2A: Gun Control in the US Can US gun addiction be controlled? By Mathilde Ahrenkiel‚ mathildeahrenkiel@gmail.com‚ Capus News‚ 20.09.2013 “I will try very hard”1 those are the words of President Obama as he spoke at the National Rifle Association Campaign on gun control in January 2013. His words underline the problem of a nation of enthusiastic gun owners‚ who are not afraid of teaching their children how to use a gun and to shoot to protect their freedom
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well-being of their country over the rights and freedom of its individual citizens. These governments enact tight legislation to lower the crime rate‚ while limiting the individual person’s rights and freedom. Their philosophy is that people with more individual freedom are able to and therefore usually commit more crime than people who have less freedom. However‚ there is a thin line between laws that are based on common sense and laws that infringe on the necessary rights of the individual. This line is
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Gun Control How many people do not fear being attacked by someone with a gun? The truth is that most people do share a fear of guns. This is the result of the lack of control over the possession of a gun. Anyone can get their hands on a gun no matter what they intend to use it for. Almost 30‚000 people die each year in a gun related incident (Soyer 1). People are not careful enough in deciding where they place their weapon or how they use it. Because of its poor gun control system‚ America is
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Rafael Ramos May 14‚ 2011 Gun Control The issue of gun control and restrictions is an ongoing debate in America that just cannot be settled. It is a pressing issue because it deals with the Second Amendment of the United States Bill of Rights. Do we abide by what our founding fathers’ laws? Or do we adapt our Bill of Rights to fit how society works today? It is such an issue because we say that our country was founded on the constitution‚ yet we cannot decide whether or not to live by it
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What is Gun Control? Gun control is a controversial topic that not only the United States faces‚ but the entire world faces. Many nations either established a gun control policy or they don’t have one that is well put together. Studies have shown throughout the world gun control attempts to allow a safer environment for people‚ but there are still some places gun control is and isn’t tolerated. In the article " The Accessibility of guns protects lives" it describes the term gun control. Gun control
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Informative essay The United States is in a controversy of whether or not the Second Amendment is protecting our country or killing it. The United States owns approximately 250 million guns‚ nearly one for each citizen‚ and grows about 7 million each year. Experts believe that the Second Amendment in the Constitution is rational and legal‚ author of‚ Handgun Prohibition and the Original Meaning of the Second Amendment Don B. Kates states that the “Second Amendment protects an individual’s right to possess
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What would you say if you knew that there are more crimes with gun control than there is without it? Gun control is a terrible idea for society in so many ways that it’s not even funny. Because there will be those people out there that will figure out how to beat the system and keep guns in their possession‚ to harm a lot of people maybe even have a mass shooting. Well guess what and nobody else will have guns to protect their self’s or shoot that guy who’s start a mass shooting on a punch unarmed
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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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Will more stringent gun control laws create less crime? Will stiffer gun control keep known criminals from committing their awful acts? Gun Control is law designed to impose legal measures to license‚ control‚ or restrict the ownership of firearms by members of the public. That means the government’s only responsibility is and should be to determine which citizens are able to get a permit to own and carry a firearm. They should do background checks for any mental illnesses‚ past criminal activity
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Argumentative paper submitted to Professor M. Cotton | The interpretation of the Second Amendment The Right to bear arms | | By Dozetta M. Lewis | This | This paper is to give insight on the various Supreme Court case on the interpretation of the Second Amendment the right to Bear Arms and how it was interpreted to be fair and unfair. | The right to bear arms has always been a constitutional right Since 1791 . The Second Amendment of the Consttution of the United States of American readers . A well
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