...Gun Control Paper Gun Control has been an issue that has been brought to the public’s eyes in recent years. This main issue has been going on for many years, for example when John F. Kennedy was assassinated; it raised public awareness to the lack of control on sales and also possession of guns in America. Until 1968 guns were available over the counter in stores and through mail catalogs to just about any adult in America. This was an example of how loosely guns were regulated which bring us back to the issue of guns. The constitution tells us in the second amendment that we, as American Citizens, have the right to bear arms. But the government is trying to change that by regulating everything to do with owning a gun. My stance: Gun control is just another way for the government to get into our personal lives. Gun violence is a common thing in America and it needs to be stopped some say. For example, Susan Milligan says this, “Opponents of any kind of gun restrictions argue that they are meaningless, since criminals by definition don't follow the law, and therefore won't allow gun laws to hamstring their criminal behavior. That's true. But gun violence isn't only committed by classic criminals, as recent gun-related tragedies show.” Now she argues that all of gun violence, well the majority, is because of criminals which bring us to background checks. When a person buys a firearm they go through a process of steps to make sure that they are capable of buying a firearm...
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...I've never really been into politics. When I was a kid I liked who my parents liked, hated who my parents hated, and really couldn't have cared less about who won the election. I simply wasn't interested. As an adult I've started paying a little more attention in politics, but not too much. So you shouldn't be surprised to hear that digging up political issues in both America and Japan wasn't as easy as it sounds. Not for me, anyway. I was told to try to pick topics that I know something about, and that led me to the first political issue that both countries face: unemployment. The United States' unemployment rate is, as you probably know, pretty high. In February of 2010, just one month ago, America's unemployment rate was 9.70 percent (TradingEconomics). That's just shy of it's ten-percent unemployment rate a month prior. I was included in that unemployed ten-percent. Having worked for Sprint for a year and a half, my whole branch was outsourced and laid off last June. Getting a new job was nearly impossible, and I found myself surviving on the unemployment benefits provided to me by our government. Before I knew it those benefits ran out, conveniently around Christmas time. And even though I was given a ten week extension thanks to President Obama, I realized that I couldn't live off of those benefits forever. By definition, unemployment is “the percentage or number of people who are involuntarily unemployed” (Dictionary.com). Every major country has it's own unemployment...
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...In the United States, gun control has been one of the most debated topics. This debate has shown to be social, political and economic effects of firearms. This issue has also caused an economic issue to the the United States, and this is also part of the debate if gun control should be accepted. The economic issue of gun control has also occurred and with the support of these statistics, the debate won’t have the ability to come to an end due to the support of this type of information. One part of the economic issue is the medical coverage of injuries and deaths because of guns. According to Natasha Bertrand of Business Insider, she states “American taxpayers pay roughly $12.8 million every day to cover the cost of gun related deaths and injuries”. This is showing how people of America are paying taxes due to the act that people are either getting injured or dying because of guns. A pro to situation would be the United States of America is receiving money from people so that the U.S doesn’t go completely in...
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...Is it possible that guns are the cause for all the violence and murders in America? Remember the tragedy that took place on December 14, 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, when Adam Lanza opened fire and fatally shot twenty children and six adults. What about the event that took place just six months before that in a theater in Aurora, Colorado? On July 20, 2012, James Holmes open fired during a shooting scene in The Dark Night Rises. His actions had killed 12 people and injured 58 others in the meantime. Saying guns are the cause of these shootings, is like saying that the planes that crashed into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, were the cause of all those deaths, and that the planes momentarily crippled our nation. Even though changes in gun laws are necessary; Limiting magazine capacity, conducting background checks and reinstating the Assault Rifle Ban will not directly affect gun violence in America. Gun control controversies are not something that has just come about in the past few months. America has dealt with gun control issues for decades, as well as anti-gun groups that want to disarm America. In 2009 before Barack Obama got sworn into office for a second term, gun sales were on the rise around the country. Gun sales continued to rise mostly out of fear that once in office, Barack Obama would promote legislation to disarm the American citizens. In a news conference Mr. Obama stated, “Gun-owning Americans do not need to rush out and...
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...Student’s name Professor’s name Course number Date Gun Control: Stricter Gun Control Laws The United States has fallen victim of crimes that heavily involves firearms and ammunitions. As a result, firearm control in the United States of America has happened to be a disputable issue over recent years, particularly in light of the late occasions of the Sandy Hook Elementary school, Northern Arizona University, Texas Southern University, and other numerous shooting incidents in American institutions. Gun control policies consist of laws and regulations that prevent citizens from owning illegal firearms (Carroll, 86). Also, the policies and regulations presented in the Gun Control Laws spreads it effects to the American citizens that manufacture, transport, possess, modify, and use any firearm. Some of the laws have very strict boundaries and limits on gun usage and possession. Some oppositions debate that the gun control policies do not provide protection to innocent civilians or the public. The pervasive gun ownership only increases the number of gun-related incidents in the United States of America. Opponents of the gun control law maintain an argument that the policies and regulations present in the gun control laws do not reduce crimes such as murder, suicide, and injuries that are related to illegal ownership of guns and ammunitions. Additionally, other oppositions argue that the regulations and policies in the gun control laws have a tendency to violate rights of individuals...
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...Gun Control in America Gun Control in America has led to many deaths nationwide. Every day we lose thousands of people lives that have been killed by guns. This whole gun control system that we have today in america has not seem to decrease the violence but increase it, since many criminals find a way to get a hold of a firearm. The gun violence we are having is created because of the lack of politics being careless for their people's safety, by the regulations on gun control, and how criminals have access to guns. The law was introduced back in 1934 when the federal government started its gun control policies in order to stop gang violence which was called the National Firearms Act of 1934. Ever since then it has not helped stop the violence and it seems that the issue has grown over the years and it is now a major problem. When the issue really struct the people was when there was school shootings, which really impacts america by making the school safety a failure since criminals enter heavily armed to a school campus.One major school shooting was “two high school teens Eric Harris, 18 and Dylan Klebolod, 17 had killed 13 people and wounded 20 more before commiting suicide on April 20, 1999 at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado” (History.com staff). The crime was...
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...Gun Control what’s The Point Sondra Miller Dr. Kimberly Stanley December 8, 2013 Gun control in America is a debate that is a constant concern about the 2nd Amendment or the right to bear arms. Having the freedom to carry a gun is a very controversial issue in society today. There are many people who feel that guns has been a problem and part of the reason there is so much crime. In 1994 a crime bill was passed by President Bill Clinton that would prohibit just anyone from owning a gun (Washington Times vol0). As long as guns are made readily available for Americans to own them, tragedies such as the 1999 columbine school killing that 13 people were killed and wounding countless of others (Cullens2000,p 439) will continue to happen. Gun control policies should be stricter for people who wants to own a gun and for the store owners who sale them. The Hoffman Gun Center and Indoor Range require that gun owners have pistol permits that want to buy assault rifles. According to the Department of Emergency Services and Public Safety the law requires that a person who wants to buy a gun be at least 21 years of age, no convicted felonies, background check, and take a safety and storage course (Hoffman, 2001, newspaper). In America at least 400 children will die...
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...Gun Control No matter where you are in the world you are bombarded with issues that can raise a debate. Anything from same sex marriage to global warming you will hear about it. One of the biggest ongoing debates of our time that does not seem to have a solution to its end is gun control. While most topics have three sides of supporters: those who are for it, those who are against it, and those who are in the middle. Gun control seems to only have two sides. The National Rifle Association who is against gun control has a slogan that states “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people”. This makes a very bold statement that when left alone guns in and of themselves don’t and will not cause any harm. Which if anyone who is not truthfully reading this statement correctly will fail to see what this statement means. Anti gun control supporters believe with proper training and understanding and gun owner responsibility will ease the minds of the American public and will keep the public silent. But when school shootings such as Columbine, public shootings as with the movie theater shooting, and homeland terrorist attacks such as gangs are on the front page of every news paper and all over the media, it makes it hard for a person who doesn’t know much about guns to support the no gun control agenda. The other side of the argument that is for gun control has very good persuasive points on why we need gun control here in America. The claims of no more automatic weapons are sold...
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...The Deadly Date The Deadly Debate Gun Control has been at the forefront of many debates due to the increase of deadly shootings. Over the past several years, there have been multiple mass casualty shootings, and as the number of shootings increased, United States citizens began the debate of whether tighter gun control laws would prevent these shootings. In this debate, we will address the reasons supporting gun control and the reasons opposing gun control. Americans have a choice and this choice will be debated below. America was founded on the principle of freedom and the rights of an individual to live in a nation built by the people, for the people. The government has begun to use tragedy, terrorism and civil unrest to force unjustified laws and federal controls into action that are a direct attack on our civil liberties. The NSA and other federal organizations have violated Americans rights and freedom in the name of national security far too many times. If we allow the government to take away our rights to bear arms it will be another tragedy in the long list of attacks on our American rights. Many gun control activists believe that reducing the number of private gun owners in America will reduce crime and suicide. This could not be further from the truth; strict gun laws will only take the guns out of the hands of law abiding citizens, criminals will be armed and normal citizens will have no means of immediate protection. A recent study conducted by Harvard...
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...Gun Control On January 1989,a mass shooting occurred in Stockton,California,were 34 students and one teacher were killed.Two months after the shooting occurred,President George H W Bush issued a ban on importing all semi-automatic weapons into the US, but the United States Congress felt that the current ban was not strong enough.For that reason,in November 1993, Congress proposed an assault weapons ban that would ban assault weapons in the U.S. for ten years.The ban would include the production and possession of semiautomatic weapon. The assault weapons ban was passed by congress and signed into law by President Clinton and was in effect for ten years.On September 13,2004 ,the current assault weapons ban was about to expire,but congress house...
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...Gun control is a complex and divisive issue in America. People who are in favor of gun control foresee no violence whatsoever if guns were banned. But is that a realistic thought? I will carefully analyze details discussing how an actual gun ban would result. Would a gun ban make the world safer to live in? Would it make the world more dangerous? Prompted by horrific elementary school shooting, President Barack Obama tasked his administration with creating concrete proposals to reduce gun violence that has plagued the country. The President includes both legislative proposals that would need to be acted on by Congress and executive actions he can perform on his own. Many of the executive actions involve the president directing agencies to do a better job of sharing information. Proposed congressional actions include, but are not limited to: (1) Requiring criminal background checks for all gun sales, including those by private sellers that currently are exempt; (2) Reinstating and strengthening the ban on assault weapons that was in place from 1994 to 2004; (3) Limiting ammunition magazines to 10 rounds; (4) Financing programs to train more police officers, first responders and school officials on how to respond to active armed attacks; and (5) Providing financing to expand mental health programs for young people. A national survey of police officers show overwhelming support for the Second Amendment and the country’s strong tradition of gun ownership, while opposing...
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...Some people say its not the persons fault, it's the guns. The school shootings and mass shootings that have been happening, people are not blaming the person but the gun or the mental issues the people have, that have been showing up in most of the recent mass shootings. Although people say guns should be banned completely to prevent the mass shootings, we shouldn't have to ban them we should just put more restrictions and laws that make it harder to get guns, that would prevent small crimes and mass murders and shootings while people can still self defend and hunt for game in america. Background and mental health checks in the gun buying process would help prevent small crimes with robberies because if the buyer has previous crimes on...
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...Internet Resources 1. Agresti, James D., and Reid K. Smith. "Gun Control Facts." 11 Feb. 2013 Web 18 Sept. 2014. http://www.justfacts.com/guncontrol.asp. This is a web document in which the authors cover pure statistics and facts. Graphs, tables, quotes, and statistics are all that this piece contains. This resource is useful since it was updated a little more than a year ago with the most recent data and continues to be updated as new stats and facts become available. It is also neutral in nature, giving just the facts and referencing both the affirmative and negative sides of the argument. 2. McEntee, Peg. “Utah Teacher Shoots Herself in Leg With Concealed Weapon.” Huffington Post 11 Sept. 2014 Web 18 Sept. 2014 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/11/teacher-shoots-self-concealed-weapon_n_5807826.html?utm_hp_ref=gun-control The Huffington Post is a news site with an entire section dedicated to news surrounding gun control, both recent and past. This article is helpful because it outlines the concealed carry laws in Utah schools, a state which has closely modeled it’s laws after Colorado’s. This article is useful because it describes some of the negative effect that concealed carry on campus has for the person carrying as well as the student population/their parents if they find out about the firearm. 3. Students for Concealed Carry. “Common Arguments Against Campus Carry.” Concealed Campus 2011-2012 Web Sept. 18 2014 http://concealedcampus.org/common-arguments/ ...
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...Gun Control is a set of laws or policies that limits the making, sales, trade, possession, modification, and use of guns. Gun control first became an issue in 1934 with wars of gangs. Because of this the first gun control act was passed. The national firearm act of 1934, this act is a long series of measures trying to stop the spread of increasingly destructive firearms in gang violence. Gang violence is a big cause of gun control now. An article found on reuters.com stated,” The study also found that in Los Angeles and Oklahoma City, nearly a fourth of gang killings occurred in drive-by shootings. What's supposed to help or stop the use of guns in gangs are not working at all. This act was not really enforced enough, gangs then and today...
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...Karen Halusek Persuasive Research Paper In America, guns have been a part of the country’s society since its birth. Throughout history, citizens of the US have used firearms to protect the nation, protect their families, and to hunt for food. In the United States, gun control is an issue that has both sides firmly imbedded in their beliefs. The parties in favor of gun ownership and the right to keep and bear arms rely on the fact that provisions for such rights are protected by the Constitution. No legitimate study in the US has ever shown that gun control has any positive impact on crime. Society benefits from firearms in the hands of responsible citizens. In this time of turmoil and growing violence, gun advocates feel more than ever that their position is justified. The issue of gun control continues to remain a controversy. A large number of citizens believe that if gun acts are strictly enforced, that violence and the threat of crime will reduce everywhere. On the other hand, a large amount of society feels that they deserve the right to bear arms and will stop at nothing to protect their second amendment. The challenging issue of gun control takes a harmonizing act of extreme measures. Weighing the rights and liberties for each individual against the welfare and safety of the public is a risky balancing act. Attempts to keep firearms away from these citizens do more harm than good. People believe that the banning of guns is the way to save lives, this statement is incorrect...
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