...Gun control, a problem needing to be solved Gun control is a very real problem in modern America. Mass shootings are heard of quite regularly. Many people are worried about the state of Americas next generation because they are the vast majority of the shooters in America. However, our leaders are undecided on the best course of action to take. Many politicians do not know the best course of action to take when concerned with this very serious matter. Both the left and right wing parties in congress have differing opinions. In the meantime, more people are getting killed my mass shootings every year. “Every day, 89 people die from gun violence… 31 are murdered” (Brady) The United states government needs to take action according to the right-wing politicians plan because this plan is the most effective for solving this problem. Gun control needs to be taken care of quickly at the state and federal...
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...Gun Control in America Gun Control in America has led to many deaths nationwide. Every day we lose thousands of people lives that have been killed by guns. This whole gun control system that we have today in america has not seem to decrease the violence but increase it, since many criminals find a way to get a hold of a firearm. The gun violence we are having is created because of the lack of politics being careless for their people's safety, by the regulations on gun control, and how criminals have access to guns. The law was introduced back in 1934 when the federal government started its gun control policies in order to stop gang violence which was called the National Firearms Act of 1934. Ever since then it has not helped stop the violence and it seems that the issue has grown over the years and it is now a major problem. When the issue really struct the people was when there was school shootings, which really impacts america by making the school safety a failure since criminals enter heavily armed to a school campus.One major school shooting was “two high school teens Eric Harris, 18 and Dylan Klebolod, 17 had killed 13 people and wounded 20 more before commiting suicide on April 20, 1999 at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado” (History.com staff). The crime was...
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...Running Head: WEAPONS UNDER CONTROL Weapons Under Control Barbara Gladden Professor Robinson Contemporary International Problems September 9, 2010 Weapons Under Control Weapons are a major issue facing the world today. Regardless of whether it is arms control or guns control, weapons cause a lot of turmoil and deaths among military wars, children, domestic violence, and mentally disturbed. There should be laws in place to limit weapons or ban them altogether. The world today has a major issue with arms control because a war can really destroy every living thing. So to control weapons we have to find out who has the weapons. Weapons such as, nuclear weapons, biological, chemical, and small arms, we need to control them in order to prevent the weapon problems. The lives of innocent people are continually threatened by war, and responsible governments and concerned citizens must continue to devise ways to combat violence. “ Adopting a policy of doing nothing simply defers the problem to a later date when the level of destruction and the costs of intervening are higher and the risks of action are even greater” (Carnegie Commission of Preventing Deadly Conflict...
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...Gun Control: Deciding Who’s Pulling The Trigger Many tragedies have transpired through the past few years in America, and as Americans we know there are new methods needed on gun control. The main concern consisting of the government restricting the ability of individual citizens to purchase weapons. The different types of gun control vary from waiting periods between when you purchase the gun and when you actually get it, background checks so that high-risk people can't purchase guns through legal channels, and completely banning certain types of guns. Although, there are countless ways for criminals to avoid government regulations, through the “private sales” loophole. This access to firearms has large effect on the crime rate in America and the protection of innocent people. The process of purchasing firearms through black market sales needs to be stiffly regulated to contain less crime. To purchase a gun in the United States of America, can vary because each state has their own laws to abide by. What we can do as one nation is try to regulate the sale of guns through the private loopholes, or illegally. Raising the federal penalty on unlicensed gun sales might make the dealers think twice about the unlawful deeds they are committing. Someone selling a firearm through private sales can, in a way, be an accessory to what the buyer does with that firearm. This brings up a reason why the government has a waiting period for a person to able to purchase a gun. The "waiting period"...
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...Case for Gun Control” “Is freedom Lost on the Next Generation?” Charlton Heston was an American actor in film, theatre and television and a political activist. He had in 2003 written a text in “Guns & Ammo” called “Is Freedom Lost in the Next Generation?” In the text he is presenting the problem about the new generation being brainwashed and the freedom being lost when it comes to the Second Amendment and guns and ammos. Charlton Heston is very much against the future the new generation will be facing. He refer to the high schools in the past, where rifle teams were as common as baseball teams, and he is very much against the elimination of the rifle teams, because they are being regarded as future killers, with that he underpin his contempt with the illustration of little boys running around playing cops and robbers with toy guns. Which also is being targeted with bans. He also refer to a poll taken in June 2000, taken by over a thousands school students were the majority without a doubt was against guns and ammos, and said that all handguns should be registered at purchase. Consequently why Heston calls the new generation brainwashed. He mentions that is of course cant be easy for a fourteen-year-old girl to see through all of the anti-gun images and messages. Heston believe the Second Amendment is the single most essential safeguard against anyone who would take away our liberties or our lives. He believe it is everybody’s duty to sustain the tradition of gun ownership...
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...I've never really been into politics. When I was a kid I liked who my parents liked, hated who my parents hated, and really couldn't have cared less about who won the election. I simply wasn't interested. As an adult I've started paying a little more attention in politics, but not too much. So you shouldn't be surprised to hear that digging up political issues in both America and Japan wasn't as easy as it sounds. Not for me, anyway. I was told to try to pick topics that I know something about, and that led me to the first political issue that both countries face: unemployment. The United States' unemployment rate is, as you probably know, pretty high. In February of 2010, just one month ago, America's unemployment rate was 9.70 percent (TradingEconomics). That's just shy of it's ten-percent unemployment rate a month prior. I was included in that unemployed ten-percent. Having worked for Sprint for a year and a half, my whole branch was outsourced and laid off last June. Getting a new job was nearly impossible, and I found myself surviving on the unemployment benefits provided to me by our government. Before I knew it those benefits ran out, conveniently around Christmas time. And even though I was given a ten week extension thanks to President Obama, I realized that I couldn't live off of those benefits forever. By definition, unemployment is “the percentage or number of people who are involuntarily unemployed” (Dictionary.com). Every major country has it's own unemployment...
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...Gun Control Paper Gun Control has been an issue that has been brought to the public’s eyes in recent years. This main issue has been going on for many years, for example when John F. Kennedy was assassinated; it raised public awareness to the lack of control on sales and also possession of guns in America. Until 1968 guns were available over the counter in stores and through mail catalogs to just about any adult in America. This was an example of how loosely guns were regulated which bring us back to the issue of guns. The constitution tells us in the second amendment that we, as American Citizens, have the right to bear arms. But the government is trying to change that by regulating everything to do with owning a gun. My stance: Gun control is just another way for the government to get into our personal lives. Gun violence is a common thing in America and it needs to be stopped some say. For example, Susan Milligan says this, “Opponents of any kind of gun restrictions argue that they are meaningless, since criminals by definition don't follow the law, and therefore won't allow gun laws to hamstring their criminal behavior. That's true. But gun violence isn't only committed by classic criminals, as recent gun-related tragedies show.” Now she argues that all of gun violence, well the majority, is because of criminals which bring us to background checks. When a person buys a firearm they go through a process of steps to make sure that they are capable of buying a firearm...
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...In America almost all of the information we receive on current events and problems comes from social media. It is an efficient way to transmit information to people, especially in the fast paced world we live in. However, it has become a habit of almost everyone to trust the information presented to us without hesitation or doubt. This is a problem. A large amount of people’s ideas and positions on current events arise from what they hear on TV. Very rarely do people fact check the content on talk shows, late-night segments, or the news. Jimmy Kimmel, a late-night talk show host has addressed many public issues, whether it be for entertaining or grieving purposes. Kimmel was emotionally addressing the gun crisis in America when he panted a misconception in the minds of his viewers. According to the article “Forget Gun Control. America needs Fallacy Control” by Michelle Malkin , Jimmy Kimmel was blaming the “gun show loophole” for the means of criminals obtaining their weapons, when in reality gun show sales are only 1 to 3 percent of all gun purchases and are subject to strict local, state, and federal rules (1). In this situation, Kimmel’s emotions took over or he did not know what he was talking about. Either way, with no one to correct him everyone watching now thinks that criminals are able to get guns through gun shows,...
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...Gun Control Gun control is a hot topic currently, turn the news on and there is something to do with President Obama’s proposed gun control policy or a new shooting that has taken place. Obama’s released his new plan January 2013 for stronger and stricter laws for Americans being able to own guns. It is hard to ignore this topic with the recent shootings taking place, all with people who should not have had access to guns. The question we must ask ourselves is taking our right to bear arms or significantly disable our right to bear arms the correct action to take? Are we going to punish the Americans who obey gun laws or the criminals who will do whatever it takes no matter what laws are in place? It’s no fact that other countries with less gun control have lower crime rates with guns than Americans do. Most importantly we as Americans have the right to protect our self’s. We as Americans have the right to bear arms according to the second amendment, I believe taking that away unconstitutional; this amendment goes back to December 15th 1791 along with the rest of our bill of rights. These amendments are taught to our children on a daily basis across America. The second amendment is to allow Americans the right to possess a firearm and use this law for protection in our homes. Who are the ones completing the massacres, are the guns doing the killings or are the people behind the guns doing the killings? Obama’s newly released control ban will stop assault weapons from being...
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...Running head: FIREARMS IN AMERICA Firearms in America Joyce W. Davis Oklahoma Wesleyan University Abstract The prevalence of guns in the United States and the frequency with which they are commit crimes has made gun control a much discussed and contentious issue. There are an estimated 200 to 250 million firearms in America, and of these, about a third are handguns. According to health researcher, Etienne Krug the homicide rate in the United States is six times higher than that of other developed nations. Though it varies from year to year, according to the FBI, in general guns are in about 70 percent of homicides. In 2000, for example, 52 percent of homicides were committed with handguns, and 19 percent were committed with other guns. The simple fact is that murder and other crimes committed with firearms occur more frequently, where gun control laws are least stringent. Firearms in America There is probably never a time in America history when guns were less popular in the culture. People fed up. Half the households in America are armed. Thirty-eight thousand Americas die from gunshots every year. A recent survey Yankelovich Partners found that 70 percent of Americans favor stricter gun-control laws. Yet, even in the face of lifelong anti-handgun convictions, more women than ever seem to be taking up guns. The Gainesville murder, the Los Angeles riots, the Florida Tourist killings, the California kidnapping and murder of 12-year-old Polly Klaas—every time...
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...United States of America gun control is a controversial issue. From the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 to the Sandy Hook mass shooting in 2012, gun violence has indeed slowed down in America; but not where it is still not a tragedy filled with despair. There has been approximately ninety-two school shootings alone since the tragedy that took place at Sandy Hook Elementary in December (Every Town). Since the adoption of the Second Amendment in 1791, anti-gun control advocates have taken only part of the entire second amendment and rephrased it. "Right to bear arms" is the one and only phrase they will use in order to argue about the right of owning as to how many guns they can own and what they can use them for. With gun violence being a serious issue, the United States has not attempted to make a change in any law regulations to help prevent the massacres and tragedies that occur very regularly in the country. The United States should compose stricter gun control in order to save the citizens. The United States will indeed still have its problems, but one step at a time is progress for a better country. The Second Amendment states, “A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a Free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.” Thousands of citizens use the Second Amendment to protect against a possible tyrannical government; therefore having a right for guns to protect the people. Anti-gun control advocates also...
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...to be a better year than 2015. But overall nothing has changed, the number of deaths in america each year is an average of 400,000 people from gun violence. Clearly nothing is being done, and if it is it isn’t enough, whatever their plan was to stop the gun violence it didn’t work and it’s not going to work. Whoever is in charge of gun control needs to be terminated, maybe Trump might be a new answer to this issue. Gun control is the set of laws or politics that regulate the manufacture, sale, transfer, possession, modification, or use of firearms...
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...Gun are one of the top items bought in stores that are easily accessible, but little do the people know is that most of the time guns are used on people to create a crime, other than protection. Maybe the best idea to keep this problem from going on is make gun laws stricter make it to where you need to pass a test to register for a gun, or maybe better yet stop supplying so many guns at one time. Gun laws are something every country needs in order to keep stable economy, because selling guns to easily will help the american citizens commit crimes that could ruin many people lives. About 96 lives are lost per year just from shootings that occur from buying guns easily or illegally that can be stopped because the government can make the process more difficult and crack down on the dark part of the internet where you can also order guns illegally without having to go through the little process the U.S. has of now. On average about 220 million guns are purchased every year because the easy process that has been...
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...emotional film about the severe gun violence in the United States of America, and what causes this extreme violence. Michael Moore, the film maker, continually tries to convince viewers that if guns were more difficult to find, there will be a dramatic decrease in gun violence. Michael Moore uses specific video clips to appeal to the viewer’s emotions on guns. Through this use of pathos, Michael Moore is able to describe how dangerous it can be when teenagers or young irresponsible adults get control of a loaded gun. Although Michael Moore is completely biased against gun control, his documentary affected the way I think about guns and gun control. Michael Moore uses clips such as, 911 phone calls and security camera footage to make a personal, emotional connection to all the viewers watching. In one specific incident he spoke to the producer of COPS. In this interview we, the audience, learn that the producer prefers to portray blacks as the criminals so that the whites can get guns to protect themselves. In my opinion, this is a reason why gun violence is so prevalent in America - the fear of African Americans. Moreover, Michael Moore speaks with the students of the Columbine incidents to discuss mental health issues. These interviews reveal that the high incidence of a variety of mental problems among young people coupled with the prevalence of guns in the country, makes gun violence a very real and pervasive problem in the United States. Therefore...
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...Gun Control in America When I was in the military I had the opportunity to travel to many different countries in the world where gun control was either limited or fully enforced. In countries like Great Britain, which has strict gun control, the country has a very high miscellaneous crime rate due to even the law enforcement not carrying side arms (Kelley, 2012). Then countries like Switzerland where their gun laws are minimal, and their crimes are very low and they have access to guns (LaFollette, 2000). These countries with guns may have gun violence, but countries without guns tend to have more heinous crimes using other things as weapons (LaFollette, 2000). I have been around this world and I feel as Americans we don’t need gun control. Even though some Americans believe guns kill people and should be banned, I am completely against gun control, because it violates our Second Amendment Right, and guns also protect us and our families from intruders and individuals trying to commit a crime. Americans in today’s society want gun control to prevent foolish people and ones not all there in the head from owning guns. LaFollette (2000), thought that even though guns don’t kill people, people kill people so we should have gun control to stop these individuals from getting firearms. Such lunatics that have shot up schools like Columbine, Sandy Hook, and most recent the kid that shot up that church Charleston, SC. LaFollette (2000), said,” Availability of guns is also positively...
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