Download Reflection on Firearms and How they are Viewed about by Law Makers | SOC 2600 and more Assignments Criminal Justice in PDF only on Docsity! Patrick Morefield October 18, 2006 Sociology 2600 The article that I have chose to be a concern for me is an article about firearms and how they are viewed about by law makers. The article is entitled “Reflections on Firearms and the Criminal Law” by Franklin E. Zimring and it was published in The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Vol. 86, No 1, in autumn 1995. Firearms are a tool by which many Americans use to find food for themselves and their families. Some of these individuals will use a firearm to go out and kill an animal to feed themselves while others will use a firearm to go out and rob someone or, in worse cases, kill someone for profit. Either way it is still a tool used to survive. Most of the earlier articles that are about of firearms are ones that are either people for having firearms or against firearms this one is asking the question why “Firearms and firearms control have never been an important issue in criminal law scholarship.” (Zimring, 1995, p.1). The author analyzed and collected data from journal articles, commissions that were put together by the United States government, a report from the World Health Organization and he also looked at the Uniform Crime Report compiled by the FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice. The author went through many of the Uniform Crime Reports from as early as 1964. He also went to and article entitled A Rationale of the Law of Homicide dating back all the way from 1937. The article that I read did not really reveal new information to me. I already knew that firearm control has not really been much of a concern to lawmakers and that we are not looking to make it a real big issue either. Lawmakers are just looking to do away with the crimes in which people use the firearms to commit. The author concluded that “There are effective and ineffective strategies for firearms control just as there are good and bad penal laws governing
