Annotated Bibliography

The American Dream: The Change Needed in Gun Control
Thesis statement: Due mass shootings beginning to rise and become more frequent than before, society should act and create awareness to prevent more from happening.
Gary, Kleck, et. al. “Does Gun Control Reduce Violent Crime?” Criminal Justice Review (Sage
Publications), vol. 41, no. 4, 2016, pp. 488-513.
Kleck Gary, along with other members of the article, conducted an experiment in which they checked different cities in the United States to see if gun control does reduce violent crime. In this research, they discovered that these gun control laws that the state has put show no difference of crimes in the past years. The studied different cities by their population, comparing the amount of crimes in small cities to the amount of crimes in large cities. They did, however, noted small effects of the laws, such as the ban of purchases of guns by alcoholics and the requirement of a license.
This article is needed to show the different arguments when it comes to the topic of gun laws, and this article proves the side that there is a problem with gun control laws. Most of the article consists of variables used to understand the research they were conducting, the theory they had, and more of their knowledge to this problem, which is not needed for my paper. This could help keep a balance argument to the paper, but I will be using the next article to prove that there needs to be more laws.
Gius, Mark. “Gun Law and Crime.” Significance, vol. 11, no. 2, 2014, pp. 6-8.
This article gives a more background knowledge to all the mass shootings that has passed by in American history. It tells the story of each shootings, from Columbine to Sandy Hook, and shows the process of how all this happened. It also gives a reason to why all of these have happened, showing the history of America as well as the culture it creates. Gius also examines the affects that all these bans on the most lethal weapons has on the crime rate.
This is useful to help understand why these mass shootings have happened in America. It also gives a more background to the culture that America lives by, to which might spark the mass shootings from the very beginning, and could be used to help understand the culture of America. There are some things that are not needed, such as the variables he uses, and the amount of data. He does although stay unbiased throughout the article, which is great when it comes to historical background information.
Ratliff, Bradley C. “The Second Amendment: An Analysis of Interpretations.” Appalachian
Journal of Law, vol. 15, no. 1, 2016, pp. 83-97.
                        This article gives a more background to the amendment that creates all of the laws and is used in all of the cases that consists of guns: the second amendment. Throughout the article, it discusses the history of the amendment, the process of creating this amendment that would live on for many generations. It also gives many interpretations to the amendment which leads to how the laws were made. There are many instances in the article where they explain how this amendment connects to all the mass shootings happening specifically in the United States.
                        This is going to be perfect for the history part of my research paper, which explains the background of the topic which is gun control. I believe that all this article is going to fit right in with the first body paragraph, since the second amendment is important and is used in all of the debates that surrounds guns. This is also helpful to help those that do not fully understand the amendment and the meaning behind it. It also gives a start to the whole research paper.
 Vernick, Jon, et. al. “Background Checks for All Gun Buyers and Gun Violence Restraining
Orders: State Efforts to Keep Guns from High-Risk Persons.” The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, vol. 45, no. 1, 2017, pp. 98-102.
Jon Vernick created this article to bring awareness to the possible flaws of gun purchasing process in America. He gives background information on the laws behind the screening process and online purchasing. Vernick argues that there needs to be legal action to prevent any more gun violence from ever happening. By doing this, he brings up examples of laws passed that prevents anyone with a high risk of disturbing the peace, which has evidently worked as stated in his research.

This work is great for arguing against the gun laws that protect these guns purchasing problems. There are specific parts that I could use for the paper, such as the law/program that was used to help stop high risk people from obtaining a weapon. Most of the article consists of background history of gun purchasing, which could help my paper to better understand what is the screening process. This is a great article to use for my own side, which also has counter arguments for the other side. 

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