily influence homicide rates because people have to fight with everything they have just to make it by. This can cause gang involvement and personal disputes, which are some of the biggest players in the cause of homicides. Another thing to look at is gun ownership in each of these countries. America has a crazy 120 guns for every 100 people, which means America has more guns than people. Now, people might think that's why America has so many homicides, but it's not actually true. Again, Brazil has 44,000 homicides each year, and they only have an estimated 1.3-1.5 guns per 100 people. That's almost none. So the real reason why Brazil has so many homicides can’t be because of gun ownership, but it has to be something else. Research done by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, World Bank, and National Institute of Justice says that Poverty and economic inequality, Community Instability, and organized crime are the three main drivers of homicides. If you look at Brazil, you’ll see that they have a high rate of all of these things. America, on the other hand, the country with the most guns, has low levels of the se with outliers like Louisiana and Mississippi, to name a few. If guns were the main cause of homicides, then America would blow all the other countries out of the water for homicide rates.

 

One other thing to consider is illegal gun trafficking. Many people say that illegal guns come into countries with high gun restrictions and laws from countries with low restrictions and laws. While this seems logical,l it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense after you dig into it. If the country has high gun restrictions, ns then they should be able to stop a person or group of people from bringing in guns from less restricted countries. But if it were that easy, then everyone would do it. In reality, criminals and gang members have many connections and ways of getting contrabands into a country,y no matter what. So if a country really wanted to stop illegal gun flow, then it would have to do a lot more than just put in a few restrictions here and there.

 

In conclusion, it is obvious to see that stopping homicides, specifically gun homicides, is a lot more complicated than just instituting more gun laws for the people. Many factors, such as personal disputes among civilians, gang violence and organized crime, and poverty and inequality, are much more driving factors than gun restrictions and gun ownership. These factors influence most of the homicides in today's culture,e and most people aren’t doing much to solve them. All in all, guns being present in today's day and age is not a reason for homicide, but they are a way that someone can commit one. The average civilian would never commit a homicide with a gun. The reason they bought the gun in the first place was for self-defense. Again, raising gun restrictions in the U.S. will not lower the homicide rate.