Level 4A Gun ownership should be tightly controlled Guns are currently being used in this society for murders, celebration, hunting and gang activity. Moreover, guns are used for war and by the police force. There is no doubt about that guns take lives. Guns should not be use in such ways where others could be harmed or killed. Therefore, the laws should tightly control gun ownership. Some people believe that guns save more live and prevent
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I think guns are a problem in America today, but there is no real way to control the sale and use on illegal guns. People say that guns are the cause of violence but it's not the guns that kill people its people that kill people. If the government made stricter laws on guns, then they really wouldn’t be solving the problem, the problem is criminals are getting their hands on guns. So having stricter gun laws will make criminals find another way to get their hands on guns. The sale of guns over the
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Just a few weeks ago a man with the name Adam Lanza decided to take the guns of his mother and take the life of 20 children and 8 adults, including his mother's and his own. This atrocity hasn't been the first one. In the weeks since the massacre, gun control supporters have called for a new federal ban on assault weapons and for reductions in the number of concealed-carry permits issued to private citizens. However, to blame assault weapons for this tragedy makes sense like blaming airplanes for
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Gun Control A school is attacked by a madman and 26 people are shot and killed. A gunman enters a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado and opens fire killing 12 and injuring 70 others. The obvious answer to prevent instances like this from happening is to tighten gun laws and restrict people from being able to get them easily-or is it? Over recent years several mass shootings have occurred across the country. Every time this happens, more restrictions and bans are placed on owners and sellers of firearms
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Gun Control Gun Control in the United States should be more limited because Gun Control would reduce gun violence and would limit the amount of people killed each year by guns. According to Watkins “We will never fully solve our nation’s horrific problem of gun violence unless we ban the manufacture and sale of handguns and semi-automatic assault weapons.” USA Today, December 29, 1993.” [ (Watkins, 2012) ]. Gun control has been a hot topic for many years, because conservative Americans believe
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Legitimate Gun Restrictions Christopher Glover PHI103 Karen Kart February 25, 2013 Legitimate Gun Restrictions A continuous argument between gun owners and concerned citizens is over gun restrictions. Many gun owners support the second amendment of the constitution and believe that any restriction on guns is an infringement on this amendment and there for there right. Concerned citizens of the United States believe that guns are to readily available and believe restrictions should
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stepped up their claims for strict gun control laws (Levs, 2015). Gun control is laws that limit the sale and use of firearms. Gun control has been a controversial issue in the United States. Having tighter gun control laws is not the solution for all those massacres that are occurring nation-wide in the USA but in fact, it will result in an increase in crime rates. First of all, law abiding citizens should have the right to bare arms for self-defense. If gun control laws are to be enforced, criminals
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Gun Control What is gun control? Gun control is a federal act that was created back in 1968. Gun control laws must be stricter, lowering crime rates and deaths. If you haven’t heard many of us Americans are known to be very blunt, and short tempered. So for a minute, just imagine a short-tempered person with a lot of anger, and they are loaded with a gun, and around you. David B. Kopel says something similar to what I had just explained. “American Citizens are too clumsy and ill-tempered to be
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Stricter Gun Control In The United States The Second Amendment permits Americans the right to bear arms. An estimated third of Americans own firearm or someone in their household owns a gun. Incidents involving the possession and ownership of firearms have resulted in heated debates in American society. Gun control is the most prominent issue. Stricter firearm regulation is crucial in order to lower violence in America. However, I understand that it would be an infringement on our second amendment
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Gun Control Angela Bauch Grand Canyon University: PHI-105 21st Century Critical Thinking and Problem Solving Skills 01/24/2016 Gun control is one of the most divisive issues in American politics. “The term “gun control” refers to any government policies that influence the availability and use of firearms among the general public or distinct subsets of the population” (Chapman & J. Ciment, 2013). Gun control groups would like to initiate additional restrictions on firearms, but also to eliminate
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