major varieties of gun control laws appear to have no impact‚ with a few exceptions‚ on the types of violence which frequently involve guns? Many explanations are suggested by both our own results and those of prior research. First‚ some gun laws are intended to have their effects by reducing gun ownership levels‚ so some gun laws may fail because they do not achieve their proximate goal of reducing gun ownership (Table IVA). However‚ our results also generally indicate that gun prevalence levels
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Gun Violence More than 90 people are killed by guns every day in the United States. How can gun violence be stopped in order to keep people safe? People use guns for weapons which make communities with little security or police dangerous. Others‚ on the other hand‚ use guns for protection. Guns can be used for good but people take advantage of it and use it for harm. Guns cause a lot of violence in the US. In 2013‚ there were 33‚636 gun deaths in America. This includes suicide and shootings. Many
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Gun and Gun Control Course: BCOM/275 January 27‚ 2013 Instructor: Gail Zwart Gun and Gun Control‚ written in the New York Times on 1/25/13 The worldwide controversial topic of gun control has taken our nation by storm. The epidemic‚ as stated by our President has become a disturbing and mind blowing statistic. But I must say‚ gun violence has impacted out world since our fore fathers. But since our most recently and horrific active of gun violence the government has decided
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CJ 133 | Guns and Gun Control | Writing Assignment 6 | Katie Epps 1/18/2009 | Gun control has been one of the biggest topics facing our nation aside from abortion and homosexual marriages. There are so many different angles and arguments that surround it‚ its no wonder a definite decision can not be made. Violent crimes remain one of the most serious problems in the United States‚ in many of the violent crimes committed guns are used but an actual link between the two remains pretty
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might think that such a tragedy will never happen in our maple syrup loving country known as Canada‚ right? Well‚ that’s what I’ll be discussing today. Good morning honourable judges‚ teachers and my fellow students‚ today I’ll be talking about gun violence in Canada. Now‚ students‚ I would like for you to take a quick glance at your fellow peers for a moment. Most have you have been together as early as kindergarten‚ correct? You have
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The Cycle of Violence In his autobiography‚ Fist‚ Stick‚ Knife‚ Gun‚ Geoffrey Canada exposes the reader to numerous types of violence witnessed while growing up in South Bronx‚ a subaltern community in New York. The slum is full of lower class individuals who are in a constant struggle for power‚ acceptance and safety. The book begins by discussing his childhood and how he had to learn the codes and behaviors accepted in his neighborhood and his place in the hierarchy of the street. Each block
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Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice http://ccj.sagepub.com/ Peers and Gun Use Among Urban Adolescent Males : An Examination of Social Embeddedness Deanna L. Wilkinson‚ Marquette S. McBryde‚ Brice Williams‚ Shelly Bloom and Kerryn Bell Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice 2009 25: 20 DOI: 10.1177/1043986208328449 The online version of this article can be found at: http://ccj.sagepub.com/content/25/1/20 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com Additional services and
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would agree that something must be done‚ no one seems to have the answer at this point. Some gun control supporters believe that completely banning handguns is the best way to protect citizens. However‚ banning handguns fails to protect people because the laws are ineffective‚ banning handguns prevents people from an effective means of self-defense‚ and the laws do not solve the real problem‚ which is the gun owner. Simply banning handguns all together is ineffective‚ and that is the first
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handguns would decrease violence‚ as has been proven in the past by numerous laws. In addition‚ the mass killings that throw a blanket of loss and sorrow upon our nation can only be done with guns. Many people in the United States‚ believe that America needs to repeal the Second Amendment because the wrong people get their hands on deadly weapons causing unnecessary deaths to occur. Those who do not support gun control believe the solution is to allow everyone to have guns for self-defense. Consider
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In America today violence continues to 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
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