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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Modern issues essay Gun control is a controversial issue for a long time around the world‚ particularly in U.S. because of a lots of mass shooting in school and public places. The second Amendment of the U.S. constitution is one of the shortest in all of the bill of right‚ it was written by the time period of American’s birth and it is the spirit of self-defense that help the new citizens of U.S. win their own freedom from the British. But now as the gun shooting problem happening every day in America
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Gun Control. This has been a divisive topic for centuries‚ ever since the creation of guns in the late 1700’s. Many people see guns as their right and often point to the 2nd Amendment in the U.S‚ which gives all people and groups such as the NRA‚ the right to carry guns no matter what happens. This is a right which has been laid out and given to all Americans‚ along with freedom of speech‚ religion‚ the press‚ etc. But on the other hand‚ in the wake of mass shootings which have now become a trend
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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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about the various policies and proposals by the various candidates in this upcoming election. The main topic that developed my interest in politics was the response 1 on Gun control. I never knew what the second Amendment meant until I took this class. With the recent shootings that’s happening all over US‚ the issue on gun control has become an open subject to debate on. Being assigned this topic made me more familiar with the events that has been happening in the real world. With the unfortunate
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A controversial article that I am having an issue with is an article by Thomas Sowell‚ who is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution.2013 Creators Syndicate‚ Inc. “Do Gun-Control Laws Control Guns?”Sowell‚ 2013. According to this article the discussions on gun control are dominated by two factors: the National Rifle Association and The Second Amendment. But that the over all concerns is “whether gun-control laws actually reduce gun crimes in general or murder rates in particular”. However
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being necessary to the security of a free State‚ the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed” (Agresti‚ 2009‚ para. 2). Based on a simple reading of this‚ it would seem that people do have the right to own and use firearms. So why are so many people trying to ban guns? Maybe it is because they do not understand what the Second Amendment actually means. Maybe it is because the media only reports the crimes committed with guns and not the lives saved with them. What would
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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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What is gun control? Gun control is when the government puts rules and regulations on where one can bring guns. Governments also limit the amount of guns one owns. Guns are a way to protect our families‚ stop criminals‚ and a way to hunt to provide food for families. Some people abuse guns and bring harm to others which is horrible. There should not be a law on gun control. This law restricts those who own them to protect themselves and restricts them from having a firearm. Keeping guns in the
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“Four out of every 10 Americans own a gun. And nearly 3 out 4 believe that the Second Amendment guarantees an individual the right to have a firearm.” (Schwartz 2011 n.p.) Many Americans believe that concealed weapons are the main cause of violence. There have been many controversial‚ religious and political issues addressing gun control‚ concealed weapons and banning fire-arms in the U.S. that have been going on for many years. Gun Control is an action of the government that is suppose to reduce
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