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1. Do you have a gun? ___ Yes ___ No

2. Do any of your friends have guns? ___ Yes ___ No

3. Does anyone in your family have a gun? ___ Yes ___ No

4. Have you ever used a gun? ___ Yes ___ No

5. If you lived in a city, would you get a gun?

___ Yes ___ No

6. Some people have said that if more people had a gun, that would reduce the crime rate. Do you agree with them?
___ Yes ___ No

7. Do you feel the crime rate goes UP when the number of guns goes up?

___ Yes ___ No

8. How many Americans would you guess own guns?

___ 100% ___ 60-69% ___ 20-29%
___ 90-99% ___ 50-59% ___ 10-19%
___ 80-89% ___ 40-49% ___ 0-9%
___ 70-79% ___ 30-39%

9. There are about 300 million Americans. How many guns do you think there are?

___ >300 million ___ 150-200 million
___ 250-300 million ___ 100-150 million
___ 200-250 million ___ 50-100 million
___ 0-50 million

10. Which states do you think have the highest percentage of gun ownership? (Name 1-3)


11. Which states do you think have the highest violent crime rate?
(Name 1-3)

An interview with John R. Lott, Jr. author of more guns, less crime.

An interview with John R. Lott, Jr. author of more guns, less crime.

In this article “An interview with John R. Lott, Jr. author of more guns, less crime: understanding crime and gun control laws. “ from The University of Chicago Press. This author mentions that John R. Lott, JR who agrees people have guns recommend handguns laws. That is every one have to have handguns. He suggests that if every one has handguns, people could not try to crimes because every one has guns. Also he mentions the laws make less crimes especially the crime, which is target of women. In addition he mentions some people use guns for crimes but most people use the guns for private security. Finally, he said if you disagree about his book read the book carefully.


I am interested in this article but I disagree his opinion. Every one has guns but can you use the guns suddenly?? Crimes are mostly suddenly happens so people have to practice using guns. Also, if nobody has guns that much better than every one have handguns because, guns are one of the high capable of killing tools so it might make crimes. I from Japan I had never see real guns in my hometown. No guns society reduce crime rate. This is a graph which show victims population rate of crimes from Honkawa Data Tribune. Therefore I think U.S. should make law that put using guns under a ban. United state can make smoking ban, they also can stop to use guns.


by Hiro

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