In the Bloomberg Businessweek article ’Guns Don’t Kill People‚ Gun Culture Does’‚ author Charles Kenny‚ a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development‚ posted his opinion on the gun control debate. Kenny states "Even today‚ the strongest relationship to homicide rates around the world involves overall levels of economic development‚ inequality‚ and social cohesion rather than gun prevalence." However‚ the author continues with a contradiction of that statement‚ writing "Yet‚ if you restrict
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Danielle Delmonte Ms. Therriault English 3 18 November 2013 Smoking Gun Imagine a world that is smoke free. Everyday people are dying or being hospitalized for years of smoking. No one is taking this situation seriously. Company owners think if they just make a few places smoke free it is going to fix everything‚ but it will not. Smoking cigarettes is extremely dangerous. Smoking Cigarettes should be made illegal. They are harmful to the human body and will destroy in a slow process.
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The culture of violence affects America. The neoliberal logic of a gun culture atomizes individuals‚ and has historically abrogated their roles as common citizens. The gun rights lobby has perpetuated an ableist discourse to shift responsibility away from the gun culture. It is not messed up people that will kill with guns‚ but guns that and a reasoning system that tells people to deal with their own problems that kills. It is guns that perpetuate the pick yourself up by the bootstrap logic‚ that
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Gun control laws should not be strengthened‚ instead they should be enforced. Instead of making it harder for law-abiding citizens to obtain guns‚ guns should be taken away from unstable individuals or people who should not have guns like criminals. The first reason why gun control should not be strengthened is that citizens have the right to own guns; it is one of those entitlements that makes the United States different from other countries. Secondly‚ criminals are criminals and that is why they
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How many more senseless deaths by guns do we need in the world? I disagree with the laws that allow private individuals to own a gun. It is way too easy for private individuals and especially criminals to get guns. I believe that only law enforcers such as police‚ fireman‚ F.B.I agents‚ and the military should be permitted to have guns. It is the job of law enforcers to protect and serve our communities and as such‚ they need guns in order to do their jobs. They are loyal and trustworthy people
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States (The National Research Council‚ pg. 57). The American persistent gun culture results from its revolutionary roots‚ colonial history‚ the second amendment‚ and frontier expansion. According to the second amendment; “A well-regulated militia‚ being necessary to the security of a free state‚ the right of the people to keep and bear Arms‚ shall not be infringed.” (Kalesan‚ Bindu‚ et al.‚ pg. 1847). Advocates of further gun control policies suggest that the Second Amendment
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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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Gun Control: Overview The issue of gun control has been debated for a long time‚ probably ever since they were invented. The gun is a small‚ rather easy to obtain‚ weapon that is lethal if used in the right (or wrong) way. This makes the gun an extremely dangerous factor in our lives. If used improperly‚ a gun could be lethal to not only the target‚ but the user as well. The availability of guns has sky rocketed in the past decade or so‚ and the immense population of guns in our society make it
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No to Gun Control; Yes to the Second Amendment The second amendment of the constitution states‚ “A well regulated Militia‚ being necessary to the security of a free State‚ the right of the people to keep and bear Arms‚ shall not be infringed” (cornell.edu). The purpose of our founding fathers making this was to ensure the protection of the individual person. Banning semi-automatic weapons will have several negative effects on the well being of this country. The government cannot protect every
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right of the people to keep and bear arms‚ shall not be fringed” (Cohen 1). Gun control is an extremely controversial topic. With all the violence and trouble guns cause it is easy to want to take away guns and establish a more secure gun control law or act‚ but what would America be if Americans took away the very thing that helped build our country. Guns‚ all forms‚ are a major part of American History. If it were not for guns America may still be under European control. History is not the only thing
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