Gun Control‚ a Mental Health Issue in America In particular‚ gun control of late has rapidly become an even more controversial topic in America due to violent acts against the public by troubled individuals. In an article written by Jonathan Metzl and Kenneth MacLeish‚ “Mental Illness‚ Mass Shootings and the Politics of American Firearms”‚ the authors state that “In the United States‚ popular and political discourse frequently focuses on the causal impact of mental illness in the aftermath of mass
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Over the recent year’s gun violence have took a major turn for the worse‚ from school shootings‚ to terrorist attacks and the threat levels are increasing daily. Families are frightened to leave the comfort of their own home and with such a rapid increase in gun violence some people are scared to go home knowing anything can happen. I complexly understand some individuals collect guns for collection purpose or as a hobby but are l was to earn a gun are completely screw and in five quick minutes
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you might think that such a tragedy will never happen in our maple syrup loving country known as Canada‚ right? Well‚ that’s what I’ll be discussing today. Good morning honourable judges‚ teachers and my fellow students‚ today I’ll be talking about gun violence in Canada. Now‚ students‚ I would like for you to take a quick glance at your fellow peers for a moment. Most have you have been together as early as kindergarten‚ correct? You have
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People Should Be Allowed To Own Guns Nowadays‚ many countries allow people to own guns. As we know that people have different physique‚ no matter how hard you do still cannot change of postnatal factor. Guns are useful‚ otherwise it won’t work effectively. Police wouldn’t want to carry them around. If everyone can have a gun‚ it can make up of weakness of the human body. Evildoers have guns‚ we will get trouble. But for good people‚ we can protect ourselves. Because of gun‚ stronger person dares not
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right to bear arms; however certain gun control laws must be put into place in order to keep the public safe and protect the well being of our country. Gun control in the United States has been a controversial topic for American’s for a great number of years. The first gun laws date back to the Revolutionary War and have continued to evolve into the widely debated proposals of present day. (Wikipedia‚ 2013) There are a number of pros and cons where gun control in concerned. Most rational American’s
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Guns in classrooms? Yes. Guns at sporting events? No. The administrators use these as examples of places that will be marked armed and unarmed zones at the University of Texas. Fifty years ago the first mass shooting at an American college took place. The University of Texas experienced a mass shooting when a student shot 45 people‚ killing 14 of them‚ from the clock tower (Gubler). In the New York Times article “Philosophizing With Guns” Simone Gubler talks about the “campus carry” bill that will
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English 120 26 March 2012 Why a Peaceful Woman Carries a Gun Linda M. Hasselstrom made a very convincing argument in her essay‚ A Peaceful Woman Explains Why She Carries a Gun in the book Patterns for College Writing. Hasselstrom strongly believes women should carry pistols to defend themselves from being attacked or raped. She learned that any female can expect to be criminally assaulted‚ and women have a fifty-fifty chance of being raped‚ robbed or attacked. Hasselstrom’s essay had some
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I opened It and it was a gun I was really nervous because I have never shot a gun before but my step dad said if I follow the directions it would be ok. So the next day we went to the store to get some clays so that I could practice because I have never shot want one. So we got a box of clays and my stepdad said that we could not shoot it today because we did not have a clay shooter.I was sad at first‚ but then I got over it so I could not wait to shoot my shoot my gun. So we all went
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Guns Should Not Be Banned In The U.S. Firearms are weapons of destruction‚ annihilation‚ and carnage. However‚ a lot of people disagree and have very legitimate reasons why firearms should not be banned. There are several controversies that suggest banning the use or possession of firearms. Guns should not be banned. In contrast‚ guns can be weapons of destruction or a form of self-protection; depending on the user and the training of that particular person. Being trained by a firearms instructor
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The gun laws in Colorado allow the people to carry concealed weapons if they pass a test and a background check. I believe that this law is not doing enough to stop shootings from happening. According to Procon.org‚ “Carrying a concealed handgun increases the chances of a confrontation escalating and turning lethal.” If this continues than people who have no criminal history would be allowed to carry firearms. The downside to this is shootings are much more likely to happen because there are more
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