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    Trusting someone with a gun. Many kids‚ especially boys‚ learn to handle their problems with their hands‚ not their minds. Hence‚ the elementary school mantra‚ “Use your words.” Still‚ children generally make good use of good counsel. The NRA recommends that SROs be employed not only to serve as guards and law enforcers‚ but also to serve as educators and informal counselors within the school. Educators and counselors who are armed leaves us to question not only the adequacy of their training‚ but

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    There have been many incidents with guns on schools campuses in the past. There has been multiple school shootings at several big schools across the country. The reasons why they shouldn’t be allowed are: They put other students in harm‚ There have been multiple school shootings in the past‚ and They could be used in the wrong way. These are why guns should not be allowed at school. Guns have the ability to put the lives of innocent people in danger. Sometimes feelings have the ability to take

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    Where does power lie in Congress? Congress in the US is granted all legislative powers by the Constitution‚ the power to appropriate funds‚ regulate trade and commerce and to formally declare war. Although the President imposes his will on all of these activities Congress is still an extremely important and powerful body; arguably today it has a superior mandate as President Bush was elected on a popular minority and less recently. Congress is regularly re-elected (every two years) and because of

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    in the first paragraph are early Massachusetts settlers‚ Puritan dissenters. What does Hawthorne’s description of their clothing convey about their characters? They were very strict with everything they did‚ and everyone wore pretty much the same thing. 2.Why did these religiously oriented colonists establish a prison and a cemetery among their first public institutions? What do these institutions acknowledge about human

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    Guns have been a part of society for thousands of years. According to pbs.org the first recorded use of a firearm was in 1364(pbs.org) .They are used for a myriad of reasons. Some people use guns for protection from those who pose as a potential threat to their lives. Other people use guns as a toy which can result in accidental death;or time spent behind bars for using the gun to commit a heinous crime. There is currently a ton of controversy surrounding whether guns should or should not be banned

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    “[George] reached in his side pocket and brought out Carlson’s Luger; he snapped off the safety ‚ and the hand and gun lay on the ground behind Lennie’s back. He looked at the back of Lennie’s head‚ at the place where the spine and skull were joined...” (Steinbeck 105). In Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck‚ George makes the decision to shoot his best friend Lennie. Lennie is a mentally disabled man with hopes and dreams of owning a farm‚ and living off the fat of the land. George is the man who goes

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    think that a school is the safest place for a child to be. Sometimes this isn’t the case. In this speech‚ I will talk to you about how allowing teachers to carry concealed weapons will be a good idea. I will talk about the advantages of allowing teachers to carry a concealed weapon‚ how allowing teachers to carry concealed weapons is helping other countries‚ and why Gun-Free zones aren’t working. Let’s start with the advantages of allowing teachers to carry a concealed weapon. There are three

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    On average over 100‚000 people are killed by guns in murders‚ assaults‚ police intervention and accidents ("Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence."). Many people say that it isn’t the guns that kill people‚ it’s people‚ but this is incorrect because if people didn’t posses guns they wouldn’t be able to murder people in a simple quick way. The debate on the second amendment and gun control laws has been going on for the past couple decades in the United States. Recently deadly mass shooting have

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    George treatment did prove Lennie wrong. I don’t think that George acted mean but did act mean for the way of killing a guy. I think that Lennie got proven wrong that George would’ve done something wrong. Also in chapter six it stated that when Lennie put down the gun‚ "George looked down at the gun. ’’ So that one way to explain Lennie that George could’ve done something bad at the time but didn’t kept the conversation going. The imaginary rabbit was acting as himself and the rabbit would talk to

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    Gun Safety Children with parents who own fire arms should be taught how to act around‚ have self- control‚ and know the proper way to handle and control a fire arm. Knowing gun safety is very important part in a child’s life when their parents or legal guardian own fire arms‚ this is going to explain everything! There is a certain way to act around fire arms‚ there are many things to know and understand but the most important thing of all is to handle and treat all fire arms as if they are loaded

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