educational issues teachers‚ school administrators‚ parents‚ and students face each and every day ranging from acceptable dress codes to Common Core standards to teacher assessments to effective sex education‚ but none as life threatening as the issue of gun control. Many schools across the nation have been the unfortunate victims of violent crimes. In 1999‚ 12 students and one teacher were fatally shot at Columbine High School in Colorado. In 2007‚ 32 college students were shot and killed at the Virginia
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make an optional shooter think twice before attacking the school. The people who watch the cameras can alert the campus police that the active shooter had a gun and give his or her last location on the school campus. Arming teachers with guns can lead to a decrease in active shootings at school sufficiently. Arming school teachers with guns can reduce many active shooting activities across USA school campus which can also save someone life from a
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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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1‚ 2012 Gun Laws and Violence Each year‚ a number of people die from guns. The popular saying is “guns do not kill people‚ people kill people” which is true; however‚ guns are used to aid in violence and many would argue that eliminating guns through stricter laws would decrease violence. As the number of gun owners in the world increases the government and its citizens would benefit from implementing stricter regulations regarding the safe keeping of guns in the home. The lack of gun safety results
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All around the world countries are continuing to enact gun control‚ Britain being a major progressive on the issue. The safety of others seems to be the end goal of limiting citizen access to weapons‚ in Europe these include knives and guns. In America this issue is harder to decipher‚ most likely due to the second amendment guaranteeing the right to bear arms‚ a regulation not available in other
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When discussing gun control and children safety we have to remember that there are many issues to take into account because the children are the most important topic. Question‚ are our children safe at school and are the teachers equipped to handle this kind of responsibility? The government thinks that if they take the guns away that this will solve the problem‚ when the real issue is how we stop the violence in America and at our schools. Let’s look at what the NRA is saying. First‚ they are
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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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changed forever when guns started being used for protection. The topic I will be arguing will be carrying a gun for protection. Some people believe this is a good thing and others think something needs to be done about it. The government should enforce a law that no citizen has the right to carry a gun for protection to ensure that all citizens are safe.Three reasons include citizen safety‚terrorism‚ and police safety. To wrap it all up‚ there are three main reasons using a gun for protection is a
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Australia has had severe gun laws since the year 1997 after the fatal massacre shooting in Port Arthur‚ executed by Martin Bryant‚ which resulted in the death of 35 people while injuring 23. There have always been low levels of violent crimes associated with firearms‚ particularly in the 20th century‚ yet because of their low priority; public concern levels remained very low. In the last 2 decades‚ the government has put in place strict gun laws following several high profile mass murders and a large
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Gun Control: Worse For Us Than We Know Almost everyone living in this country should have witnessed such debates. Some people might not have listened to a formal debate‚ but an informal gun control debate is being carried on by many groups and individuals. It is very unlikely that someone has not listened to one. Recall the occasions when you were traveling or waiting somewhere hearing the neighbors discussing gun control pros and cons. These conversations are also gun control debates in the wider
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