new proposed gun control laws in the aftermath of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton‚ Connecticut that occurred on December 14th‚ 2012. This incident claimed the lives of twenty 1st graders and six adults and has set the government in motion to try to prevent future acts of violence by strengthening gun control laws in the United States (Smith). This has been a topic that has been an extremely emotional debate with people on both sides unwilling to compromise. Gun advocates and
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Gun Control Many Americans believe that gun control is a good thing for the United States ‚but how much good can it really do? Although more gun control laws can reduce gun deaths and lead to fewer suicides‚ gun controls laws would not be a good idea for the United States because they violate the right to self-defense‚ put more criminals in business‚ won’t prevent criminals from obtaining guns or breaking laws and many other reasons. The first reason gun controls laws are not a good idea is because
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shootings. And I think regulation of guns is a necessary action that needs to be taken in order to save lives. Gun control is necessary in order to have a peaceful country and world. Guns are very powerful weapons‚ and they are way too easy to access nowadays in America. The United States has the highest gun ownership rate in the world‚ The U.S. has 88.8 guns for every 100 American residents‚ gun crime and murders had been increasing every year. Without gun control‚ many lives are being taken for unnecessary
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The issue of gun control has begun to become a big part of debates in the United States. A good bit of people believe there should indeed be stricter gun laws. These opinions are based off the amount of popular shootings in the United States over the past couple of years. In the year of 2016 there was a total of 58‚283 shooting incidents and only 385 of these were mass shootings. During the shootings about 15‚063 people died; 3‚321 of those who were killed were children (doc 1). A recent‚ well-known
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Gun Control America is the most well-armed country in the world. People are trying to infringe our right to bear arms. Why would they do such a thing? They can’t terminate or misuse the constitution. The constitution has been placed before us for many reasons and it should not be changed. People believe that guns are killing people and that they should be revoked from human possession. But does that mean that a spoon makes a person fat? Does that mean the utensil being used is the reason for bodily
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reduce access to guns. America has the highest amount of gun related deaths each year in the world. “In Germany 381‚ in France 255‚ in Canada 165 in the United Kingdom 68‚ in Australia 65‚ in Japan 39 and in the United States‚ 11‚127” (Moore Michael‚ 51:15-51:48). America has 270 to 310 million guns‚ which is 88.8 to every 100 people in America‚ which is the highest total and per capita number in the world (ProCon). The correlation between the number of people owning and dying from guns in the United
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2013 Ms. Sandi Greene Rhetorical Analysis- Gun Control- Rough Draft Gun Control laws have been discussed more and more now due to more recent tragedies because of gun violence. James Q. Wilson‚ previous a professor of Pepperdine University‚ UCLA‚ and an author of many public policy books‚ wrote and editorial letter trying to convince his intended audience that if the government passes more gun control laws it will not decrease the gun violence in America as much as society wants to believe
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The issue is whether or not it is unconstitutional to have gun control in the United States. I think we shouldn’t have gun control but support gun rights. Gun control would be against the common good. If the government took away the guns from citizens we would have no way of protecting ourselves. People wishing to use guns to harm people could smuggle them in from other countries and lie about having them. Therefore if a citizen had a gun‚ that citizen could hypothetically stop the other person from
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Gun Control Gun control is a very controversial topic‚ some people want it‚ and some people don’t. I’m going to tell you some of the reasons that create a valid argument for why there should be no gun control. Everyone needs protection‚ and guns provide that. If someone is breaking into your home‚ what do you reach for first? A gun is the most logical option‚ in most situations it’s either shoot or be shot. Would have those school shootings resulted in less violence if school staff would have
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One of the most conversed and debated issues in the Unites States‚ other than Donald Trump’s hair‚ is difficulty of gun control. Gun control is defined as "...laws or policies that regulate the manufacture‚ sale‚ transfer‚ possession‚ modification‚ or use of firearms...". These laws are ideally issued by governments to preemptively reduce armed crimes‚ though it has been shown to be one of the first acts of most rulers plunging into tyranny. In terms with the USA‚ there are primarily two sides of
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