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
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these attacks, the average shooting lasts around 12 minutes but average police response time is 18 Minutes. Teachers should be able to carry concealed weapons because armed teachers and staff can decrease the threats of school shootings, intruders on campus, and respond to threats faster than the time it takes police officers to respond. The police are effective in handling these threats but the response time can take too long, with school staff members armed with concealed weapons they can stabilize
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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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Tougher gun control will not decrease the US violent crime rate It is true that guns have caused many deaths and a lot of criminal violence in the United States, tougher gun control will not decrease the US violent crime rate, but getting a real solution to crimes caused by guns will be very expensive and hard to do. So the government decides to win future votes by creating more gun control. There is no country in the world that can say that after passing stricter firearms laws that it
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Monica Siah Heidi Bauer Expository Essay Final Draft “Gun Control” 03/25/13 Safe, Not Sorry Freedom seems to be defined differently between Americans these days because some relate freedom to owning a gun through The Second Amendment of the United States. The Second Amendment states: "A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, has the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." Presently, part of our society is attempting to legislate
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x Do Texas Teachers Feel Concealed Handguns Are a Viable Security Option on Texas ISD Campuses? Timothy D. Clouse Wayland Baptist University EDUC 5366 1 February, 2012 Abstract This study is to explore how Texas Teachers feel about the possibility of other faculty or staff members carrying a concealed firearm on school property as a means to protect the students and staff from an armed attack. A survey was sent to 720 teachers across the 20 Texas school regions. The survey is made
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Gun Control What is gun control? Gun control is a federal act that was created back in 1968. Gun control laws must be stricter, lowering crime rates and deaths. If you haven’t heard many of us Americans are known to be very blunt, and short tempered. So for a minute, just imagine a short-tempered person with a lot of anger, and they are loaded with a gun, and around you. David B. Kopel says something similar to what I had just explained. “American Citizens are too clumsy and ill-tempered to be
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Yet there was another gun killing in the United States. There has been a lot of shootings this year and yet some people are saying that the people that are on the terrorist watch list should be able to but guns. To me that is just asking for shooting like the one that happened in San Bernardino. The shooters killed twenty and injured fourteen. Most the people that they killed were mentally handicapped. I don’t see why anybody would want to hurt someone that is mentally handicapped cause they have
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CAMPUS NEWS The gun control in US Is there enough gun control in the U.S.? Or should the control be tightened up? After the many school shootings in the U.S. arms control has become a much-discussed topic. The President of the United States and the Congress are in the process of discussing what should be done about the gun control. Barack Obama, the U.S. president, has presented some new proposals around the Firearms Act, which should help to prevent future shooting tragedies. In January
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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
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