don't know how serious of a problem gun violence is in the United States and how gun control will not solve this problem. The goal of gun control is to simply stop gun violence by taking and restricting guns for everyone. However this strategy will not work in American society because there are just too many guns for laws like this to regulate effectively. Also, gun rights are protected by the Second Amendment of the Constitution. However some people think that guns are just a dangerous toy, but they
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your child’s school. Image the sinking pit in your stomach as you wonder if it’s your child. I feel that gun control laws should be much stricter than they currently are. To keep people safe you need to have stricter gun control laws. No matter what the United States does, there will be guns. “States that allow concealed carry guns have not seen an increase in crime, but those carrying guns, have been able to use their weapons in self-defence” (Text 1). Lots of people
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If the issue of gun control is not addressed, it could potentially cause many consequences nationally and locally. Gun control is a very important topic to be discussed because there is various reasons individuals use firearms. Most use them for protection or recreational use, while on the other hand; there are those individuals that use them as a device to harm the lives of innocent citizens. First, by not addressing this issue, it will not ensure that individuals who are prohibited from owning
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should be able to own guns. For the past few decades, there have been many laws and limits that have taken away the right of the people. Many of these laws and limits have resulted from fear of citizens killing and taking power. Contrary to belief, gun control laws infringe upon the constitution, have no correlation to crime rates, and prevent U.S. citizens from protecting their selves. Gun ownership is very popular in the U.S. In fact, it is almost un-American to not own a gun. The United States
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for Democrats, Republicans and independents to say … the strongest conceivable gun control laws won't stop all acts of violence. But, also, to acknowledge that the stronger our gun control laws are, the fewer acts of violence including mass violence that will happen in our society."- Sen. Joseph Lieberman, about Sandy Hook Shooting, December 17, 2012. Guns should be much difficult to obtain than they already are. If guns aren’t harder to obtain then just like now, everyone will be able to have one
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Constitution, our guns have developed at a rate that leaves me dizzy. The guns have changed but our laws have not. We certainly do not understand why it should be harder to make plans with friends on weekends than to buy an automatic or semi-automatic weapon. In Florida, to buy a gun you do not need a permit, you do not need a gun license, and once you buy it you do not need to register it. You do not need a permit to carry a concealed rifle or shotgun. You can buy as many guns as you want at one
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would like to talk to you about our nations gun control. I feel like in the past few years there has been several mass shooting involving certain types of fire arms. To me guns are not the big problem but I do feel like certain guns should have bans and more restrictions on them. In my family guns are more than just a weapon they are a way of life. The guns we use for hunting are shotguns for duck and dove season, rifles for deer season. None of these guns we use are semi automatic they are ether bolt
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every year in one country alone. Almost 30 people a day are dying because America refuses to control the right to allow guns to be purchased. Homicides are becoming more and more common as the days past; no one thinks twice about another mass shooting, because the newspapers are plastered with new cases every other day. New neighbour? Gun out. A spouse surprising you? Fire it. A child picking up the gun? Dead a second later. The chairman of the National Rifle Association said this after the Columbine
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Gun control is an issue that is faced everywhere and there is no way to stop the spread of guns or people from using them to do bad things. Even if there was a way to remove all guns from one place and the place was claimed to be gun free, people would still find a way to sell and deliver guns to places. For example, in the United States alcohol was banned from being sold, made, shipped, and delivered in the 1920’s till 1933, Even when it was banned people still found a way to make and sell alcohol
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For many ages, the issue of gun control has been a rising issue seen 1900s. Nowadays, guns are able to harm the innocent humans. This firing incidents occur in places such as in the malls, schools, and neighborhood. Americans recently witnessed a mass shooting in Florida high school with took the lives of innocent students and teacher. As humans, we have a duty to fill and it is to make this nation safe. Many students now fear weather to go to a public school or be homeschooled. No student should
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Overview The topic of gun control is a very controversial topic that is very important to my family. My family loves guns and they are a very large part of my family's lives. We very much support the second amendment; it is one of our favorite amendments. I get my political views mostly from my dad, and he is very adamant about his views. We are a pretty well-advised family that knows what we are talking about. This topic is a matter of safety that should be important to everybody. There is a
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these shootings. (Marsters, 2018) The US has the highest number of death caused by guns in the world as well as gun owner ship being over double the amount of other countries. ("U.S. Gun Policy: Global Comparisons") Many of these death were children, but the victims are a range of ages. Many would question, if there are so many mass shooting, why are we not changing laws? Why is it so easy to get a gun? And what gun laws are in place in America? Written in the US Constitution, the second amendment
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Hello all, today I will be firing off some facts about guns. “About 200 Americans go to emergency rooms every day with gunshot wounds” (Gun Control). Yeah, that’s a lot of people. After reading any news outlet’s top story, it is easy to put your email on a “change.org” petition advocating for stricter gun laws, grieve with the nation, and move on. But what are you giving up when you sign up for this petition? A clean inbox in the morning? The storage on your phone from the 500 emails they sent you
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2009 a group of 10 students were at a BDay party when two masked gun men burst into the apt demanding cell phones and wallets. They separated the men from the women. According to the students one of the men asked the other how many bullets he had. The other responded, “Enough”. One can only imagine how the outcome of this event was going to end. But one of the students decided he was not going to be a victim. He shot at the gun man watching over the males who ran into the bathroom and jumped
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Many people say that gun laws need to removed because the Second Amendment states that we have the right to bear arms. While the Constitution does say that we have the right to bear arms, laws restricting the use of guns would be beneficial because guns directly affect crime rates and gun related deaths decrease when gun laws are increased.
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Some gun control laws should be removed because gun control laws don't make you feel safer, they will prevent you from defending yourself and your family, and they don't stop criminals from obtaining guns or using them. Gun control laws say you can’t have a gun that doesn’t make you feel any safer at all because anyone could obtain it. They prevent you from defending yourself, so if you need to save yourself you can’t because you probably don’t have a gun. Lastly, any criminal could steal a gun and
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Gun Control I think gun control is very important because we have people today wanting to shoot up schools and other big community places. Which is sad because some shouldn't own a gun for that reason. I don't really know how to make the gun laws safer. If you took everyone's guns, this world would be a whole lot safer and there wouldn't be violence. Gun Control is a very big topic these days because, you always here on the news about people killing other people with a gun or people shooting schools
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Persuasive Essay Page 1 Abdulaziz Alhusayni"" Mrs. Whitman" Writing Class" February 4, 2015" " BAN GUNS!! ‘IN THE YEAR 2013, HANDGUNS KILLED " 48 PEOPLE IN JAPAN " 8 IN GREAT BRITAN " 34 IN SWITZERLAND " 52 IN CANADA " 58 IN ISRAEL " 21 IN SWEDEN " 42 IN WEST GERMANY " 10,728 IN THE UNITED STATES’" In the controversial discussion of whether or not guns should be banned, some anti gun-control activists would say that guns are necessary to protect him/herself, others would say that guns play a
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Guns - the hunter’s tool, or the psychopath’s killing machine; both of which could be bought from a store (with a license, of course). The easy accessibility of guns can be a blessing or a curse. The right to own and weild a gun is given in our own constitution, and is deeply rooted in American culture. Whether or not we should prohibit guns is a highly debated topic in our political system, yet it seems as though mass shootings occur on a monthly basis. Fortunately, there are multiple articles that
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Persuasive Essay Strict gun control laws will help cut back violence and gun accidents in the United States for many reasons. A director of the Johns Hopkins center for gun policy and research, Baltimore MD said, “Many people don’t realize that, in most states individuals convicted for violent misdemeanors with court-issued restraining orders for domestic violence, or who have a serious history of mental illness or substance abuse, can legally possess firearms”. He also said “federal gun laws allow
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Persuasive Speech – Gun Control Gun control has always been an issue in the United States. Crimes and guns. The two seem to go hand in hand with one another. The debate over gun control is nothing new. In 1924, Presidential Candidate La Follete said, “our choice is not merely to support or oppose gun control but to decide who can own which guns under what conditions.” Guns are extremely powerful weapons. They can cause destruction, harm or death. They can be used to defend yourself or to threaten
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in the government. Most authors attempt to write in a neutral matter about the political topics. Although they make an effort to do this, the articles written are almost always swayed towards the authors opinion. Therefore, the article is more persuasive than informative towards the public. Numerous authors, including Thomas P. Abt, are prime examples of this. In the article “How Not to Respond to the Rising Murder Rate”, Thomas Abt takes a democratic stand on the situation given. He mentions
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still able to purchase their guns legally. Although I am a huge advocate for guns I still believe that broader gun policy is necessary to contain the violence associated with guns. This topic is creditable because it has been the hottest topic in the news for what seems like forever. People have been talking about gun control ever since the first ever identified mass shooting in 1983. Since I am a gun advocate I have been keeping up with the gun control debates over the years and I
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Summary : In the article I’ve Owned Six Guns I’ve Drawn on Bad Guys I want To Be Understood, the author Walter Kim changes his views on gun laws due to numerous shooting outbursts across America. Kim has owned guns since he was a child and prides himself on being a gun owner. He embarks on personal stories of him protecting his family with a gun against an escaped prisoner and a intoxicated robber. When the shootings at a movie theater in Auroa Colorado, a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, and the Sandy
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ProCon.org recently featured an article that studied gun control. “Stricter state gun laws associated with fewer gun deaths, study finds.” The article discussed gun control laws in states with stricter laws tend to have lower rates of gun related homicides, and a suicide (ProCon para. 1) Gun control in the United States is becoming a wide spread issue and is becoming a problem everywhere. Although I am living in a city with uprising crime that has been skyrocketing over the years, I wasn’t aware
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Creative thinking How might you use the strategies for applying creativity to problems and issues in addressing this topic? I think if you just mention the words gun control you get people’s attention. One of the tactics I would use to apply creativity to problems and issues is the consequences. If you were to shoot someone in the arm then you should face the same consequences. People would read this and right away think you are violating their rights. You would have to pass a law to
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Persuasive Research Paper Eng/215CA August 04, 2014 Carolyn Crane Persuasive Research Paper The Second Amendment word-for-word text is “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”. In December 15,1971 the right to bear arms was adopted into the Constitution, making the first ten amendments to the Constitution. When the topic of Gun Control is brought up you will find that there are
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As any good speaker of rhetoric would Obama manages to effectively use the four appeals. A speech about gun violence was obviously very timely taking place after the tragic shooting at Umpqua Community College. Whenever the president gives a speech it seemingly always tends to be a big deal or after a major event. Which speaks wonders about his credibility, he is the man who runs our country. Being that the speech was following an event as heart breaking as a college as a college shooting, consequently
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Louisiana Gun Control Newspapers, both online and printed, are accessed by a reader to become informed on current events and issues occurring within the global, national, and local worlds. Newspapers are written to present the information that the public desires; however, the author sometimes tend, to present the information with a biased view, whether it is intentional or not. If one is not careful when he reads an article, he, can be unknowingly, swayed by the author’s views. Generally, the
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Guns are a threat in unseen ways Kelsey Powell English 11 Social Issue Persuasive Essay March 10, 2013 I love my guns. But I also love my country. And for my country, I would give up my guns. Being as over half of the guns in the Unites States are illegally obtained, our country isn’t the safest place to be. But still, just as unsafe as any other place on the planet. So, for those few law-abiding citizens out there, if you wish to purchase a gun, you must do it completely legally. You must
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