Jose Cruz Background It was Tuesday, April 20, 1999 at 11:19 AM when the dreadful violence began. Beginning with shooting Rachael Scott in the back, the students and staff of Columbine High School suffered 49 minutes of terror and death. A total of 12 killed and 22 injured because of the violence two students had unleashed on the society they wanted to destroy. These two perpetrators were Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, two high school students with prior psychological problems and juvenile detention
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| Gun Control Laws are too Constraining | | | Charles Jones | GE217 – ITT Technical Institute | | Gun Control Did you know that guns prevent an estimated 2.5 million crimes a year? There are many dangers in the world other than criminals. The United States Constitution was signed to defend the rights of the people. Gun control laws are too constraining because guns are used to prevent violent crimes, guns are used for self-defense and it is every American’s right to keep and
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"Obama & Gun Control Issues" President Obama has been president of our country for seven years. Obama has been creating conflict over gun control laws. Obama says his plan to protect the "Right To Bear Arms" in the Second Amendment of the U.S Constitution is to change the definition of gun sellers. Obama also says he wants all people who sell guns to do background checks on buyers. The way of changing the Second Amendment will take time and money, also congress approval to
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Gun Control. Does it need revised? Denise Kirby March 20, 2013 Gun Control. Does it need revised? Gun control seems to be a major issue for discussion in our society today. These issues have stemmed from all the violence and tragedies that have happened in the past several years. There seems to be two sides of this argument. People are either for stricter gun control laws or against it. I would like to try to find the correct answer as I am a gun owner. I enjoy target shooting, skeet shooting
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What do powdered sugar, baking soda, transmission fluid, fertilizer, your grandmother’s pin cushion, and a cold bottle of soda have in common? As much as this may sound like the beginning of a joke; it is quite the contrary. On Friday, July 20, 2012, a well-educated gunman entered a crowded movie theater in Aurora, Colorado during a midnight screening of the Dark Knight Rises and opened fire on an audience who were innocently anticipating a movie, celebrating an anniversary, birthday, or the
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Guns do not kill people. People kill people. The person is the one who pulls the trigger, killing someone. A gun cannot kill a person by itself. Some people disagree, and because of this, there is an issue on gun control, whether people should freely possess them or not. The debate is between making gun laws more or less strict, letting people wield them freely or not.Though the results of laws being less strict are far more acceptable than laws being more strict. Some reasons include that when guns
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something should be changed, and they feel people with mental illnesses need to have limited control of guns (3). Current gun control laws relating to mental illnesses are not very clear because states are not required to report mental health information to the agencies that perform background checks. There is also no standard on what information would need to be required to submit (5). Having stricter gun control laws towards people with mental illnesses or on the verge of a psychotic break, will help
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Gun Control, An Idea That’s Time Has Come As a Criminal Justice student I lean toward the gun control side of the current debate. In his Federalist Papers James Madison said, “Americans have the right and advantage of being armed – unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms” (Raymond). Madison may be right about our citizens having more rights than those in other countries, but our government places too much trust in the American people. If
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Proponents of gun control seem to pop out of the wood works each and every time some major school shooting gets amplified by the media. They will give notice that it is an unfortunate accident but then they'll just as quickly turn the issue into a Christmas tree for which to hang their own causes. "If we have had more gun control in this country, this sort of thing would not have had happened." This kind of overshadowing occurs much in liberal media for which they have to intertwine politics into
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