Every seven and a half hours a child or teen is killed by a gun by either accident or suicide (Victim). Around the world guns and the way they are being portrayed through technology are starting to become more and more advanced. This creates openings for guns to enter lives‚ in which they may have no business in being in. One great examples of one of theses lives would include the life of a young teen or child. The outcome of these situations can occasionally end very badly for all the people in
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become increasingly insignificant. Many believe that stricter gun control policies should be enacted. However‚ stricter policies will not ensure a safer environment in the community. Gun control laws do not prevent crime. They simply restrict citizens from gaining easy access to a firearm. While this would make it more difficult for citizens to be in possession of a gun‚ it does not completely restrain their ability to have one. Guns can be accessed through a variety of methods‚ including through
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Introduction Having gun control I see it as taking a bit of our freedom away because having control over our own weapons is part of having freedom. Just because certain people don’t know how to use their freedom of having control over their own weapons doesn’t mean everyone else should have their freedom of gun control taken away. I know many major and world changing accidents have happened because of guns but I don’t believe that guns kill people. People are the ones who need to learn how to
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great nation. In India‚ 480 million are less than 19 years old. India has 20% of the world’s children. [1] The recent years have seen an unprecedented increase in youth violence‚ often lethal violence‚ all around the nation. Anecdotal evidence of increase in violence by young people against women and old people‚ of road rage‚ of violence in schools‚ and other violent actions to get whatever they want is alarming. This "epidemic‚" as many social analysts called it‚ caused serious concern to both parents
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have been seeking out reforms in our nation’s gun laws so that they may feel safer inside their homes and inside the nation’s schools. Unlike some countries‚ America cannot be considered “harsh” with its gun laws‚ nor can it be considered weak when compared to still other countries. When looking to reform our gun laws‚ our nation should revise and remodel our laws after countries with stronger guns laws‚ such as Switzerland and Canada. With 3.84 gun related deaths per 100‚000 people‚ and only
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Guns Allowed In School Buildings “On [ Feb. 1]‚ Price Middle School located in Atlanta fell victim to yet another shooting in a rash of shootings that seem to be sweeping across the nation in the midst of the gun control debate” ( Landry). How can people make the choice to kill dozens of innocent children who just wanted to go to school and live their lives? More and more people are making these horrible decisions every day. There is one good solution to this epidemic‚ but parents and school
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Violence in the 20th century has proven to be an increasing social problem. Younger and younger youths are expressing themselves by committing the most heinous crimes. With this rise in youth related violence‚ society as a whole has begun to point the finger. Everyone and everything under the sun has been placed under the proverbial spotlight. Our quickness to place the blame and resolve the problem promptly has resulted in blaming one major aspect of society in America. The Entertainment Industry
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of us assume we must either oppose or support gun control. Not so. We have a range of alternatives. Even this way of speaking oversimplifies our choices since there are two distinct scales on which to place alternatives. One scale concerns the degree (if at all) to which guns should be abolished. This scale moves from those who want no abolition (NA) of any guns‚ through those who want moderate abolition (MA) - to forbid access to some subclasses of guns - to those who want absolute abolition (AA)
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Amendment regulates militia and the right to bear arms. There has been a nationwide debate on gun control recently after the mass shooting in the Auroa theatre in Colorado. Some people believed that the more people owning guns‚ the more crimes will have in our daily life. They are also trying to connect Canada’s low crime rate with the prohibition of owning a gun in their law. They also believe if we outlaw guns in the US‚ we should also see a significant drop in murder and crime rate. But in reality
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Even though manufacturers claim that the Taser guns are a safe and non-lethal tool. Amnesty International disagrees and has taken measures in suspending its use or at least restricting the types of situations in which they could be used to the extreme. According to statistics‚ between 2001 and 2008‚ 334 people have died in the U.S after being struck by Tasers. In August of 2011 there was another incident of a student who died as a result of a Taser gun shock in Cincinnati. Everette Howard‚ who was
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