Gun Law Study JASON GUTIERREZ CJA/ 334 Lee Wagner 1/16/13 Gun Laws Study Today we are face with a growing numbers of horrific mass shootings. Many Americans want something done to prevent incidents like the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting from ever happening again. The question is what is to be done to prevent it from happening in the future. In the past all that has been done was to strengthen the gun laws. Even though gun laws in the past have been implemented to protect us from these
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Gun control has been a hotly debated issue for decades in America. There are the people who think that guns should be more restricted or just completely outlawed and there are the people who believe that our access to weapons should remain the way it has been ever since the constitution was written. The second amendment in the Bill of Rights is our “right to bear arms” amendment, if there were more restrictions on guns then that would violate one of our rights. In a way gun control makes
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enforce it. This is important to me because there are many gun-related crimes and people could prevent them from happening if they had a concealed handgun on them. Adults should carry concealed handguns because they prevent crime, the Second Amendment guarantees it, and most adults are law-abiding and don’t misuse firearms. First of all, adults should carry a concealed handgun because they restrain crime from happening. According to an FBI Crime Data report, Concealed handguns reduced murder by 8.5%
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citizens of the United States should legally possess a gun has been an issue present all throughout history. With the ongoing violence and crime involving guns, may people, including political figures, believe stricter laws on guns will lower the rate of gun related violence. But who should be the one to determine these laws? Who is to say these laws and bans would even work? Each state has their own individual law when it comes to owning a gun. Should each state continue to have their laws, or should
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Gun Control- Pro Gun control is the control of firearms so that crime will go down. Roughly 16,272 murders were committed in the United States during 2008. Most of these, 67 percent or 10,886 were committed with firearms. Even though people have the right to bear arms, as said in The Bill of Rights, there should be laws in place to limit the amount and types of firearms people can own. (www.justthefacts.com) Crime rates in the United States are way too high with most crimes such as robberies
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Public Policy and Guns Firearms have been apart of the American way of life since the day Joseph Smith first step foot in Virginia. If a person would take a look around social media, the news, or even on their community bulletin, they would see some sort of ad or display of a gun. It was found that in 2017, 42% of Americans live in a household with guns (Sarah, “A Timeline”). Recently, there has been a discussion on guns and what exactly the founding fathers had in mind when writing the Bill of
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• SUBSCRIBE • RENEW • GIVE A GIFT • DIGITAL EDITION Print | Close The Case for More Guns (And More Gun Control) HOW DO WE REDUCE GUN CRIME AND AURORA-STYLE MASS SHOOTINGS WHEN AMERICANS ALREADY OWN NEARLY 300 MILLION FIREARMS? MAYBE BY ALLOWING MORE PEOPLE TO CARRY THEM. By Jeffrey Goldberg The Century 16 Cineplex in Aurora, Colorado, stands desolate behind a temporary green fence, which was raised to protect the theater from prying eyes and mischief-makers. The parking lots that surround
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Gun Control or Our Freedom Jill Sanders ENG/215 January 28, 2013 Sophia Hsia Gun Control or Our Freedom The pros and cons of gun control has been a debate over the years brings several issues to light. The myth of the Second Amendment is merely a reasoning clause for the right to bear arms, and people have the right to bear arms for their own personal use. The truth of the Second Amendment is “A well- regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free state ” (www.guninformation
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issue that does not exist. Assault rifles are used in a very small percentage of gun crimes in the United States and they are only cosmetically different from other rifles. There has been a ban on them in the past and it proved to be an ineffective measure that was allowed to expire without being renewed by congress. These types of superficial classifications of weapons is useless when deciding whether or not a gun should be allowed to be owned and attacking assault weapons is similar to attacking
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“Gun Laws in the U.S.” “Guns don’t kill people, people do!” This slogan is used by many gun right advocates in America today. I couldn’t agree more! People kill people during the commission of crimes, in the heat of passion, or through a series of innocent, yet deadly mistakes. Gun right advocates continuously lobby the legislature into submitting bills that would allow John Q. Public to legally carry firearms onto college campuses. Firearm possession does nothing more than create a false
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