Christian Ethics Gun Control Gun Control in Schools After the recent Sandy Hook Elementary shooting up in Connecticut‚ where twenty children and six adults were shot‚ the issue of gun control has been a much debated topic. Should be increase gun control? Should we allow teachers to carry firearms? What side effects will this have on our country? These are all questions that are raised when we think about gun control. There are pros and cons to both sides of gun control. Throughout this paper
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Why Teachers Should Have Guns at School Children at Sandy Hook Elementary School were helpless when Adam Lanza walked in with three guns and shot twenty kids and six adults. As a result for not letting teachers carry some type of weapon‚ teachers and student are getting shot. The only Thing that students have for defense is any object that is in that room‚ but that doesn’t compare to a gun. Biden heads a panel to Obama for more control on the guns. Just because we have gun control‚ it won’t keep
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Christmas holidays approach in eleven days and they were to begin their holiday break. Their lives and small community know as Sandy Hook would be forever changed only in matter of minutes. A young man named Adam Lanza walked into the school and killed over twenty students and six staff members and wounded two people. Every parent worst nightmare came true for the parents at Sandy Hook elementary school. The whole nation watch in horror as details began to emerge about the deadly shooting. Many questions
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transfer‚ possession‚ modification‚ and use of firearms. High rates of homicides by way of firearms is the main reason why government officials are pushing for harder gun control measures. When you see news reports of school shootings such as Sandy Hook or Columbine‚ or the ridiculously number of high homicides by firearms‚ one can see why Congressional and government leaders are trying enact policies that limit gun control throughout the United States. States have various restrictions on the
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“Somewhere in America there’s a child holding a copy of The Catcher in the Rye and there is a child holding a gun. But only one of these things has been banned by their state government‚ and its not the one that can rip through flesh. It’s the one that says “F*** you” in more pages than one” (Somewhere in America 1). This poem perfectly explains the ‚ Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America‚ ad named “Choose One” about the way the government has dealt with children’s safety. These desperate
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voted the Most Likely to Commit Murder.” She also explains the most recent shooting that happened at Sandy Hook Elementary. The shooter‚ Adam Lanza‚ first shot his mother on the morning of December 14‚ 2012 because she supposedly was trying to have him committed to a mental institution‚ which is what triggered his rage. After he cold-bloodedly killed his mother‚ Lanza progressed on to Sandy Hook Elementary and proceeded to murder twenty children and six administrators. Coulter is a conservative
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Gun control has been an ongoing issue in the United States for the past few years due to the increase of gun related deaths such as school and mass shootings. There have been debates on whether to eradicate firearms from Americans. These ideas were addressed by the United States government and gun control advocates who are for stricter gun control. On the other hand‚ people who oppose the policy feel that their 2nd amendment rights will be violated just because there are reoccurring school and mass
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personnel. The big question is what is the cause of these shootings? A big factor in school shootings are mental illnesses. Most people who have committed a school shooting were proven to be mentally ill. For example‚ Adam Lanza‚ the shooter of Sandy Hook was mentally ill (Vartabedian). Many people will jump to the conclusion that all school shooters are “mentally ill” or have a mental sickness. For anyone to be able to walk into a school and pull a trigger‚ there obviously isn’t something right
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Many people in the United States have different opinions when it comes to gun control. Some of them like the idea of being able to carry a weapon on your person as long as you have been licensed to do so. Others feel that this is a bad decision and that no one except law enforcement and military should carry guns. My personal opinion on the matter is that if the person has legally obtained a concealed hand gun license through their state then they have the right to carry a weapon. When you sit back
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Criminal Justice reports 294 attempted or actual school killings with at least two victims over 250 years in the U.S. and 37 other countries.’ I agree‚ and understand these numbers are outrageous and something has to be done. In recent history Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown‚ Connecticut‚
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