The current gun control laws should be strictly enforced to avoid creating new laws. News laws make it harder on law abiding citizens to purchase firearms, ammunition, and magazines/clips. Some feel it would decrease gun violence by creating new laws. This is unfair to thousands of people who are gun advocates, including myself. Hundreds of thousands of people own a gun, if not more than one gun. In order to become a gun owner, there are legal steps to be followed in order to earn a permit.
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Gun Control Gun control is a set of laws that regulate the sell, manufacturing, and possession of firearms by civilians. Most countries have very strict and restrictive laws regarding firearms. In fact, only 3 countries in the world give citizens the constitutional right to bear arms. Those being the U.S., Mexico, and Guatemala, but in Mexico and Guatemala the government makes it extremely hard to obtain a weapon legally. Depending on who you ask America has a serious gun control problem. But I
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Gun Thoughts Guns are the most dangerous weapon that is easier to for people to purchase. A gun can completely decimate a family, innocent people, ending a valuable life. When I think of guns I feel mixed emotions fear, at ease, sadness, and happiness. I feel a sense of fear when I think of guns because what if someone decide to pull out a concealed weapon on me and try to take my belongings. What if a bullet came thru my window and killed one of my loved ones. What if I get killed for no intent
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Gun Control Stephen Devoid BCOM 275 July 3, 2013 Dean Clark Gun Control This topic of Gun Control is one of the most argued in this country. The article I read was written by Josh Sager. Mr. Sager’s paper covers what he calls 15 Pro-Gun” arguments and debunks them. His first argument is to address the 2nd Amendment and how he feels about people who believe that it was written for the rights of individuals to keep and bear arms are misinformed. Mr Sager writes. “Those who make this argument
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ARTICLE REBUTTAL – GUN CONTROL 1 Article Rebuttal – Gun Control Xxxxxx Xxxxx BCOM 275 20 Mar 14 Ceasar I Elpidio Article Rebuttal – Gun Control For this assignment I chose an article titled “Data suggest guns do in fact kill people” (M.S., Sep 2013). The author of the article tries to use data to show a correlation between the prevalence of firearms with the amount of homicides committed by them. To support his stance he uses crime statistics from the United Kingdom
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Are Guns a Good Thing or a Bad Thing Melissa Cushman Vincennes University Jasper Campus English 102 Professor Mayfield 15 April 2013 Are Guns a Good Thing or Bad Thing? Have you ever wondered why the media never shows anything positive that happens due to guns? Guns have never gone off by themselves on purpose. There is always a living person pulling that trigger. The government keeps trying to take away our guns when the President himself has armed security guards for him and his
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2013 Gun Control Our world is changing, we seem to face new problems everyday. Change effects everything from the weather to our healthcare and beyond. One change that has been causing a lot of push towards action is gun violence. Times aren’t what they once were. There was a time when people would leave their houses unlocked at night and didn’t fear walking alone after dark. Through the years people’s sense of security has changed. A lot of that change is due to the horrific gun violence
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Why Gun Free Zones Are Not Safe Since the year 2007, there has been over three major public shootings in the United States. On April 16, 2007 Cho-Seung-Hui shot and killed over thirty two students and faculty members at Virginia Tech College. On December 14, 2012 Adam Lanza shot and killed twenty students and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary school. On January 18, 2013 James Holmes shot and killed twelve people an injured fifty at the Century 16 Movie Theatre in Colorado. (Center
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big part in gun violence. Life can be given and life can be taken. You take a life and go through the court system and may end up with life. In the US, guns are not just used for killing. Guns are used for protection as well (great grandma shoots at two men who tried to rob her on bus). Some would say more guns more homicides. No one wants to lose fights anymore. Guns are not hard to come by and conflicts are not easy to avoid. Taking away guns leaves others defenseless, adding kills. (Zimmerman
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populous is highly important. The United States needs to strengthen its gun control policy in order to create a safer environment for its citizens. Death rates involving guns are a real threat to the general public and need to be improved. The death tolls from mass shootings would decrease if assault rifles and handguns with high capacity magazines were banned or more severely restricted. Finally, while it is a common view that guns are a needed for self defense, in many cases it puts a person in more
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