November 2009 Molly Ivins and Her Crazy Gun Theory Molly Ivins‚ in her Op-Ed called‚ “Get a Knife‚ Get a Dog‚ but Get Rid of Guns‚” argues for an absolute abolition of civilian gun ownership. Ivins begins her argument with a sarcastic attitude toward gun laws in the United States. She calls herself “not antigun‚” but immediately announces that she is “proknife.” She seems at first to offer an unbiased view‚ claiming not to want to outlaw guns completely‚ but when she admits to
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Teachers in 18 states are now carrying guns in school! After a recent study in the news that left many people questioning about‚ whether teachers should carry guns at school or not. My opinion is that they should not bring guns to school because it could accidentally go off. If this occurred it could affect a child’s learning long term and their home life. This could also attract teachers for the wrong reason. What if the gun goes off? There are many things a gunshot could do‚ the harm
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Children should play with toy guns because this practice can teach gun safety‚ encourage imagination‚ and reduce the fascination and allure of real guns. Parents are becoming increasingly more hesitant to allow their children to play with toy guns. Many parents believe that letting a child play with toy weapons will lead to that child being prone to violence. Contrarily‚ studies have been unable to identify a link between toy gun toting children and violent crimes. This argument is unfounded‚ but
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Over the recent year’s gun violence have took a major turn for the worse‚ from school shootings‚ to terrorist attacks and the threat levels are increasing daily. Families are frightened to leave the comfort of their own home and with such a rapid increase in gun violence some people are scared to go home knowing anything can happen. I complexly understand some individuals collect guns for collection purpose or as a hobby but are l was to earn a gun are completely screw and in five quick minutes
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Should guns be banned in the US Guns dont kill people‚ people kill people. Guns are the only way to protect a civilian from thugs around the world. America is also one of the most dangerous places due to thugs and mafia gangs who are the criminal minds of murder and shootouts‚ they have access to any gun you can think of. How would you feel if you got in the way of one of these gangs? you need gun to protect yourself. You wouldnt want to end up dead do you? i strongly believe that all civilians
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you 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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People Should Be Allowed To Own Guns Nowadays‚ many countries allow people to own guns. As we know that people have different physique‚ no matter how hard you do still cannot change of postnatal factor. Guns are useful‚ otherwise it won’t work effectively. Police wouldn’t want to carry them around. If everyone can have a gun‚ it can make up of weakness of the human body. Evildoers have guns‚ we will get trouble. But for good people‚ we can protect ourselves. Because of gun‚ stronger person dares not
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Guns in classrooms? Yes. Guns at sporting events? No. The administrators use these as examples of places that will be marked armed and unarmed zones at the University of Texas. Fifty years ago the first mass shooting at an American college took place. The University of Texas experienced a mass shooting when a student shot 45 people‚ killing 14 of them‚ from the clock tower (Gubler). In the New York Times article “Philosophizing With Guns” Simone Gubler talks about the “campus carry” bill that will
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English 120 26 March 2012 Why a Peaceful Woman Carries a Gun Linda M. Hasselstrom made a very convincing argument in her essay‚ A Peaceful Woman Explains Why She Carries a Gun in the book Patterns for College Writing. Hasselstrom strongly believes women should carry pistols to defend themselves from being attacked or raped. She learned that any female can expect to be criminally assaulted‚ and women have a fifty-fifty chance of being raped‚ robbed or attacked. Hasselstrom’s essay had some
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I opened It and it was a gun I was really nervous because I have never shot a gun before but my step dad said if I follow the directions it would be ok. So the next day we went to the store to get some clays so that I could practice because I have never shot want one. So we got a box of clays and my stepdad said that we could not shoot it today because we did not have a clay shooter.I was sad at first‚ but then I got over it so I could not wait to shoot my shoot my gun. So we all went
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