Introduction
It has been found that there are many short and long term affects of victimization especially in relation to free usage of firearms. There are many short and long term affects of victimization especially in relation to adolescence.
Main body
In today’s perspective, an individual carries many different emotional and physical responses to sociological and economical stress and these stresses can be affected by violence and probable chance of violence. There is a constant paranoia of fear psychosis acting on the resident of an economically and sociologically developed society due to different stress. This paranoia of fear psychosis is instigated to become violent once the subject is armed with a firearm.
It is easy to deem this as a trigger-happy syndrome but the fact remains to be very volatile and fearful. The statistics that have been formulated concerning continuations of violence and the sources of the violent behavior have become staggering. In November 1998, a Japanese student new in California was shot dead when he tried to find a specific address from a middle-aged resident at the middle of the night due to miscommunication and language problem. (Schmalleger, 2005)
Such examples are abundant and this is the reason it is necessary to look into the matter of gun control policy. Furthermore, experts amidst researchers and policymakers should managed considerable thought toward understanding how short and long term influences of abuse, including drugs, alcohol, and other substance abuse along with mental health stress. The understanding of immediate affects abuse would have, how it relates to voluntary behaviors. The main objective of the argumentative system is instrumental in helping out the policymakers and enables them to lead a normal logical conclusion on the subject of gun control policy and life within the main stream of the society.
Michael Moore (Bowling for Columbine) reflects the same in the documentary in 2002. He points out that the Columbine High School massacre and related acts due to lack of gun control. He explores the issue with the basic concept of the menace of private gun ownerships and even backs it up a montage of gun related incidents during the song Happiness Is a Warm Gun. (Moore, 2002) The practical affect of private gun ownership was visible during the Dunblane School Gym Massacre.
This shooting caused the death of teachers and 16 children between five and six year olds. (BBC News, 1996) On the other hand, Switzerland has a ratio of 1:3 private gun ownership with population (BBC News, 2001) but the basic framework of the society is not volatile. This enables the violence to be checked in the social parameter. However, Switzerland should be taken as an exception and as it is stated, ‘exception proves the rule’. Thus, private gun ownerships should be banned.
It is true that there are many anticrime initiatives in the United States, some of which fit the social responsibility approach and others the social problems approach. Those designed to fit the social responsibility perspective include the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, the Patriot Act, gun control legislation, and the three strikes legislation. The passing of each of these has supported the social responsibility approach by placing harsher penalties in regards to jail time and fines for criminals violating these laws.
Social responsibility believes that each individual makes a conscious choice whether to commit a crime, and by imposing harsher penalties, you are punishing those who made a bad choice as an individual, when they could have chose otherwise. It is believed that the adolescents suffering from victimization goes through a huge psychological defoliation therefore it is important to address this case and the ultimate affect when some of them get free access to firearms. Thus, it is much logical to ban gun ownership so that the resource of committing the crime is eradicated. (Schmalleger, 2005)
However, Kaplan argues that it is not possible to assume that each person would follow the proper enactment and rules of the law. Under such circumstances, it would require more wisdom to support free usage of firearms. Thus, the author openly supports in favor of gun control. The author believes that experts amidst researchers and policymakers should managed considerable thought toward understanding how short and long term influences of abuse, including drugs, alcohol, and other substance abuse along with mental health stress.
The understanding of immediate affects abuse would have, how it relates to voluntary behaviors. The main objective of such text would be instrumental to develop a form of argumentative system that would be instrumental in helping out the policymakers and enable them to lead a normal logical conclusion on the subject of gun control policy and life within the main stream of the society. (Kalpan, 1981)
Conclusion
It should be mentioned that there would always a segment of the population who would surely argue that the US Government should allow US citizen own guns and continue with the existing policy about firearms because regulation of firearms would certainly mean an attack on free will of the population. Furthermore, there would be arguments that ownership of firearm is a guarantee of self-defense and there should be no policy that would revoke that right.
Lastly, there would sill be a population that would believe that enquiring into such individual and social context while interviewing would result in violation of privacy. However, apart from these, as per as Ethical issues are concerned there should not be any because the argument is targeted towards the greater good of the society and thus it is justified to ban private gun ownership.
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BBC News; 1996; Massacre in Dunblane School Gym. Web.
Kaplan, John; 1981; The Wisdom of Gun Prohibition; Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 455, Gun Control, pp. 11-23; Sage Publications, Inc. in association with the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Web.
Moore, Michael; 2002; Bowling for Columbine; United States: MGM Distribution Co.
Schmalleger, Frank; 2005; Criminology Today: An Integrative Introduction; Fourth Edition; New Jersey: Prentice Hall.