Auli Ek Writing 2 08/24/2015 More or Less: The Debate on Gun Control How can we reduce the crime rate? A good solution might be to have more guns! This is suggested by John Lott, who is an economist as well as political commentator. However, Garen Wintemute, the director of the Violence Prevention Research Program at the University of California, Davis, emphasized the negative effect of guns. On one hand, Wintemute believed that less guns lead to less violent crimes. On the other hand, Lott denied
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Guns Magazine: Loaded... ready... safe! Can your home-defense gun be loaded and quickl... Page 1 of 5 Return to article page This story was printed from LookSmart's FindArticles where you can search and read 3.5 million articles from over 700 publications. http://www.findarticles.com Loaded... ready... safe! Can your home-defense gun be loaded and quickly accessible, yet still be safe? Our handgun editor says "Yes!" and offers several proven strategies. Guns Magazine , Jan 1, 2002, by Massad Ayoob
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Gun control has been a hot topic for very long time. People on the anti- gun control side believe that gun ownership is a Constitutional right backed by the Second Amendment. The anti-gun believe that you should be able to posses and own any firearm. They also believe that gun laws only restrict the law abiding citizens. Pro-gun control believe that guns are the backbone to our crime problem. They also believe that gun laws help keep guns of the street and deter crime
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Gun Control Gun Control; Should We Have More? John Lehmann Composition II Abstract Gun Control; should we have more? In this research paper I will explore the statistics of cities that have tighter gun control laws and what the gun violence statistic has done. In looking at statistics I will also explore what gun laws should do and should not do. Gun Control; should we have more? One of the major heated topics in America is gun control and after every tragedy it flares up again.
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2011 In the article “Obama To Unveil Gun Control Reforms In Near Future” by Sam Stein depicts an African American president who decided to reform gun control. According to Sam, 6 months after the attempted assassination of Representative Gabrielle Gillfords left the Obama administration scrambling to reform the gun control laws. The Obama administration is drafting new legislation towards combating gun control. Nevertheless, the problem with guns was not apparent when the 2nd amendment
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time ago, a commercial ad about gun control was shown. This ad shows a clock ticking down all the while showing young students, parents, teachers and an unknown person carrying a bag. This was a very emotional way for me to enter the world of gun control. The news seems full of school shootings lately, starting with Columbine, Virginia Tech, Sandy Hook and the last one at USC campus. They seem to be growing on scale and frequency. School shootings and gun control have become tied together in the
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Ronald Lujan Jr Alissa A Buckley ENGL96/1A 18JULY2016 Here in the United States there are few topics more controversial than gun rights. On one end we have our pro-gun Americans who are all about our second amendment that gives us the right to bear arms. On the other end we have our anti-gunners who would like to do away with these weapons. What was already a hot topic; especially here in San Francisco, has now been amplified exponentially do to the recent rash of mass shootings occurring
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Even with places that have strict gun laws, the majority of mass shooting happen in places that prohibit guns. I feel that for some people, owning a gun is a way of life, and I respect that, but some guns cross the line. Handguns, for example, is the tool that most gun homicides a committed by. This being, handguns aren’t good for the one thing that guns were made for, hunting. Hunting guns range from shotguns to one shot rifles and they were all made for killing
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2013 Gun Control Our world is changing, we seem to face new problems everyday. Change effects everything from the weather to our healthcare and beyond. One change that has been causing a lot of push towards action is gun violence. Times aren’t what they once were. There was a time when people would leave their houses unlocked at night and didn’t fear walking alone after dark. Through the years people’s sense of security has changed. A lot of that change is due to the horrific gun violence
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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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