Gun control is something that has been talked about for many years now with valid points on both sides. In my opinion, we do not need stricter gun control for the simple fact that guns don’t kill people people kill people. If someone gets into a car accident while under the influence of alcohol they don't go out and try to make it harder for someone to get it they simply charge the person with a crime and that is the end of it. When a criminal gets his hand on a gun and kills someone they don't just
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Gun Control COMM 215 October 14, 2013 Gun Control The United States is in a controversy of whether or not the Second Amendment is protecting the country or killing it. The United States owns approximately 250 million guns, nearly one for each citizen, and increases about seven million more each year. Numerous experts believe that the Second Amendment in the Constitution is rational and legal. However, they do not condone maliciously shooting people. Many lives could be saved with
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Gun control laws should not be strengthened, instead they should be enforced. Instead of making it harder for law-abiding citizens to obtain guns, guns should be taken away from unstable individuals or people who should not have guns like criminals. The first reason why gun control should not be strengthened is that citizens have the right to own guns; it is one of those entitlements that makes the United States different from other countries. Secondly, criminals are criminals and that is why they
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A Rebuttal of Gun Control What would be going through your mind if you were at your barber and a deranged man came in and began pointing a gun at others and you. You have your 5 year old son with you? Would you be thinking if they would ban guns this would have never happened? Probably not! What you were probably thinking is if I had a gun on me I could protect not only my own lift but also my sons life and the people around me. People are starting to see a gun as an object of death and destruction
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standing there pointing a gun at you. The government has said no guns, so you have no way to defend yourself. People say that getting rid of all the guns will stop so many murders, but the people who are going to abuse the usage of guns will figure out how to get them. The person behind the gun, the one pulling the trigger, that is the killer. The gun does not fire itself. More gun control equals more murders. People who abuse the usage of guns will not listen to the gun laws. Matthew Patrick said
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same. There would be people trying to harm others and people stealing things from you. Additionally, the value of respect and sportsmanship also makes humans better because without respect and sportsmanship, no one would get along and everyone would have problems with each other. Law, respect, and sportsmanship are beneficial for society because the law helps control gun violence. Society develops well when there is a law and people show respect to what the law is saying not to do. The text states,
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forces. They include revolvers and selfloading pistols; rifles and carbines; sub-machine guns; assault rifles; and light machine guns. Light weapons are broadly categorized as those weapons intended for use by several members of armed or security forces serving as a crew. They include heavy machine guns; hand-held under-barrel and mounted grenade launchers; portable anti-aircraft guns; portable anti-tank guns; recoilless rifles; portable launchers of anti-tank missile and rocket systems; portable
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destruction be banned ? People say that we should ban these weapons to put an end to mass murder shootings, while I think that if they ban these ¨assault weapons¨ they will be banning the wrong guns. James Holmes a man who used a AR-15 with a 100 round drum magazine to commit a mass murder, because the gun is fully automatic and has accurate shooting he was able to shoot many people at once. Roughly 16,272 murders were committed in the US in 2008 by ¨assault weapons¨. Although these guns are too powerful
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event? Unfortunately, this is a common occurrence in America “from 2000 to 2010 a total of 335,609 people died from guns” (“Just the facts: Gun violence in America”) these numbers are a striking and often shocking realization of the gun violence in America. . Gun legislation has become a prominent debate among government officials, and the general population has started to demand stricter gun laws. Gun violence is a major issue in our country - a problem we have been unable to address because of political
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Gun Control in America Alicia Buford COMM 215 Instructor Bruce Massis May 20, 2013 Did you know that in the United States that there are almost as many firearms as there are citizens (Wadman, 2013)? Consequently, the second amendment of the constitution gives each American citizen “The Right to Bear Arms.” The right to bear these arms is a just that, a right but, along with that right comes responsibility. Since the days of the pioneers, firearms have been an element of the American tradition
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