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Response To Wilson's "Just Take Away Their Guns" - Research Paper

Response To Wilson's "Just Take Away Their Guns"

Gun control is a subject that is being debated and will continue to
be debated for years to come. There are many different views of what
causes crime. Some say crimes caused by guns and others say that it is the
people behind the guns. In James Q. Wilson's essay entitled “Just Take
Away Their Guns”, he tries to propose some solutions that would solve the
gun control debate. Of course, every plan of action is going to have it's
drawbacks, and Wilson's has some major ones.. Wilson's plan to train
police officers to be able to spot would be gun carriers more easily,
arming the police with hi-tech weapon detectors, , and letting the police
keep the authority to “pat down” people ...

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a gun. What criteria should be used to
determine if someone looks like when they are carrying a gun? Do they put
on baggy pants with a do-rag before they put the gun in their pants or
pocket? As of right now, there is not one, and never will be one. I know
many people that carry guns that probably would be stopped because of the
way they look. They look like your everyday, average American teenager. I
doubt very seriously that a police officer, even with rigorous training,
could pick someone out of a crowd that was carrying a gun.
If police forces employed this tactic, how would they stop the
constant harassment to one person? If police do find guns on a person that
looks a certain way, do you stop everyone that looks like that? I do not
think so. If they did that, then they would have certain groups getting
stopped all of the time. Imagine someone walking down the street with some
of their friends and you get stopped four times in two miles of walking?
How would that ...

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Added: 2/27/2007 02:40:54 AM
Category: Government
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 628
Pages: 3

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