Resolved: In the United States, private ownership of handguns ought to be banned
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Hayden 14Federal law’s insufficient on toy gun regulation—loopholes.Hayden 14 Jen “The real danger of toy guns” 7-11-14 Daily Kos http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/7/11/1313296/-The-real-danger-of-toy-guns JW Federal law requires that these airsoft guns and other realistic-looking toy guns feature a blaze-orange marking, at least 6 millimeters in length, permanently affixed to the exterior surface of the barrel. The same law does not make it illegal to remove or alter that orange tip, meaning those who buy these guns and wish for a more realistic look can paint that orange tip, cover it with tape or simply remove it. The editorial board rightly concluded that more needs to be done to prevent tragic situations like those listed: We would urge lawmakers to take a careful look at this situation. Randolph 15Imitation toy guns cause violent crime.Randolph 15 Eleanor “Toy Guns Can Be Dangerous, for Real” NY Times 8-3-15 http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/08/03/toy-guns-can-be-dangerous-for-real/ JW A toy gun is supposed to look like a toy — not a gun. In New York, it cannot be black, blue or silver. It should have bright neon colors in New York City, and a strip of orange around the barrel in the state. That’s the law. Yet, the office of New York’s Attorney General Eric Schneiderman found that retailers had sold more than 6,400 toy guns to New York families in the last three years that looked all too real. If you have not seen what some businesses sell as a fake weapon, look up “toy gun” on the Internet. These are not see-through plastic water pistols. They are replicas of assault rifles, shotguns and handguns that could fool all but a gun expert, especially at a distance. The toy gun problem become national issue after Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old who was carrying a toy gun in a local park, was shot and killed last November by Cleveland police who mistook the toy for a real weapon. Mr. Schneiderman’s team found that over the last two decades in New York, there have been hundreds of crimes committed with fake weapons and 63 shootings “as a result of someone holding a toy or imitation weapon.” Eight of those encounters were fatal. On Monday, Mr. Schneiderman announced an agreement with five major retailers — Walmart, Kmart, Amazon.com, Sears and ACTA, a California-based company that operates toy websites — to stop sales of these imitation guns and pay more than $300,000 in fines. This is good start. Mr. Schneiderman has also said that his office will continue to monitor stores and websites that fail to ban sales of imitation weapons to New Yorkers. Other states, including California, are also working to restrict sales of fake guns, which can be hazardous, especially to the person holding them. Fisher 14Toy gun are reflective of our culture of violence and hypermasculinity.Fisher 14 Marc (senior editor at WashPost) “Bang: The troubled legacy of toy guns” Washington Post 12-22-14 https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/bang-the-troubled-legacy-of-toy-guns/2014/12/22/96494ea8-86f8-11e4-9534-f79a23c40e6c_story.html JW The basic sales pitch for toy guns — an appeal aimed especially at fathers who have their own rich memories of play-shooting — has remained unchanged for a century: “Toy guns were a rite of passage for boys to become men,” says Cross, the Penn State historian. “For many years, that was something admirable. But these days, it suggests a quality of violence or aggression that people are very uncomfortable with, especially as we have idolized the idea that children are cute and innocent.” Toy guns still sell by the millions, although Murfin says Daisy’s sales “aren’t what they once were” in urban and suburban America. In rural areas, he says, “there’s still good growth.” Toy and BB gun sales are “a red-state phenomenon now,” says Cross, who sees a simultaneous decline in hunting culture and in “these old concepts of masculinity.” Gottlieb, the toy consultant, looks at the persistence of toy guns’ popularity around the globe and concludes that “all kids have basic needs to act out their fears of adulthood. For girls, it’s sexuality and social interaction. For boys, it’s death and dying. These are essential play patterns. They’re going to be acted out somewhere because the thought of going to war and getting killed is scary. A lot of this has moved to first-person shooter video games because toy guns have become taboo and play has moved indoors. But as a culture, we still want to shoot.” lawyers.comThe plan is a ban-we have a solvency advocate that uses the term of art.lawyers.com “New York Targets Illegal Sales of Toy Guns” http://criminal.lawyers.com/criminal-law-basics/new-york-targets-illegal-sales-of-toy-guns.html To help prevent the dangers posed by toy guns, federal law requires fake guns to be transparent, brightly colored, or have a bright orange tip at the end of the barrel. New York state law goes further to ban toy guns that are black, blue, silver, or aluminum, and toy firearms must have bright orange stripes that run up both sides of the barrel. Stokes 16Smartguns suck-they get jailbroken, decrease reliability, and won’t get purchased.Stokes 16 Jon “Will smart guns make us less safe?” 1-17-16 LA Times http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0117-stokes-smart-gun-problems-20160117-story.html# JW The bad news for anyone looking to the smart gun as a technological quick fix for gun violence is that, absent a government mandate requiring all guns to be “smart,” a robust market is unlikely to materialize. And even if new laws were to require that all new firearms include smart gun tech, many proposed smart systems would actually make us less safe. The primary objection that American gun buyers have to smart guns is that any integrated electronic locking mechanism will necessarily decrease a gun's reliability by introducing more points of failure. Smart gun proponents are quick to dismiss these concerns as overblown, but they don't seem to understand how all-important reliability is to gun buyers, or how difficult it is for even premium gun makers to mass-produce weapons that will function smoothly under the most adverse conditions. Every gun owner who has put enough rounds down range has had his favorite firearm fail to go "bang" when he pulled the trigger. Every gun owner who has put enough rounds down range has had his favorite firearm fail to go “bang” when he pulled the trigger. These failures can happen to the very best semiautomatic weapons in the final round of a competition, in the heat of battle, or when a trophy buck is in the hunter's sights. Weapon malfunctions are such a widely acknowledged reality that basic training courses typically explain how to rapidly troubleshoot such failures during a gunfight. Gun owners are terrified of anything that might make their guns less reliable. And when they consider the frequency with which their $700 smart phone's fingerprint scanner fails when presented with a clean, dry, perfectly-positioned thumb, they rightly conclude that putting any type of electronic lock on their Glock will likely make them less secure, not more. For the sake of argument, however, let's say that the reliability objection to smart gun technology has been definitively addressed, and that there exists an electronically lockable gun that's practically flying off the shelves. Such technology would not dependably stop unauthorized users from firing stolen weapons, for the simple fact that every piece of locked-down consumer technology that has ever been introduced — from the DRM schemes that encrypt Blu-ray disks to the software locks intended to keep users from installing illicit software on their iPhones — has been “jailbroken” and can be defeated by anyone with a little time and access to YouTube. As impossible as sealed electronic gadgets are to secure against tampering, guns are even more hopeless, because firearms are mechanical devices that are designed to be disassembled for regular cleaning and repair. Once a gun has been broken down, any component that prevents it from firing can be filed off, taped over, replaced, or otherwise circumvented. Smith & Wesson users, for instance, routinely remove the integrated mechanical locks that the Clinton administration convinced the gunmaker to add to its popular family of revolvers. Smart gun technology can and will be jailbroken — but that isn't even the worst consequence of this particular “safety” trend. The bigger problem lies with smart guns that are designed to connect to another device, either to obtain permission to fire or to alert authorized users to the gun's location. Technology companies warn that if they create a “back door” in their encryption products for government agents, they're also creating a possible “back door” for criminals. Just so, any capability we give authorized gun users can and will be exploited by unauthorized users. Directory: file -> view view -> Western Europe after wwii view -> Author study: paul fleischman view -> Qpa1 7ela study Guide view -> Arctic Oil/Gas Neg view -> November 1970 Approximately 150,000-500,000 deaths Bhola Cyclone Bangladesh view -> Grade Level: 6 Unit of Study: Caribbean glce view -> Citation: Duffield, Katy view -> Table of Contents Lesson # view -> Chinese Wind Energy Disad Download 0.99 Mb. Share with your friends:
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