budge a hair. Now, the idea that a gun could sprout legs, cock itself and shoot an innocent bystander is just plain silly. In recent times, many people have blamed the gun instead of the shooter for mass shootings or accidents. Many times, it was indeed an accident that could have been avoided. But are these accidents and tragedies cause to eliminate our constitutional right to bear arms? Even though democrats, liberals and left-wing activists believe that gun control is best for America because of these
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their own ideas, values or beliefs. Many people use this platform to inform others on specific topics, while using their own personal experiences to do so. The Ted Talk, “ Why Gun violence can’t be our new normal,” is given by Dan Gross, a gun-control activist. Dan starts off his speech with his own personal story dealing with gun violence. He explains how he started to feel like his life was finally going in the right direction and how he just landed his dream job at an advertising agency in New York
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Gun violence has always been around but in this day in age there are more school shootings than ever before. Gun control is being pushed more and more with every major shooting that happens. But here's the thing gun control will never work it will not lower the amount of gun violence in schools and here's why. Some schools inaticular have tried their own ways of avoiding gun violence like increadees security and even giving students clear backpacks. Clear backpacks have become a enforced rule
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how to deal with guns and how people use them. Most of this came about due to the recent spate of school shootings, culminating in the tragedy that happened at the Umpqua Community College outside of Roseburg, OR on Oct. 1. I live in the same town. Our town has come together in support of the students and staff of this college. Politicians of both parties have proposed different solutions to combat criminal usage of guns and the president has weighed whether or not to require gun dealers to initiate
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Gun legalization benefits and disadvantages in the USA Introduction The question on whether violence and crime could be tackled effectively and consequently minimized by ultimately legalizing guns in the United States has remained a hard nut to crack over the past decade. On the other hand, ardent debate has been going on getting the guns off the streets. There are valid points on both sides of the issue where legalizing of guns will have benefits as well as disadvantages to the American society
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Petersen English 100 May 30, 2018 Socioeconomic Problems and Gun Related Deaths Carrying gun for personal use may be good for safety to some extent. People will be dying till socioeconomic problems such as unemployment, poverty alcohol consumption exist, but gun related death can be stopped up to some extent by controlling guns. For example, in India, many people are killed by a gun shot in weddings. A recent study says that guns are responsible behind the death of 32,000 people every year in
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controversial whether or not we should allow for everybody to have a gun. People argue that society has become more unsafe due to the fact that it’s so easy for almost anyone to buy a gun and also because of how advanced and dangerous these weapons can be. According to Alex Yablon in his article “15 Statistics That Tell the Story of Gun Violence This Year” from the time period of 2005-2015 there were 301,797 Americans killed by gun violence. In order to bring about change, we as society must be willing
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February 24, 2015 Gun violence in America is a relevant topic in today’s society because it affects a multitude of people. Truth being told, we need guns to fight and be successful in wars. But, we shouldn’t be using these guns against people in our own country. Most of the gun violence in America comes from police violence, gang violence, or guns just in the wrong people’s hand. This shouldn’t be tolerable or acceptable. To start off we need to fix or improve ways of gun ownership. Data from
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New York’s Influence on the Federal Gun Law Since the tragic events in Aurora, Colorado and more recently Newtown Connecticut the talks of stricter gun laws has become a major controversy and political topic. According to an Editorial from the New York Times, New York Leads on Gun Control Editorial, the state of New York has created a bill that will further make guns harder to obtain and own. The bill expands the ban of assault rifles to also include semiautomatic weapons with detachable magazines
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I started hunting when I was around nine or ten years old and learning about guns. I also took the hunter safety course. One lesson I have learned is that guns do not kill people. Stupid people with guns kill people. I strongly believe that putting more laws on guns will not stop criminal behavior. People’s safety will decrease if they are not allowed to have guns. When the states passed laws to make concealed weapons legal, the amount of multiple people shootings went down 84%. In addition, the
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