where i stand on gun control is that i believe we should have the right to get a gun but i feel like we might need to keep the rules and regulations on guns because everyone doesn’t have the mentality that if you have a gun it can kill someone if you pull the trigger and some people have illegal guns that just have them for violences are so they can protect there self from other people who have guns but we do have people that believe guns are here to protect us not so you can just kill someone but
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Similarly‚ a year later Slovak conducted another study on gun violence and children. This study examine the effects that gun violence exposure have on youth mental health and how trauma is associated with gun violence exposure (Slovak‚ 2002). According to research gun statistics‚ in the United States violent injury and death from a gun affect children and adolescents in urban settings (Slovak‚ 2002). The researchers investigate violence exposure and its relationship to mental health risk and they
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Gun Control: Why Guns Lead to Problems and Not Solutions Guns are a rather contentious topic to discuss. Chances are---if you haven’t been living under a rock---you’ve recently heard some form of televised debate on their legality at some point. One of the major topics being discussed in the 2016 Presidential campaign is the right to own a gun and how the legality relates to the Constitution. The very concept of gun ownership has come to be a symbol of masculinity‚ rebelliousness‚ and freedom from
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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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Guns on Campus On April 16 of 2007‚ a man named Cho Seung-Hui entered the campus of Virginia Tech University. He walked around the school carrying a gun. Seung-Hui shot and killed 2 students in their dorm room. Within two hours later‚ he had shot classrooms full of students. 30 more young adults’ lives were taken that day. Cho also took his own life after the shooting. Later we would refer to this as the Virginia Tech Massacre (source # 5). Tragedies like this are sparking controversial conversations
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Will more stringent gun control laws create less crime? Will stiffer gun control keep known criminals from committing their awful acts? Gun Control is law designed to impose legal measures to license‚ control‚ or restrict the ownership of firearms by members of the public. That means the government’s only responsibility is and should be to determine which citizens are able to get a permit to own and carry a firearm. They should do background checks for any mental illnesses‚ past criminal activity
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Jack: Expository Paragraph In William Golding’s novel‚ ’ The Lord of the Flies’‚ the author places the character Jack with the role symbolic of a totalitarian figure whose ambitious lust for power corrupts the society of the island with elements of unbridled savagery‚ and exploits the defects of human nature for his own desires. To begin‚ Golding grants Jack with vices of greed and wrath to immorally attain his goals for power‚ symbolizing the avarice that Man as a whole
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In America‚ the problem is not that we have too many guns; the problem is that we don’t have any guns in the right places. Federal buildings‚ banks‚ and corporate buildings all have armed security. Which is logical‚ but why not in schools? Children and their safety should be more important than the money in the bank or the secrets in some CEO’s office. For some reason‚ certain people just find the idea of arming teachers as an out-of-this-world solution. It shouldn’t be a surprise that school shooters
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amount of people calling for more guns on school campuses. School is a place where children and teachers should feel safe to be‚ learn‚ and to explore different opinions and ideas‚ not a place where gun
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educational issues teachers‚ school administrators‚ parents‚ and students face each and every day ranging from acceptable dress codes to Common Core standards to teacher assessments to effective sex education‚ but none as life threatening as the issue of gun control. Many schools across the nation have been the unfortunate victims of violent crimes. In 1999‚ 12 students and one teacher were fatally shot at Columbine High School in Colorado. In 2007‚ 32 college students were shot and killed at the Virginia
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