The current gun control laws should be strictly enforced to avoid creating new laws. News laws make it harder on law abiding citizens to purchase firearms‚ ammunition‚ and magazines/clips. Some feel it would decrease gun violence by creating new laws. This is unfair to thousands of people who are gun advocates‚ including myself. Hundreds of thousands of people own a gun‚ if not more than one gun. In order to become a gun owner‚ there are legal steps to be followed in order to earn a permit.
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Gun Control I say all guns are good guns. There are no bad guns. I say the whole nation should be an armed nation. Period.@ This rather bold statement was made by Joseph Foss. Former Governor Joseph Foss‚ a former fighter pilot for the US Air Force‚ is the current President of the NRA‚ or National Rifle Association (Lacayo 16). The NRA is a special interest group known by many. Its members are stereotyped to be a group of >truck-driving=‚ pompous‚ huntsmen. Indeed this is partially
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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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Stricter Gun Control Laws Gun control laws aim to restrict or regulate the sale‚ purchase‚ or possession of firearms through licensing‚ registration‚ or identification requirements. With the recent abundance of mass shootings in the U.S.‚ the subject of gun safety has once again been brought into the spotlight. These tragic events serve as reminders that stricter gun control policies should be enforced to ensure public safety. According to The Center for Responsive Politics‚ gun activists argue
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Mrs. Hightower English II 11 Nov. 2016 Gun Control: Why it is wrong Many people are afraid of guns. Therefore‚ many people believe that our guns should be taken away. This against the law and it will anger a lot of people. Many people are gun supporters. This could cause a chaotic uprising of gun supporters. Not only are guns in major parts of our history‚ but they are also used to defend friends‚ family‚ and everyday people. people that are trying to take guns away believe they are preventing crime
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Do We Need Tougher Gun Control Laws? One of the most controversial issues in our society today is the topic of private gun ownership and gun control laws. This controversy has arisen mostly due to the different ways that the second constitutional amendment is interpreted. The amendment states that "a well regulated militia‚ being necessary to the security of a free state‚ the right to the people to keep and bear arms‚ shall not be infringed" (Lott‚ 2000). On one side of the issue‚ there are those
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The issue is whether or not it is unconstitutional to have gun control in the United States. I think we shouldn’t have gun control but support gun rights. Gun control would be against the common good. If the government took away the guns from citizens we would have no way of protecting ourselves. People wishing to use guns to harm people could smuggle them in from other countries and lie about having them. Therefore if a citizen had a gun‚ that citizen could hypothetically stop the other person from
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Gun Control I. Did you know that according to Gun Owners of America which I accessed on April 5‚ 2014‚ the governments of the world slaughtered more than 170 million of their own people during the 20th century? A. That same article that I accessed on April 5th goes on to say that the vast majority of those people had been disarmed by their own governments prior to being slaughtered. B. Though assuming that our government is disarming us to eventually overthrow us is a bit much for most to even
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Gun ownership has the capability to positively assist a home occupant during a burglary. A burglar can be convinced to leave the home in the presence of a gun-wielding occupant‚ or a gun-owner can exercise his right to self-defence and harm the intruder‚ effectively ending the home invasion. With this in mind‚ it can appear to be a good idea to own a gun in the event of home invasion. But does this really mean that owning a gun will protect from home invasion? Or that having a gun at the time of
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A Shocking Scenario: Analyzing a Gun Control Advertisement In the spring of 2013‚ GREY Advertisement agency released a series of advertisements for the organization “Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America.” These public service announcements‚ placed on billboards around the country‚ are intended to “reflect the absurdity of our country’s current lax laws and weak regulation of guns‚” (Huffington Post‚ 2013). Contrasting a piece of candy to an assault rifle‚ one image uses emotion and logic
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