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    protection‚safety‚and confidence. Guns don’t need to banned.Guns don’t need to be banned because then someone couldn’t provide protection against a criminal who smuggled guns.Say if a criminal who smuggled guns decided to take your money and you had no firearm‚ then you would have no protection against someone who had a firearm.This shows how vulnerable we would be if not a person had any way to protect themselves from a criminal. Guns have no need to

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    Gun Control and Violence

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    an expression often quoted by those who support the right to freely carry firearms. For many years‚ organizations such as the National Rifle Association (NRA) have pointed to the high rate of gun violence in the United States and compared it with the low rates in Europe; this comparison was done in order to stress their point that gun violence is a cultural/societal problem that should not impede anyone’s right to own firearms. Those who advocate gun control‚ and oppose the NRA‚ point to the United

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    real change. The biggest misconception on gun control is that people fear gun control means taking away our guns completely. However‚ that is far from the truth. “Gun control” is a broad term that covers any sort of restriction on what kinds of firearms can be

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    you don’t do it you’re in dereliction of duty as an American. Period” (Moore Michael‚ 8:37-8:56). Being armed does not make Americans responsible; paying taxes‚ being a good citizen and helping the community makes an American responsible. Owning firearms is a choice not a responsibility. Besides‚ the Second Amendment has never been updated. Before‚ being armed meant being responsible because the United States did not have law enforcement to protect Americans like today. If Americans need gun to

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    Mass Shootings

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    I believe that if corporations that sell firearms were to create more advanced background checks that include both criminal and mental health history‚ the number of suicides‚ school shootings‚ and robberies would decrease. Author of‚ Mental Illness‚ Mass Shootings‚ and the Politics of American Firearms‚Jonathan M. Metzl‚ explains that “60% of perpetrators of mass shootings in the United States since 1970 displayed symptoms

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    understand and be around firearms needs to have complete understanding and education on how to act around firearms because of how dangerous that they are. Let’s talk about how to gun proof and have self-control around firearms.

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    much the same as they always have been. In 1977‚ legislation was passed by the Canadian Parliament regulating long guns for the first time‚ restructuring the availability of firearms‚ and increasing a variety of penalties . Canadian firearms law is primarily federal‚ and "therfore national in scope‚ while the bulk of the firearms regulation in the United States is at the state level; attempts to introduce stricter leglislation at the federal level are often defeated". The importance of this issue

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    actually threatening the American people safety. It according to research by gunpolicy.org reported that the evaluated aggregate number of firearms (both licit and unlawful) held by regular people in the United States is 270‚000‚000 to 310‚000‚000. The main cause of the gun crime is the gun ownership. The gun owning rate in USA is too high. USA has 88 firearms per 100 people. More guns mean more crime and death. In the USA‚ the highest gun ownership rate. On the contrary‚ Japan had a pretty low gun

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    just as long unnecessary gun violence has been around. Gun violence has been plaguing the United States for some time now and nothing has been done about it. More gun laws should be enacted so suicides‚ crimes‚ and accidental deaths that involve firearms are a lot less likely to happen then they are now. The more obsolete gun violence the better and this is a step toward that. Most everybody who defends the right to keep guns available to the public cite the 2nd amendment and how guns can be used

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    day‚ eight American children and teenagers die from gun violence. More than 29‚000 people are killed by guns in the U.S. each year. One major reason for these deaths is easy access to guns. There are an astounding 200 million privately owned firearms in our nation today‚ including 65 million handguns. The victims of gun violence are of all ages and from all races. The most recent government figures reveal that 2‚825 children and teens died in America from gunshots in 2004. Since the

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