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    Imagine you are enjoying lunch at school‚ you’re by your friends talking about how your day is going. It is as normal as any day at school‚ but little do you know that it would soon become the scariest day of your life. Just five short minutes before you are dismissed to fourth hour you hear two loud booms echo across the cafeteria. Everyone looks at eachother‚ confusion covering their face like a thick blanket. More books are sounded‚ and everyone soon realizes that the sounds are indeed gunshots

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    that our children are preparing to die‚ while our Congress waits because there isn’t enough evidence that guns are the issue that is ruining our society. We need gun control in the US because our society cannot be built based on fear. Our children should not have to grow up in a world where they must hide from their own source of knowledge. The Second Amendment protects individual rights to own guns‚ but that should not mean that we have

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    Life is imperfect. We all have ups and downs in our life. However‚ there is always a person who will inspire and influence us in our life. Since the day I came to this world‚ I have met a lot of people but I will always remember there is a person who has had a great influence in my lifemy mother. My mother actually is an ordinary woman with curly medium length brown hair. She has a medium height and average weight which made her looked tall and thin. Year by year‚ she is getting older.

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    the tragedy that a family had in turkey. The family was totally split up. The mom was died their dad arrested and the children were sent to the foster home. God knows how many families experience this kinds of situation or worse than that. All of those bad things happened in a second because they had gun at home. If there was not such a dangerous device‚ the man at least had the opportunity or more time to think better in order not to be a killer of his wife. Owning gun is one of the big problems

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    I am writing to you to address the situation of gun control. Gun control laws should be invoked so that there would be fewer deaths with guns. They should be enacted so that there could be fewer shootings which would result in fewer deaths. They should also be invoked because legally owned are often kept in homes which could result in criminals being able to take guns from people’s homes. Although guns control laws would help with the cause they would also worsen the cause because they are very often

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    pediatrician at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. As a caregiver to children in the state of Ohio‚ I am writing you today to speak to you about a very important topic: gun violence. As a constituent and young pediatrician‚ I have already seen the monumental toll gun violence takes upon children. As a teenager‚ I lost my friend‚ Amanda‚ in a domestic homicide-suicide. As a medical student‚ I witnessed the autopsy of a young man who was shot four times by a 16-year-old. He left behind an infant

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    Have you had any obstacle during your life and how did you overcome it? I think every person in life has had an obstacle in different levels‚ but mine is a funny obstacle and may be not so logical. When I was a little girl my mom enrolled me in a swimming course and it was all Saturdays‚ she wanted me to learn to swim because I was going to have that class on school and she was worried if one day a girl pushed me I was going to drown. I don’t like to swim and I was afraid to do it‚ I received three

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    Alicia Morris Five things that have had a significant impact on my life are: 1. Graduating for high school 2. Getting my first apartment 3. Having my two beautiful daughters 4. Becoming the Head Cake Decorator on my job 5. Returning to school Each of these experiences has had an amazing impact on my life in one way or another. Graduating from high school was a big deal for me as well as my family. I was the first of my grandmother’s grandkids to graduate from high school. After graduating

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    Gun violence is a serious issue‚ but is taking away guns going to solve it? I think it will not for three main reasons: Laws only affect law abiding citizens‚ other countries have tried this (it doesn’t work)‚ and that it would be almost impossible to enforce. To start things off‚ making laws to ban guns will not stop people from getting them. People will buy the guns in question on the black market. The Trans Border Institute estimates that over 250‚000 guns are illegally imported into the U.S

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    America‚ but which historically has proved to be always possible. -Hubert Humphrey‚ 1960 My background is probably atypical for a somewhat high-profile supporter of the right to keep and bear arms. I am black and grew up in Manhattan’s East Harlem‚ far removed from the great American gun culture of rural‚ white America. Although my voting patterns have become somewhat more conservative in recent years‚ I remain in my heart of hearts a 1960s Humphrey Democrat concerned with the plight of those most vulnerable

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