... Student: Valeriya Zakreski Violence is a physical action to injure people or property. We can read a lot of information and watch news about violence. We can say that violence is a part of our life and he human condition. But the worst fact that today, our children are involved to this part of human condition. From child abuse to murder, to school-yard bullying, violence takes its toll, often with children being the innocent. But what can cause the violence between the children? Today we can hear a lot of information about it, as: toy guns and video games affect on the children’s health and behavior, violent homes lead children to the crime. “More than 1,000 studies on the effects of television and film violence have been done over the past 40 years. The majority of these studies reach the same conclusion: television and film violence leads to real-world violence. By age 18 an American child will have seen 16,000 simulated murders and 200,000 acts of violence.” Senator Orrin G. Hatch, Utah, Chairman Committee on the Judiciary. September 14,1999. Children, Violence, And the Media. A report for Parents and Policy Makers (http://ratemyschoolboard.wordpress.com/2013/01/30/children-violence-and-the-media/) The idea about that video games and movies can affect people is not confirmed; however, children’s behavior can be changed by introducing in their life the violent toys, video games, violent environment. All arguments are around the gun toys. For example, Daniel Stauber...
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...Gun Control is when you keep firearms plus guns away from people. Many people think that gun control is right because they think keeping people away from guns will reduce the amount of deaths each year. They also think that guns cause many of the deaths that had been committed each year. Also when ever people hear the word gun, the thoughts are of violence and negativity. Many people, myself included think gun control is wrong because we know that it is not necessary, since we know that guns were not involved in many of the deaths caused each year. While many other people disagree and think it is good because of the safety for people. In this essay I will tell you why gun control is unnecessary and why there shouldn?t be any gun control at all. There have been many gun control laws established throughout the U.S., but they vary from state to state. For example, in Colorado you can purchase any type of gun: handgun, machine gun, shotgun, rifle, automatic rifle, etc. at the age of 18, while in other places you would need a hunting license.1 I think this is unfair because when I?m at the age of 18 I would want to buy a gun, but I can?t because I?m living in California and another 18 year old could in Colorado. Also, another example is that in some states, they allow citizens to carry concealed weapons, while in other states citizens can?t. I don?t think this is fair at all because I think they should make laws that suits the whole U.S., and not make different laws in different...
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...children are hurt from guns every day, in which twelve children are injured and seven children are killed. These are only just children. Imagine how many people become victims of gun violence every day. There is a lot of debate between whether or not more laws should be passed to control the ownership and manufacturing of guns in the United States. Can gun control laws reduce the amount of gun violence? The clear answer is yes. First, the suicide rate will lower if we enact more gun control laws. Next, making people undergo background checks before owning a gun will help reduce the risk of a firearm ending up in the hands of a criminal or a mentally ill person. Third, there will be more gun deaths if it is easier to obtain a...
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...Gun control. A big topic in politics. People put down guns all the time all others totally uplift it. Is it tremendously bad, is it totally good, does it need balance? The Second Amendment says, "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.” As the law says, we must have a well regulated militia to defend our freedoms. I believe a fair system of owning guns should be implemented, through fair regulations. Why are guns and the control of them such a big topic in today’s politics? One-third of Americans own or have someone in their home whom owns a gun. Many people love and care for their guns and their right to have them, which is the Second...
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...reduce gun violence "In the 1960's, there was one school shooting. In the 1980's, there were 27. In the 1990's, there were 58. In the past decade, there have been over 120" (Hoehn). The last 18 years have been experienced by too many shootings. We must take action to help stop gun violence. In furtherance of reducing gun violence, we must handle the problem of easy access to guns and address men's mental health. One way to reduce gun violence is to regulate the easy access to guns. In the article," How to Reduce Shootings", by Nicolas Kristoff in The New York Times Kristoff claims how automobiles could kill as many people as guns but they don't because we regulate them and limit easy access to automobiles. "We don't ban cars, but we work hard to regulate them - and limit access to them – so as to reduce the death toll they cause. This has been spectacularly successful, reducing the death rate per 100 million miles driven by 95 percent since 1921" (Kristoff). Regulations that could be added before accessing guns to help reduce gun violence are banning people under 21 to purchase firearms, background checks, and banning bump stocks. Cars have been regulated greatly since 1921 and the death toll has gone down to 95 percent for every 100 million miles driven, if we regulate guns the way we do with cars the death toll could also go down greatly and we wouldn't have to worry about these shootings happening. Additionally, we can also have tighter gun laws to help reduce gun violence...
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...Gun Control In America As most people know Barack Obama and many political officials are working on laws that prevent people from having the right to own a firearm. The reason I want to talk about this topic is because I do not feel the same way as others about the gun control laws. I believe that American citizens should have the right to own a firearm due to the crime that we have in America. Although weapons are not always the right choice many people feel the need to have a gun in their homes for their own protection. At the same time I believe that we should all have the write to bare arms, I also believe that there should be a well controlled process in order to keep weapons out of the hands of those that are unstable or criminals and who would use these weapons on the people as a whole to cause undo danger and inflict harm. It is never a good start to your day to turn on the TV or radio only to discover that there has been another school shooting were innocent children have been targeted. Turn on the nightly news; you are sure to hear about home invasions, carjacking and stores being robbed. For those of us who work hard to get where we are and are upstanding citizens, we should have the right to protect our selves from those who believe that they are better than the average person and that they are owed something. I believe that guns in the hands of properly trained individuals would drastically reduce the violence inflicted on unsuspecting citizens...
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...and falling to the ground praying the shower of bullets end. Praying everyone is okay only to realize that yet another loved is gone do to a bullet to the chest. Gun violence over the past years, seems as though it is becoming a bigger and bigger problem around the world. The shootings happening in a community to mass shootings taking place everywhere. It even seems to be a growing problem in our community in Battle Creek or it could be, as you get older, you realize that the world around you is not as innocent as it always seemed. Over the past years we have had shootings that have taken place that have killed...
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...Regulations Act which prohibited guns at home from being functional firearms and also made it nearly impossible to own a gun. This created conflict with the second amendment in the constitution, which 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.” It can be seen this law D.C. passed violates the constitution due to citizens not being able to have a functional firearm at their home. This caused the case of District of Columbia v. Heller to arise. Dick Anthony Heller, a police officer in D.C., applied for a one-year license that he would use to own a handgun at his place of residence. He was then denied the license. Heller sued D.C. on the account of not upholding his second amendment right. The district court’s response was it was not valid and it was dismissed. It was appealed by Heller and The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia decided that making people have...
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...text. After reading “Why We’re Still Arguing About Gun Control,” fill in the blank sections below to provide a full picture of the information presented in the article. Issues often discussed in debates about gun control: 1. Background checks for the people that buy guns 2. “Laws regulating who can carry weapons in public” 3. The kinds of guns and gun accessories that are available for the people to buy 4. Weather the second amendment guarantees the individual right for people to bear arms 5. The gun ownership for each state and weather the state requires a license of permit The government should not regulate guns because: 1. “The...
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...For many years in the United States of America, gun violence has been a major issue because a lot of people die from this malicious act. “Compared to 22 other high-income nations, the United States' gun-related murder rate is 25 times higher” (Preidt). By looking at this fact, one can clearly infer that Americans suffer from a severe case of gun violence and that this issue needs to be taken care of. Furthermore, gun violence has a psychological impact on families because they have to mourn over the death of their loved ones (which creates emotional scars) and in some cases children develop posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which can affect brain development at an early age. Currently in the U.S., gun related murders are prominent in Chicago,...
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...Conway Why gun control is bad So growing up in the south, guns were a way of life and every day I remember before going to school me and my bro would get up every day at 4am and go hunting for game and every day we would throw our guns in the back of his Chevy and we would go to school get and our education. Then after- school have ended we would go straight into our duck blinds for another two to three hours then we would bring home our kill and help our parents make dinner. And we would sit around our table eating dinner talking about our day and how we would work with our hand and to produce food and money to pay bills. But now you got people like Barrack Hussein Obama who is trying to destroy a way of life but trying to destroy apart of America by trying to change the second amendment. Reasons on why I think gun control is bad The Second Amendment of the US Constitution protect individual gun ownership. Next reason is Gun control laws do not deter crime; gun ownership deters crime and Gun control laws, especially those that try to ban assault weapons, also it well infringe upon the right to own guns for hunting and sport As a proud American I hold the United States constitution to my heart. The second amendment of the US constitution reads, "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.(stated from the nra website) or in simple terms the right to carry a gun. Next gun ownership...
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...book in which he urges his fellow Britons to follow the founding ideal of The United States. He is hence a strong advocate of most American values and ideas except for the most prominent subject in this article – private gun ownership and the second amendment. Those are subjects that many emphasizes as bad things about the US, along with objections about the country’s tendency to riven by race and that politicians are in hand of corporations. For a person like JF, who normally do feel affection for USA, does it seem a bit unusual to write such con American article as this may appear. But I believe that the author’s purpose of writing this article is more a one part decent helping hand and a one part sternly wagging his finger at the USA. A helping hand in form of advice; as JF mentions Britain’s low homicide rates due to all guns, with all but the most minor exceptions, are banned in the UK. Along with the British role model example, he accentuates the fact that The United States of America had 12,397 recorded homicides by firearms in year 1997 – a total 194 times bigger number than in Britain. He thus recommends the US to follow Britain’s example and do something to minimize gun legality and consequently the number of homicides. He also raises the question of why such a potent superpower that dominates in almost every sphere of human activity – economic as well as...
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...We all have heard the stories of gun violence. The Tucson, Arizona supermarket shooting, the Sandy Hook shooting, and the Colorado Movie Shooting. But are these the fault of not enough gun control? No, they are not. People believe that stricter gun control laws will stop shootings like these, but they will not. Gun control laws will limit our freedoms as Americans, access our private information, and the laws won’t work. Wayne LaPierre, an NRA top executive, puts it best: “The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun, is a good guy with a gun.” The police may not always be there in enough time to stop a mass shooter, but a trained citizen can stop any shooter. Background checks do not work to stop bad people getting a gun, because they...
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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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...Imagine somebody breaks into your house with a gun and you can’t purchase one due to gun control laws being overly excessive. What are you going to do to protect yourself and your family? Are you going to try to escape or fight back? Are you going to hide? These are only a small amount of the questions you have to ask yourself before you support gun control. Gun control takes away from the rights of people like past felons and other people who have faced criminal charges but have been rehabilitated and taken from people who practice the sport of hunting.That is why we don't need as many gun control laws as we already do as it takes away the basic human right to defend yourself from tyrannical government and other threats. Gun control and gun...
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