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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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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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 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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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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