Gun Control: The Battle Rages On Tyler D. Scott Ozarks Technical Community College Abstract This paper discusses and is centered around the on-going debate over gun control, I directly address how each major political party views this subject and what I believe the United States Government should do to be able to best combat this tremendous issue. I use research from multiple sources that contrast each side of the argument and give an overall insight into the world of modernized gun control
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New York’s Influence on the Federal Gun Law Since the tragic events in Aurora, Colorado and more recently Newtown Connecticut the talks of stricter gun laws has become a major controversy and political topic. According to an Editorial from the New York Times, New York Leads on Gun Control Editorial, the state of New York has created a bill that will further make guns harder to obtain and own. The bill expands the ban of assault rifles to also include semiautomatic weapons with detachable magazines
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Running Head: WEAPONS UNDER CONTROL Weapons Under Control Barbara Gladden Professor Robinson Contemporary International Problems September 9, 2010 Weapons Under Control Weapons are a major
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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
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307 U.S. 174,... ‘has some reasonable relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a well-regulated militia...'" (Cornell 2022). The Second Amendment was intended to empower citizens to defend themselves, their communities, and their rights against potential aggression, whether from foreign invaders or domestic oppressors. The incorporation and implementation of the Second Amendment over time have been complex processes influenced by historical, social, and legal factors. Initially, the Second
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Tougher gun control will not decrease the US violent crime rate It is true that guns have caused many deaths and a lot of criminal violence in the United States, tougher gun control will not decrease the US violent crime rate, but getting a real solution to crimes caused by guns will be very expensive and hard to do. So the government decides to win future votes by creating more gun control. There is no country in the world that can say that after passing stricter firearms laws that it
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especially with the rapid rise of gun violence in America. It is difficult to not feel affected by the recent massacres like the one that have occurred at Fort Hood, Sandy Hook, and Aurora. With so many incidents of gun violence sprinting up, a demand for change is in order. While solutions are being debated, it is without a doubt that a concrete gun laws can lower gun crimes, restrict the purchase of weapons, and bring innovation within gun manufacturers. Gun control has become a hot topic in American
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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
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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
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Unit 3 Paper Guns: A Dangerous or Useful Tool? Guns are talked about with a lot of negativity in this country, and why shouldn’t they be? A lot of negative results have come from guns. For example, we have the Columbine Shooting that happened in Colorado and more recently the Virginia Tech massacre that concluded in 33 lost lives, but was is it the guns that caused the damage? Or was it something else? Guns were not the one to pull the trigger and claim the lives of all the innocent people on
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