Control Generally‚ firearms are clustered into three broad categories; handguns‚ shotguns‚ and rifles. Basing on data production from the manufacturers of firearms‚ roughly there are 371 million firearms privately owned by citizens and domestic law enforcement in the United States (The National Research Council‚ pg. 57). The American persistent gun culture results from its revolutionary roots‚ colonial history‚ the second amendment‚ and frontier expansion. According to the second amendment; “A well-regulated
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The killing and torturing‚ emotional as well as physical‚ is causing pain to those who need it the least. We believe that gun control laws are too flexible around crimes‚ and is almost never used for its real purpose; self defense. First of all‚ the amount of people who actually use this law for its purpose is microscopically small! You could say that pretty much no one uses guns for self defense‚ and is actually quite the contrary. They use it to harm others‚ instead of defending themselves against
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you avoid before beginning your research project is beneficial in eliminating time spent on specific topics that cannot be resolved due to personal opinions. However‚ before reading the enlightening information concerning gun control‚ this was one of the several issues that I wanted to research and find data regarding students being allowed to carry weapons such as a firearm on college campuses. Furthermore‚ after reading lesson four and discovering that gun control is one of those topics that I
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Isabella Correa Pr. ENC 04/16/2013 Research Paper: Gun Control Restrictions According to the 2010 statistics presented by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime‚ (UNODC‚) in Great Britain‚ Sweden‚ Switzerland‚ Australia‚ Canada‚ and Japan‚ a total of 294 people were murdered by firearms. In the United States more than 22‚000 people were murdered by firearms by the end of the year. The difference that exists among these countries and The United States is that in these countries
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Imagine an intruder entering your residence‚ picking the lock and invading your families’ personal and private place‚ your home. Now‚ remember that your father has a rifle locked away in a case in the back of the bedroom closet. You barely hear him as he removes the firearm from its resting place and loads a cartridge until to action‚ perhaps it’s your imagination. Yet‚ you can hear the intruder passing through the house as the eerie silence of time speeding by launches your senses into a fit of
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Argumentative Gun Control Paper The issue of Gun Control has been on the minds of humans for hundreds of years. How do we protect ourselves and our loved ones? How do we keep such a dangerous weapon out of the hands of the wrong person? Inside the Second Amendment we are granted the right to Bear Arms. Having that amendment gives each person the ability to carry a weapon if they choose‚ so how can we control who should or shouldn’t carry? According to an article evaluated from Kovandizic
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Where Does the Answer Lie with Gun Control? Death‚ violence‚ individual rights‚ crime‚ and cause are many words that arise when researching the controversial topic of gun control. This issue revolves around the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution that states: “A well regulated Militia‚ being necessary to the security of a free State‚ the right of the people to keep and bear arms‚ shall not be infringed.” (U.S. Constitution. Amend. II‚ Sec. 1.). Is there a black and white answer
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Gun Control Creates A Safe World Gun control is a controversial and divisive issue in our routine life‚ not only in the United States‚ but also all over the world. Basically‚ gun control refers to governmental efforts to limit or restrict the production‚ sale‚ possession and use of guns by private citizens. Some people believe that it is necessary that federal and state laws allow citizens to purchase and possess guns‚ or even actively require adult citizens to maintain weapons in their house‚ and
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feels the necessity to have a certain control over guns in the country. President Barack Obama tried to introduce in congress a universal background check that could not pass. Why Congress could
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Restriction of Gun Laws Having less guns on the streets should make people safer. Most people believe that would be a reasonable way to protect innocent people from being killed or hurt from someone with a gun. This argument would make perfect sense if everyone was a law abiding citizen. Unfortunately that is not the way the world is. Statistics show that areas that have stricter gun laws‚ actually have a higher rate of crime involving guns‚ whereas areas that have less gun laws have less
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