Gun Control Statistics & Reasoning

In the United States of America, the number of households with a gun was 47,600,000, which means in 1994 49% of households had a gun. The number of adults owning a gun in 1994 was 59,100,000. So out of all the adults living in the United States 31% of them were gun owners. The National Rifle Association is the biggest gun rights lobbying organization in the United States. To show this, in 1998, their political action committee gave a whopping $1,330,111 to the Republicans and another $285,700 to the Democrats. Handgun Control Incorporated has the exact opposite view on United States gun situation. Hangun Control Incorporated is also the largest lobbying organization in the United States but instead of gun rights they're for gun control. In 1998, their political action committee also gave money contributing $136,892 to the Democats and $9,500 the Republicans. I believe that the National Rifle Association is working very hard to get our laws changed because they contributed way more money. I believe that Handgun Control Incorporated doesn't have to give that much money because what they're pushing for is already in affect. In the United States in 1997, there were 15,289 murders alone. 10,369 of which were committed with firearms. Also in 1997 there were an inaccurate count of 7,927,000 violent crimes. Of these crimes 691,000 were committed using a firearm. Leading up to 1992, for every 14 committed violent crime, only one person was sentenced to prison. Also leading up to 1992, the average length of inprisonment for murder was 10 years, for rape it was 7.6 years, and for aggravated Assault it was 3.4 years.

By Gerard Bennett