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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Gun Violence Over the last years gun control has become a very widely debated topic. The city‚ county and state lawmakers seem to be having different stands about the public having easy access to guns. Adam Small states‚ “After centuries of relative obscurity‚ the Second Amendment has become the center of an intense academic and legal battle during the last twenty years” (1213). The supporters of gun control and its opponents both claim to have the best interest of this country’s citizens .However
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An Updated Background Check System Will Help Prevent Gun Violence Guns and Crime‚ 2012 Formed in 2006‚ Mayors Against Illegal Guns is a coalition of over 550 mayors who support reforms to fight illegal gun trafficking and gun violence in the United States‚ while still respecting the Second Amendment. The background check system designed by Congress in 1993 to prohibit dangerous people from purchasing guns is not working effectively. But with the enforcement of critical new regulations‚ the National
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World By resident Barack Obama wants to change the gun law to reduce the gun violence that has been troubling America for a long time. Obama wants to focus on gun sales‚ public health research‚ and school safety. Here comes the but how will America react to this? A Broken system You can go to your local supermarket and buy milk‚ ammunition‚ and a gun. This is not something that should not be on your grocery list
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Roxanne Walton Logic Prof. C. Van Youngman September 12‚ 2012 Gun Control-Affirmative America was founded on basic fundamental rights that are to govern a civilized society. When those rights are challenged by those same citizens‚ reform is imminent and necessary. As stated in the second amendment of the United States constitution‚ “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”. Enforced
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Colonial Latin America‚ the cultures socially‚ physically‚ and politically united to form a new society. The Spanish‚ Indians‚ and African slaves attempted to embed their homeland’s culture into this new society. This formed a clash of cultures because each came with its own set of norms. The go-betweens played a pivotal role during encounters between the cultures acting as interpreters and the Jesuits as Christian converters. As colonial Latin America society was forming and blending cultures‚ it strained
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Gun Control America in the past 10 years has experienced tragedy after tragedy. Most tragedies due to war‚ finances‚ and gun violence. After the more recent massacres‚ America must do something soon and effective. Strengthening gun security across the U.S. has been a debatable topic‚ which many are for as well as against. Some believe it isn’t the right time to discuss gun control after tragic events have occurred‚ emotions are so high. In response to that‚ when then? When should America find
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Gun Control‚ Why Too Much Is Bad Gun Control‚ Why Too Much Is Bad Controlling access to firearms will not make shootings happen less frequently. While the media prefers to report and sensationalize the shootings committed by ’loners who kept to themselves until they finally snapped ’‚ the average gun violence incident happens among the already present criminal element. Therefore‚ taking firearms out of the hands of law-abiding citizens will not only do nothing about criminal access
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The Influence of Black Slave Culture on Early America The Black slaves of colonial America brought their own culture from Africa to the new land. Despite their persecution‚ the "slave culture" has contributed greatly to the development of America’s own music‚ dance‚ art‚ and clothing. Music It is understandable that when Africans were torn from their homes and families‚ lashed into submission ‚ and forced into lifelong slave labor‚ they would be‚ on the most part‚ resentful and angry. Various
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ered Army service in the 1960s‚ it was renamed the M16‚ in accordance with the Army Nomenclature System. “AR-15” came to refer to the rifle’s semi-automatic civilian equivalent. From 1994 to 2004‚ AR-15-style rifles were subject to the now-expired Federal Assault Weapons Ban. Since then‚ the rifle and others like it have become tremendously popular. Last month‚ I estimated that upward of 3.5 million AR-15-style rifles currently exist in the United States. People like the rifle because it is modular
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