Proposition 63 How many more innocent people need to die from gun violence before we take bold action to save lives? We have all seen news reporting's on people being killed during a shooting. Violence will never be completely terminated but what if there was a way that you can help bring the death rate down? Well there is. By voting yes on proposition 63 you support prohibiting the possession of large-capacity magazines and require individuals to first pass a background check before being granted
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¨Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.¨ What this means is that all the good people out there know what's the right thing to do and the laws never need to testify it, then for all the bad people out there that do a crime always find/get a way out from getting in trouble. In Anne Frank's quote it said “In spite of everything , I still believe people are really good at heart.” In response to the quote of Anne Frank, people are
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Gun violence in america has took a rapid increase in the past five years there has been two hundred and ninety school shooting since 2013 and seventeen of them has been in 2018 there are many people that say that sandy hook was the schools shooting that started all of the recent shooting because it gave all the kids that were feeling abused and mistreated a idea how to get revenge even if it was to take people's lives which was wrong because nobody deserves to lose their life. But the school shooters
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Response to Mass Shootings in U.S. Gun ownership laws in the United States have drawn much attention within the past few years. Many citizens believe that there is no longer a need to own firearms. However, gun owners in the U.S. are hesitant to give up their second amendment right. In Healy’s article, she explains the findings of a new study that shows the correlation between gun laws and the frequency of mass shootings. The findings show that nations with a large gun-owning population have more mass
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Gun control has been a series topic of debate in recent years. People should not be able to purchase firearms. There are many reasons why people should not be able to buy guns. One reason is guns are not safe, there have been far too many accidents involving people being killed by firearms. Criminals can purchase guns to commit a crime. Semi-atomic weapons and automatic weapons are for military purpose only, and not to be used by civilians. Children can gain access to a gun and harm someone or themselves
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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
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The topic of gun control is perhaps one of the most controversial subjects in the nation. It is known that there are approximately 300 million firearms in circulation in the United States. With that being said, from information gathered from the article by Paul Waldman, those weapons account to the 11,000-12,000 gun related homicides that occur every year. If someone has guns in his or her possession, it is easier to kill many people at once. Bombs, guns, knives, and other weapons can be used
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currently more guns than people in the United States. For every 100 people in the United States, there are 112.6 guns whereas the second most guns per capita is Cyprus with 69.7 guns for every 100 people. Gun control laws may apply to the restrictions or regulations of firearms, whether it be to remove firearms completely, making it harder to acquire them, or by enforcing stricter background checks on the customers who are looking to purchase firearms. The controversy surrounding gun control laws some
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need to be debated at all. The point of gun control is that it is common sense that your average person should not have the ability to kill another person. The fact of the matter is that the US keeps guns in the people’s pockets because of the right to bare arms, but when this collides with the right to not be killed why do the guns always win? This is somewhat the largest problem, if someone has a gun and you don’t you don’t feel safe, you go off and buy a gun. This is sort of like children in a park
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United States, gun control should be enforced because it will decrease suicide deaths. According to Jacob Sullum, ¨Limiting access to guns makes each attempt more likely to fail, thus making it more likely that people will survive and not attempt to harm themselves again¨ (Jacob Sullum). Sullum proves that by keeping guns a difficult item to get, the less suicide attempts there would be. Suicide can only be done once, a bullet can kill you only once. By committing suicide with a gun, everything will
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