Guns can make a major difference in the way we live our daily lives. The difference that the guns make‚ is decided by who has the guns and who does not have guns. How we keep the guns away from the bad people and give them to the good people is the problem. America’s background checks are outdated and we don’t even require some sort gun safety course or anything. In America our background checks are not thorough at all. The current system runs through the police database to check and see if there
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Persuasive Essay on Gun Control What would be going through your mind if you were in a restaurant and a mad man came in and began slaughtering people right and left including you family (Swasey 174)? Would you be thinking if they would ban guns this would have never happened? Probably not! What you were probably thinking is if I had a gun on me I could protect not only my family but also the others being slaughtered. This same scenario was on the mind of Suzanna Gratia as written in Elizabeth Swasey
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rights‚ and in modern America are under constant magnification. This magnification brings along with it a question regarding the relationship between freedom and safety‚ and whether Americans should give away their freedom to protect the lives of others. Across the globe citizens are forced to make a decision regarding the balance between safety and freedom‚ and in America‚ many are undecided or strongly in defense of either side. A conclusion can be made that many people are extremely conflicted on the
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ProCon.org recently featured an article that studied gun control. “Stricter state gun laws associated with fewer gun deaths‚ study finds.” The article discussed gun control laws in states with stricter laws tend to have lower rates of gun related homicides‚ and a suicide (ProCon para. 1) Gun control in the United States is becoming a wide spread issue and is becoming a problem everywhere. Although I am living in a city with uprising crime that has been skyrocketing over the years‚ I wasn’t aware
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drastically increase with millions of gun related deaths annually‚ yet given the right training‚ skills‚ and a sound minded person a gun is often one of the greatest assets to have for protection. In the U.S. Constitution the right to bare arms is a liberty given to those citizens who qualified to do so under their first amendment rights. Many people are torn about the right to bare arms and some lobby more increasingly by the days to have more laws to further restrict gun laws. On the other side of the
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with a gun. On average there are about 12‚000 gun homicides a year in the United States. The second amendment should be revised due to the gun violence in America being a severe problem. The homicide rate in America is at an all time high. Accidental deaths of children due to unattended guns. The suicide in america committed with a firearm is becoming a severe problem. There is an increasingly high crime rate committed with a firearm in America. With the increase of states implementing gun ownership
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several of paragraphs I am going to explain to you why guns are harmful to people. The first paragraph is about how they kill people. The second will contain why people use them in the wrong way. The third is about how kids think they are toys. And the last one is about how everybody has to have one. Guns can kill people whether they wanted it to happen or not. Sometimes you just cannot help when the gun goes off. People kill people with guns on the daily bases out of anger or revenge. I can say
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Owning guns is not our main concern. Sure‚ owning guns can be dangerous‚ but not owning guns denies people a sense of safety‚ and makes it seem like they can’t protect themselves. Also‚ “The Second Amendment of the US Constitution protects individual gun ownership”(Gun Control‚procon.org)‚ which means‚ if you take away our guns‚ then you are going against the United States Constitution. That is scarier of a thing than a shooting. Yes‚it would be scary right then‚ but going against the US Constitution
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Gun Control is a huge issue in the United States. It was declared in our constitution in the 2nd amendment that we have the right to bear arms. Every person is entitled through the second amendment to legally own and use fire arms. There are many issues that have come up with gun control: conceal and carry‚ semi-automatic weapons‚ and gang violence. Many people in this beautiful country we call the United States‚ feel like they need to take away the right to bear arms. To me I believe this is wrong
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like millions of Americans‚ you’ve either recently purchased‚ or you’re seriously thinking about purchasing your first gun. Whether you decided that you’d like to go to a range to try out a few different types of firearms to see what works best‚ or you are trying to maximize your skill level. You will find that having a little instruction will go a long way in not only safety‚ but it’s always a lot more exciting when your hitting the target more often. Having an experience mentor you trust or
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