Concealed Carry and Los Angeles County The issuance of concealed carry weapon licenses’ should be allowed to residences in Los Angeles County who meet all the requirements. The weapon would be used for self-defense, to help deter crime, to aid in stopping mass shootings and it’s our Second Amendment right. Claim I: Concealed weapons licenses would greatly aid in the self-defense of our citizens. 1. A 2013 research article in the Wall Street Journal reported that the average police response time
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Why Cannot The USA Have a Stricter Gun Control? The 44th president of the United States of America, Barack Obama, wants to apply more gun control in the states. He has on several occasions indicated his opinion against firearms and crimes committed with firearms. Obama said after the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy, “We won’t be able to stop every violent act, but if there is even one thing that we can do to prevent any of these events, we have a deep obligation, all of us, to try.” (McDonough
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AP Macro Fish Bowl Gun Control Laws 1. Gun control laws will not deter crime or deaths by firearms. a. Gun control laws will not prevent criminals from obtaining guns or breaking laws. Gun control laws will take away guns from law-abiding citizens, but not from criminals. i. Between 1982 and 2012, there were 62 mass shootings. 42 of the 62 shooters obtained guns legally. In 2013, the Bureau of Justice Statistics released a report that stated 37.4% of inmates who “used, possessed, or carried
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little experience with guns. The only person that I am close to and owns a gun is my Cousin. In high school I took a hunter education class and I learned the proper techniques to using specific weapons. Even though I've never been hunting I have a hunting license. The experience I have had with guns hasn't been good nor bad so it shouldn't influence my view. The most important part is to protect innocent people. The guns are not the problem, we are the problem. Removing guns completely would not solve
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America has the highest amount of gun related deaths each year in the world. “In Germany 381, in France 255, in Canada 165 in the United Kingdom 68, in Australia 65, in Japan 39 and in the United States, 11,127” (Moore Michael, 51:15-51:48). Since the United States has the highest number of deaths, it is important to have gun-control laws that restrict people from owning dangerous firearms like machine guns. Gun-control laws should support both sides of the debate. Of course, both sides will not
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Logan Vanburen 11/30/2015 Eng. 101 Mrs. Markowski Can Carrying a Weapon reduce Crime Rates There are crimes everywhere in our world. Crimes happen all the way across the nation and can even happen in a small local town that you may have grown up in. There is crime where ever you look now a days. From little petty crimes, all the way up to murder. It’s almost as if crime has started to become a part of our society, and not just something that happens only every once in a while. You can go on
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Organized Crime Paper The United States is run by a democratic government that has laws in place to ensure order and organization. However, there are certain people and groups that wish to compromise and profit personally from breaking these laws. According to Understanding Organized Crime (2007), organized crime can be defined by the members and the activities of a group. There are many crimes in which organized crime might be involved, but what separates individual crime from crimes committed
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is simply stating that men of the West do not follow the same laws that men from back east do. Committing murder is easily the biggest crime that men of the West commit. As clearly shown in Hondo (1953) and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, the object that aids in this crime, the gun, is essential to all Westerners who call themselves men. A man who carries a gun automatically brings an essence of superiority, pride, and skill
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to my remembrance. “East Orange is Leading the Way in Crime-Fighting Technology,” this title that was published in the Star Ledger which is a local newspaper. I am proud to say that I was born and raised in the City of East Orange that is located in the fine Garden State, New Jersey. I actually watched East Orange go from Suburbia to Urban and become a crime ridden 3.9 square miles. For such a small city it was infested with crime. The 1980’s was not good years and the 1990’s were no better
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After reading the section on gun control my view on the subject slightly changed. I went from not knowing much about control, thus not really being concerned if it existed or not. But now that I know a few facts, I can I agree partially with both sides of the issue. I think that people should have the right to carry concealed guns but that there should also be a few more regulations. These rules and regulations should include instituting one-gun-purchase- per-month laws, and also requiring registration
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