Gun Control in America Alicia Buford COMM 215 Instructor Bruce Massis May 20, 2013 Did you know that in the United States that there are almost as many firearms as there are citizens (Wadman, 2013)? Consequently, the second amendment of the constitution gives each American citizen “The Right to Bear Arms.” The right to bear these arms is a just that, a right but, along with that right comes responsibility. Since the days of the pioneers, firearms have been an element of the American tradition
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Gun Debate The U.S. government has tried for many years to decrease gun violence with numerous restrictions and regulations on gun ownership and gun use but yet gun violence in America is still extremely high. Government policies alone cannot help to improve the gun violence, responsibility must be taken from all parties, especially gun distributors. Majority of guns used in crimes were purchased at a legal institution somewhere down the line so how can distributors control this? Gun violence claims
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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
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Gun Control Lead to safer environment and vital Economy Weiwei Zhu Xuedan Lu Overview United States has a long history of gun culture. Stemmed from its colonial history, America experienced revolutionary roots and frontier expansion. The Second Amendment states: "A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a Free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." So far, America has the largest total number of guns in the world-- about 270,000,000 guns
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Gun Control Guns themselves can’t do anything it’s the one holding the gun that decides where the bullets go. On an average day 13 children under the age of 19 are killed by gunfire and more are injured. Gun Control laws are not effective because they don’t prevent criminals from getting guns and they don’t stop crime (Peters). Gun control doesn’t prevent criminals from getting guns. Outlaws will still find a way to smuggle guns and use them to their advantage. The only thing that gun control
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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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Introduction Guns have been a part of this country’s society from its beginning. Throughout America’s history we have used guns for various different reasons. We use guns to protect this nation, protect our families, to participate in recreational activities and finally to hunt for food. The issue of Guns and gun control is and has been a huge issue that has been debated and will be debated as long as we keep having school shootings and mass murders. Weighing the rights and liberties of the individual
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Rebuttal BCOM275 February 18, 2013 Ellis Gun control laws have been the outrage among many Americans since the Sandy Hook shooting. Referencing the following article “Congress Takes up Gun Violence” from the New York Times on January 29th, 2013 for increasing more gun laws (2013). We don’t need more gun control laws because there are over 20,000 gun control laws currently on the books in the U.S. Many of the same localities which have strict "gun control" laws also prohibit ordinary citizens
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arguments can be summarized by the following statement: enacting stricter gun control laws could block dangerous figures from committing violent acts with guns whilst still allowing reasonable gun owners to keep theirs for their own desired purposes. As Hillary Clinton states, “We can have common sense gun reforms that keep weapons out of the hands of criminals and the violently unstable while respecting responsible gun owners… The stakes are too high, the costs are too dear, and I am not and will
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Are guns more bad or are they more good? Guns are great because they can lower crime rates, make people feel safe, and they can show you what happens if there was not any guns in the world. What are some benefits of having guns? First off, they lower crime rates. Statistics have shown that between the years 1991 and 2011, fatalities have dropped at least 58 percent and all the crime rates have drastically dropped. Thanks to Harvard, they have proven the more guns there are the less crime it tends
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