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    people died after The Islamic state of Iraq attack on Paris. AK-47s were used‚ but France is one of the toughest gun control countries in the world. We should not implement stricter gun laws because The 2nd Amendment in the U.S. Constitution guarantees the right to bear arms and criminals don’t abide by the laws. The 2nd Amendment in the United States Constitution written in 1971 states‚ "A well-regulated militia‚ being necessary to to the security of a free State‚ the right of the people to keep

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    grab your gun and protect you and your children. Now if you were to take the gun out of the situation what would you have done? The intruder is already in your house where your kids sleep at night‚ and the police’s response time is not going to be fast enough. What if you were able to hide‚ well you can not hide forever and eventually he will find you. No matter what you think‚ or how you feel about guns; if you were to put yourself in that position. You would be very grateful for the gun that saved

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    School Gun Violence

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    Adolescents and Gun Violence Richard Moreno The University of Southern Mississippi Article Two: A Critical Reflection Exploring a different perspective on gun violence by adolescents‚ Richard E. Redding and Sarah M. Shalf explore the legal approaches for curbing student’s use of guns in their article The Legal Context of School Violence: The Effectiveness of Federal‚ State‚ and Local Law Enforcement Efforts to Reduce Gun Violence in Schools. This article not only examines both federal and state laws‚

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    While reading statistics on shooting and gun violence‚ I am flabbergasted. I am not ignorant to the fact that there is violence and a lot of it; however‚ I was not aware that 33‚880 people die from gun violence in one year. I was raised in a great environment growing up that was in a great part of town‚ which was safe. I did not have to worry about going outside to play and possibly getting shot wile I was outside. A lot of kids are not that luck. Every day on average‚ this is EVERY DAY‚ 48 children

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    One major domestic policy issue is the war of guns. The United States has the highest total guns in the world with a total of 270 million guns. The people’s rights to bear arms has been protected under the second amendment but unfortunately with this right‚ there has been a rise in gun deaths. Such incident can be seen in the Sandy Hook shooting- an elementary school massacre-. Not only that but there has been multiple mass shootings in the United States on December 2‚ October 1‚ August 8‚ July 23

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    Chicago Gun Violence

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    Chicago Gun Violence Chicago is always in the news nationwide and some people might wonder why. Chicago is well known for its crime. The city has been struggling with this problem for a while. The biggest problem that plagues Chicago is its gang and gun violence because too many people are dying due to it. Chicago has alarmingly high statistics when it comes to gun violence in comparison to other major cities. Although the crime rate is slowly dropping‚ too many teenagers and young children

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    Gun Control and Gun Violence Gun Control and Gun Violence “The Federal Bureau Investigation Uniform Crime Report involving firearms showed to be at sixty-seven point seven percent of the nation’s murders‚ forty-one point three percent of robberies‚ and twenty-one point two percent of aggravated assaults…From January 2012 to June 2012 there was an increase of one point nine percent violent crimes reported.” (FBI) There should be a balance between Gun Control and Gun Violence. Gun Violence will

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    According to Fagan (2002)‚ studied the policing of gun and youth violence‚ within eight cities. The article evaluates the eight cities’ policing innovations against gun violence‚ while concentrating on the three different approaches: reciprocal control‚ punitive legal control and “soft” legal control. Reciprocal control refers to making police and community groups mutually reinforcing in regards to crime control. Punitive legal control refers to crime control through vigorous law enforcement and

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    confirmation that a terrorist group has ever obtained‚ is about to get‚ or currently has a nuclear weapon‚ anxieties over that end-state have been converted into conclusions"(2012‚ p 10). I can understand wanting to have the same power as another country but I think that is where things get tricky. Look at the fact of gun control in America today. I have plenty of guns and I have always had access to them

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    Rhetorical Analysis Paper 2/20/14 Gun Shows The scholarly article “Gun Shows and Gun Violence: Fatally Flawed Study Yields Misleading Results” first appeared in the magazine American Journal of Public Health in 2010. It was co-written by Garen Wintemute‚ David Hemenway‚ Daniel Webster‚ Glenn Pierce‚ and Anthony Braga. In their Journal entry they aim to convince their readers that the widely publicized case study “The Effect of Gun Shows on Gun-Related Deaths: Evidence from California and Texas”

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