Gun Control Gun Control is a broad term that covers any sort of restriction on what kind of firearms can be sold and bought‚ who can possess or sell them‚ where and how they can be stored or carried‚ what duties a seller has to vet a buyer‚ and what obligations both the buyer and the seller have to report transactions to the government. This law is basically made for white American men‚ like most laws are. According to Gunsfreedom.com‚ “The Federal government started its gun control policies in response
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Jeramie Menzies Per. 1 Ap English Ms.Carter Gun Control Chris Rock once said “Gun control? We need bullet control! I think every bullet should cost 5‚000 dollars‚ because if a bullet cost five thousand dollar‚ we wouldn ’t have any innocent bystanders.” This means that if a bullet was that expensive then people would think twice before committing a crime. Increasing the cost of bullets may not be our best option‚ but he has the right idea that guns should not be banned. “Criminals will always find
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What is gun control? Gun control is when the government puts rules and regulations on where one can bring guns. Governments also limit the amount of guns one owns. Guns are a way to protect our families‚ stop criminals‚ and a way to hunt to provide food for families. Some people abuse guns and bring harm to others which is horrible. There should not be a law on gun control. This law restricts those who own them to protect themselves and restricts them from having a firearm. Keeping guns in the
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When one hears the phrase gun control and safety in the United States‚ they are haunted with the devastating stories of this past year. Guns and violence have reached a dangerous peak in the views of many Americans. In my opinion this heated debate reached its most recent popularity with the shooting at the Dark Knight premiere and the Newtown shooting. Our president and government have been under the pressure to decide what steps should be taken to protect the citizens of this country…but also they
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We all have opinions about gun control. And many people have different ones‚ but let me tell you about mine. I believe that we should have better gun laws and ill tell why. Because right now anyone in the world can buy a gun from any store. I don’t think anyone should have a gun because i think all guns are dangerous. Guns are only meant for one thing and that is killing people. Amanda Marcotte at Rolling stone says that for those of us who are more worried about preventing unnecessary deaths than
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murdered (Djansezian). Looking at gun violence in this light makes it very understandable why support of stricter gun control has increased drastically in the recent past. A 2015 Gallup poll found that 55% of Americans say we should have stricter gun laws‚ up a significant 8% from 2014. Ideally‚ intensifying gun control laws would keep the weapons out of the hands of criminals or other people that would use the weapons illegally. However‚ would creating stricter gun laws actually decrease violence
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Gun Control: Worse For Us Than We Know Almost everyone living in this country should have witnessed such debates. Some people might not have listened to a formal debate‚ but an informal gun control debate is being carried on by many groups and individuals. It is very unlikely that someone has not listened to one. Recall the occasions when you were traveling or waiting somewhere hearing the neighbors discussing gun control pros and cons. These conversations are also gun control debates in the wider
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Squeezing the trigger on a gun to take someone’s life will be second nature if it prevents innocent people or loved ones from being shot by an intruder. To some people gun control is a crime issue‚ to others it a right issue. So is a society without guns a safer place or is it? Let’s take the UK for example‚ in 1997 the UK banned hand guns and crimes doubled in the decade as said in The Times August 24‚ 2007. The cartoon picture above was found through Google on “how gun control works” by Vicki McClure
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A Smoking Gun from Down Under Recent events have brought the heated debate about gun control to atomic levels in the United States. For some Americans‚ it seems of no question that we should limit or even ban an individual’s right to bear arms for the greater good of our nation. For others‚ the right to own a firearm is one of the fundamental liberties afforded the citizens of this country and to restrict that right intrudes on the very essence of being American. The argument for limiting or banning
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I’m Taking a Stance on Gun Control Guns need to be controlled. From the mass shooting in Newton‚ Connecticut that killed twenty-seven people‚ twenty of whom were faultless children at Sandy Hook Elementary‚ to nine people gunned down during Bible study in Charleston‚ South Carolina at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church‚ guns have proven to be an extreme political problem. In 2011‚ former Arizona congresswoman‚ Gabrielle Giffords became a victim of gun violence‚ along with eighteen other
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