Gun Control Many Americans believe that gun control is a good thing for the United States ‚but how much good can it really do? Although more gun control laws can reduce gun deaths and lead to fewer suicides‚ gun controls laws would not be a good idea for the United States because they violate the right to self-defense‚ put more criminals in business‚ won’t prevent criminals from obtaining guns or breaking laws and many other reasons. The first reason gun controls laws are not a good idea is because
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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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The issue of gun control has begun to become a big part of debates in the United States. A good bit of people believe there should indeed be stricter gun laws. These opinions are based off the amount of popular shootings in the United States over the past couple of years. In the year of 2016 there was a total of 58‚283 shooting incidents and only 385 of these were mass shootings. During the shootings about 15‚063 people died; 3‚321 of those who were killed were children (doc 1). A recent‚ well-known
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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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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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Gun Control America is the most well-armed country in the world. People are trying to infringe our right to bear arms. Why would they do such a thing? They can’t terminate or misuse the constitution. The constitution has been placed before us for many reasons and it should not be changed. People believe that guns are killing people and that they should be revoked from human possession. But does that mean that a spoon makes a person fat? Does that mean the utensil being used is the reason for bodily
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deserve neither and lose both ” (Benjamin Franklin). Gun control has been an issue for several years now due to the mass shootings and gun violence that has taken place. Many laws have been established to keep anymore shootings from happening‚ but these laws are starting to get out of hand. Adding and creating more gun control laws will not fix the problems with society today. Although some people could argue that gun control laws keep people safe‚ guns do not murder people‚ people murder people and no
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reduce access to guns. America has the highest amount of gun related deaths each year in the world. “In Germany 381‚ in France 255‚ in Canada 165 in the United Kingdom 68‚ in Australia 65‚ in Japan 39 and in the United States‚ 11‚127” (Moore Michael‚ 51:15-51:48). America has 270 to 310 million guns‚ which is 88.8 to every 100 people in America‚ which is the highest total and per capita number in the world (ProCon). The correlation between the number of people owning and dying from guns in the United
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