Julio Chavez

Professor Kendra Vanderlip

ENGL 1320.002

3 February 3, 2020

Annotated Bibliography

Zimring, Frank. “Is Gun Control Likely to Reduce Violent Killings?” The University of Chicago Law Review,
vol. 35, no. 4, 1968, pp. 721–737. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1598883. Accessed 3 Feb. 2020.

The article states that “If all homicides resulted from such a single-minded intention to kill as
gangland killings, laws prohibiting firearms would not have substance in the people.” This is
saying that people wanting to kill like really wanting to kill, they would find another way to do it
if a gun was not accessible. The article also states that “if he wished to wound or injure, with
some apprehension of the risk of death or some desire to kill, he will kill at all cost.” The article
stands out to me for its blunt numbers and the controversial vibes that it gives off playing
around with such dangerous thoughts. The article doesn’t only focus on Texas, but rather the
United States as a whole. It shows who is most likely to kill someone based off member of the
family, and the most common reasons being money and drugs. In Chicago, most victims of
homicides was a result of an altercation, it being domestic, money or liquor. The book also gives
us the most amount of information about the weapon in question, the most popular being
knives and guns. I would like to use this article in order to detail my argument for gun
regulation. The article gives me more insight and statistics about the gun problem and how the
community is actually affected based on numbers. It shows people will stop at nothing in order
to kill someone for some reason. [251 Words]

Lambert, Michael T., and Peter S. Silva. “An Update on the Impact of Gun Control Legislation on Suicide.”
Psychiatric Quarterly, vol. 69, no. 2, 1998, pp. 127–134., doi:10.1023/a:1024714619938.

The journal goes over the issue of guns, but on the side of suicides. The author examines the
impact of gun control in legislation, and suicide rates linked to the possession of a firearm. The
author also went over his sources, which were popular gun and medical research journals
talking about deaths within their care that were cause by guns. From what the author has
gathered in his research, suicide rates typically decreased following implementation of a variety
of firearm control laws. People who are prone to suicide rarely substitute other ways or go
length to obtain a weapon illegally. Firearm restrictions may decrease the accessibility of
firearms enough in order to allow the peak of someone’s suicidal thoughts to pass, and thus
saving a life from being ended so abruptly. The findings support gun control measures as a
strategy for reducing suicide rates. He goes through and tells us very good things about the
diminishing rate of suicides when firearms aren’t readily available to the troubled individual,
that it gives them time to reflect on what they’re facing instead of just an end with no
conclusion. I would like to use this article in order to demonstrate and show the benefits of not
having any firearms present within someone going through life-altering turmoil, and that
temporarily taking the gun away has proved to be effective in combatting this. [245]