rationalize the need for more guns‚ an accurate tally of the number of guns in circulation is in order. The United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is a federally run program that protects American consumers against unreasonable risk of deaths or injuries associated with consumer products. The CPSC was created in the 1970’s along with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) as a protection from faulty and unsafe products
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Gun use in schools has been an issue on the face of our nation’s politics for the past few years. Many human rights activists and politicians have been calling for better gun control and have been trying to find ways to keep students more safe in schools after the dreadful shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary a few years ago. New thoughts have came up if you go through training and get a concealed weapons permit teachers and school faculty should be allowed to carry a gun as a measure of increased
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Bear Arms I believe that guns should not be banned in the US. “Guns don’t kill people‚ people kill people.” I am sure most of us have heard this saying at some point in our lives. Surely‚ it is a statement of the obvious‚ but the logic behind it rings true. It may seem rational to ban guns entirely to prevent people from killing‚ but it is not the guns themselves that are the problem. That is just a simple solution to a complex problem. The criminals who kill others are willing to break the law
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Firearms can be used in a positive setting‚ such as target shooting‚ hunting‚ self-defense‚ or recreation. On the other hand‚ a fatal gun accident often makes the front page of a newspaper and even the state and national news‚ especially when a child is involved. In most cases‚ children between the ages of zero to nineteen die due to an accidental gun shooting. Late teens who have committed suicide are the largest group of people who suffer from death of a firearm. In 2003‚ 7‚671 suicides were firearm
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English April 8‚ 2013 "Should Private Gun Ownership Be Banned?" Widespread gun ownership in a community could provide a general deterrent to criminal predation‚ lowering the risk to owners and non-owners alike. But widespread gun ownership could also lead to increased risks of various sorts‚ including the possibility that guns will be misused by the owners or transferred to dangerous people through theft or unregulated sale. Whether the social costs of gun ownership are positive or negative is arguably
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of gun ownership and gun violence is highly controversial and has become highly controversial since the recent multiple massacres/shootings in schools and theatres. Controversy ensues between individual beliefs of who can own guns and how to control gun violence. The recent massacres/shootings bring into stark‚ shocking reality that gun ownership isn’t as controlled as it should‚ leading to gun violence. As quoted from Steve Mostyn‚ a Texas trial lawyer‚ "Lemme tell you…I own thirty-five guns. You
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Critical Issues in Policing Paper Jimmy Bolden CJA/214 May 6‚ 2015 Sergeant Shantrice Murphy Critical Issues in Policing Paper In this paper I will be explaining critical issues in policing. I will address the following key aspects of policing activities and operations: The dangers of policing‚ less than lethal weapons‚ technology used in policing‚ issues of homeland security and law enforcement relationships‚ and one additional critical issue in policing that is of interest to you and with that
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Let Us Keep Our Guns! I don’t think that it is OK for the government to take our firearms away from us law abiding citizens. There are many reasons for us‚ as a free and undivided country‚ that I believe we should have the right to possess guns. First of all‚ it is in our constitutional amendments as Americans that we have the right to bear arms. Our second amendment states that we can and should not only own‚ but also carry our guns. People enjoy using firearms to hunt for sport and survival
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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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murdered with guns every day and 151 are treated for a gun assault in an emergency room. By looking at the statistic shown above‚ you can see how huge the number of people that are being killed everyday in America and how relevant this issue is today. As the years go by‚ it seems as though you hear more and more about gun violence‚ that it is sicken to ones stomach. It is impossible for one to turn on the news and not hear about some gun related crime from day to day. It seems as though guns have turned
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