Amendment regulates militia and the right to bear arms. There has been a nationwide debate on gun control recently after the mass shooting in the Auroa theatre in Colorado. Some people believed that the more people owning guns‚ the more crimes will have in our daily life. They are also trying to connect Canada’s low crime rate with the prohibition of owning a gun in their law. They also believe if we outlaw guns in the US‚ we should also see a significant drop in murder and crime rate. But in reality
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Gun Control Are you tired of not being able to go to the store and fear that maybe just one day something terrible might happen? I believe that we should not have the right to own guns. The government should not give citizens the right to obtain firearms not only so we can decrease the crime rates but to make sure the people feel safe. The only way to guarantee safety is to knock firearms out of our population as much as possible. First of all‚ there are more illegal guns being sold every day
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Statement: Gun control decreases crime. If gun control is regulated‚ then we will have less crime. Access to firearms makes killing easy‚ efficient‚ and impersonal‚ which increases the lethality of crime. Josh Sugarmann‚ the Executive Director of the Violence Policy Center has once said‚ "We recoil in horror and search for explanations‚ but we never face up to the obvious preventive measure: a ban on the handy killing machines that make crimes so easy.”Allowing untrained people to carry guns puts others
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new proposed gun control laws in the aftermath of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton‚ Connecticut that occurred on December 14th‚ 2012. This incident claimed the lives of twenty 1st graders and six adults and has set the government in motion to try to prevent future acts of violence by strengthening gun control laws in the United States (Smith). This has been a topic that has been an extremely emotional debate with people on both sides unwilling to compromise. Gun advocates and
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Gun Control Gun Control has became one of the most highly debated subjects of social issue of this time. Do you ever wonder what lead to this major issue‚ and where it began? It is believed that the issue began to arise after the Kennedy assassination in 1963. This was a major shock to the country and showed the danger of guns‚ and the lack of control of weapons. Even with this being one of the major turning points in the history of guns and the danger they can bring if in the wrong hands‚ the issue
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shootings. And I think regulation of guns is a necessary action that needs to be taken in order to save lives. Gun control is necessary in order to have a peaceful country and world. Guns are very powerful weapons‚ and they are way too easy to access nowadays in America. The United States has the highest gun ownership rate in the world‚ The U.S. has 88.8 guns for every 100 American residents‚ gun crime and murders had been increasing every year. Without gun control‚ many lives are being taken for unnecessary
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Gun Control There should be a crackdown on guns. Is this world safe from gun violence? We all know this world is really out of control with the use of guns and it seems like as the years passed by‚ there have been so many killings happening that involving a gun. Also‚ just about anybody on the street can get their hands on a gun and you don’t have to buy it from a store. Maybe if there was a big crack down on guns it wouldn’t be so many needless deaths. It seems like as the years goes on there are
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opinion about gun control with politicians‚ the media‚ community leaders and school administrators leading the charge. The debate over gun control is actually misguided. How can a law be controlled? It can only be enforced. The Constitution legally established the right for any law abiding citizen to keep and bear arms‚ yet proponents of gun control wish to steadily erode this law through regulation and legislation. The term gun control is just that‚ a steady relentless effort to seize control by chipping
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Gun Control Research Paper 1. Newspaper article McNeil‚ Harold. “Local governments group votes for repeal of state’s gun safety law.” Buffalo News‚ The (NY) 02 Mar. 2013: Points of View Reference Center. Web. 18 Apr. 2013. This article demonstrates how an act known as the Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement Act amended by the State Senate and Assembly of New York violate the constitutional Second Amendment of all people. The act was rushed to be signed into law on the same day‚ but
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and keep firearms‚ along with the right to defend oneself‚ is as central to the American identity as apple pie. However‚ unlike American cuisine‚ the issue of “gun politics” (as many academics and pundits call the issue) or gun control in the United States is extremely polarizing. During the last couple decades‚ the debate over gun control has been characterized by a stalemate between the individual’s right to own firearms protected by the Constitution and the duty of government to prevent crime and
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