Ben Harakel
Intro to Economics
Gun Control and Its Effects
Gun Control Kills Jobs
I think it would be very safe to say that if a business has succeeded in the recession that America has endured, it was doing something right. If I invested $100 dollars in Strum and Ruger Company in 2007, I would currently have over $530 dollars in my pocket. If that isn't successful I don't know what is. Ruger had, and has, orders for twice as many guns as it can manufacture but yet in those six years in only added 10 employees. Why? Well with all the tightening down on guns and their purchase Ruger couldn't add jobs without fearing another law which would drop sales and force layoffs (It is nice to hear that a company cares about their employees anymore). Colt Manufacturing has came up with another plan to keep the sales up, moving out of Connecticut and other liberal states. They are moving part of their manufacturing processes down to Florida in the coming years so that they can sell their products from the base as well.
Personally I think it makes a great deal of sense especially for the states themselves to entice gun manufacturers to set up shop. It helps reduce the unemployment in the area and also helps provide more revenue from taxes. It seems that states with more republican governors and congressmen are much more open about wanting gun manufacturing plants than those with more democratic governors and congressman. This does seem to hold up in the few examples that I have read but yet the logic behind the wanting tougher gun laws baffles me. It goes back to the classic saying "Guns don't kill people, people kill people." and in my mind banning guns doesn't stop the violence and as proven it certainly doesn't help the economy.
I think data shows that banning guns hurts the economy. I agree with that. I think the gun reformists believe that the "lives lost" due to guns outweigh the economic impacts. If they say that gun reform wouldn't hurt jobs and the economy I don't know what to say really. I think thats obvious. I just think that the lives lost "because of guns" are their basis for an argument. To deny negative economic impact is, in my opinion, ignorant. I'm sure someone will have a nice set of statistics to prove me wrong, but let's be honest there are plenty of statistics that prove its damaging characteristics.
ReplyDeleteGun control is such a controversial subject, and each side is always going to be criticized. In this case, it would be foolish to ignore the economic implications that gun control has. Without going into a huge rant about this topic, I believe it is absolutely ignorant to believe or say that the existence and presence of guns causes the world's violent issues. Guns don't hurt people, people hurt people, and it's time that more people understood that. If gun control continues to strengthen, the economic implications will only get worse, and if more people understood that, maybe they would not be so quick to blame guns on every issue just because of the occasional problem.
ReplyDeleteThe gun market if ever growing and it will only get stronger. I'm not too crazy about the topic but I can definitely say that guns do not cause violence in this nation. Violence is caused by psychological freaks (2 true) who believe that they can get whatever they want if they can hold someone at gunpoint. Gun manufacturers employ a large amount of people to help make good products and taking that away would just cause more problems .
ReplyDeleteIt is true that gun control kills jobs. We don't know where we stand in this subject. Guns are weapons that have no souls. If there's any problem about people dying from getting shot, the problem lies on the gun users. The guns themselves are just being used for killing purposes.
ReplyDeleteI have mixed feelings on gun control to be honest. I do agree with "guns don't kill people, people do". This being said we need to do better with preventing guns from getting into the wrong hands. I see the point about having gone control kills jobs however the point of gun control is safety and I think the sacrifice of a few jobs is worth it. As far as a business move though it was smart to make the move because the company will do better.
ReplyDeleteWhile, yes, gun control laws kill the jobs of those in the gun industry, the same can be said about drug laws and prostitution. There is absolutely no question that jobs would be created if we made every drug legal, but does that make it acceptable? The same thing goes for the prostitution example. While, yes, tightening of gun regulations would have an economic effect, I don't feel like it is justification enough for us to continue letting the egregious amounts of gun violence in our country occur.
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