Gun Control in America On March 24‚ 1998‚ firing from the woods overlooking their school‚ 13-year-old Andrew Golden and 11-year-old Mitchell Johnson shot and killed four middle school students and a teacher and injured ten other students in Jonesboro‚ Arkansas. The two boys had a semiautomatic M-1 carbine with a large ammunition magazine‚ two other rifles‚ seven handguns and more than 500 rounds of ammunition which they took from the home of one of the boy?s grandfather‚ who had a large arsenal
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Gun Control Regulation The year 2012 was a horrific year for mass shootings in the United States. Americans were shocked by an April spree at a religious school in Oakland that killed seven‚ the brutal theater shooting in Aurora‚ Colorado‚ in July that killed 12‚ the Sikh Temple massacre in Wisconsin in August that claimed six lives‚ the September Minneapolis sign-plant slaughter of five‚ and most recently‚ the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown‚ Connecticut that took
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Police reports show that the two youngsters had an argument the previous day. A single shot was fired inside the classroom at Buell Elementary School around 10 a.m. The young boy said he brought the gun to school to frighten her but accidentally fired a shot. "We’ve had other schoolchildren take guns to elementary schools before but it never went this far with it. "Society refuses to take responsibility by locking up their armed weapons." Said by a schoolteacher. Since last year there have been
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Machine Gun Kelly was an American bootlegger‚ bank robber and kidnapper who made headlines in the 1930s. He was sentenced to life in prison along with wife Kathryn Kelly in 1933. Born on July 18‚ 1895‚ in Memphis‚ Tennessee‚ Machine Gun Kelly was a bootlegger‚ small-time bank robber and kidnapper who ranged through Tennessee‚ Mississippi‚ Texas‚ Oklahoma and New Mexico in the 1920s and ’30s. Beginning his criminal career as a bootlegger‚ he was caught in 1927 and subsequently spent a few months
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Were you aware that in the recent year of 2010‚ over thirty-one thousand Americans died because of guns? This would be equal to more than eighty-five deaths each day‚ three deaths per hour. What is the leading death in the major state of Wyoming you may ask? This would be guns. Have you ever believed that guns have gone too out of control in the US because of the lack of background checks? Gun control laws must be more powerful in the United States. This is because these laws play an extraordinary
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Illegal Immigration One of the most controversial political issues of today is that of illegal immigrants from Mexico. Immigration has been the source of a lot of controversial discussions in past years due in large part to the attacks on September 11th. Illegal immigration into the United States is a problem that should be stopped‚ or hardly saying reformed as it is unfair to Americans and to the people of the country from which they illegally immigrated. It is thought that the majority of illegal
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IS ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION BENEFICIAL TO THE ECONOMY? One of the biggest issues facing America today is the alarming number of illegal immigrants living in the United States of America. America‚ “the land of opportunity‚” the phrase became the national ethos for the opportunity for prosperity and success for this country. America‚ settled by immigrants who moved to America‚ worked in America‚ built their homes in America and became American citizens. As time moved forward laws were established because
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Running Head: RESTRICTIONS ON GUN OWNERSHIP Are there any Legitimate Restrictions on Gun Ownership? Steve PHI103: Informal Logic The Second Amendment of the United States Constitution gives the citizens of America the right of the people to bear arms. This was adopted with the rest of the Bill of Rights. However‚ with this being said there are people that take this right to heart‚ and they feel they should be able to have any gun they want. There are guns that are specifically designed
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less gun control we have will result in a decrease in murder rates. After analyzing the findings‚ the majority of the articles advocated that the correlation between gun control and murder rates is that the less gun control equals less murder rates. This is due to the fact that countries in the past have tried banning handguns but ended up with higher murder rates. An even more gun control ended up increasing the murder rates as well. In contrast‚ there are also countries that have low gun control
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California possesses nearly 32% of the illegal immigrant population in the United States. The debate of our border with neighboring Mexico has grown into one of the biggest issues facing the United States in the last few years. Unfortunately‚ there has been no reform in our border policy and as a result California citizens suffer more economic burden each year this problem continues. Education‚ medical care‚ and incarceration of illegal aliens are costing the California taxpayer
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