capabilities. Its purpose is to help mankind, but often it has a negative effect. Guns were developed as a tool to protect oneself by killing the enemy. However, they?re often used for murder and on innocent people. Many more people die from the gun than are protected by it. Is the gun something that is harming the human race? Many argue that it is ?people who kill people?, not guns. Even if there weren?t guns, people would kill each other with different means. Although, the invention of something
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Guns Imagine being in a situation where there was gun fire, smoke, and explosions. Everywhere you looked people were being killed all around you. It used to be that a scenario like this would bring to mind a soldier in the midst of a war. Sadly, now days scenarios like these are much too common. Mass killings characterized by those same two sentences are happening at an alarming rate. They are taking place here in the United States against innocent bystanders living their everyday lives. All
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right side of the aisle pulling a gun from his backpack. I am not an expert in guns, but from far away it looked like .22 caliber pistol. The small gathering got quiet as they were astonished by the heavy cold metal object since some of us have never seen a gun before. Avilio, one of my close classmates, was sitting right behind Mario's desk and by the movement of his lips; I could almost read the words coming out of his mouth asking Mario why would he bring a gun to school? I can't recall if i
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Gun Bans According to Noam Scheiber of The New REPUBLIC, in the article published on July 24th, 2012 title “Yes, Really, Ban All the Guns”, http://www.tnr.com/blog/plank/105337/yes-really-ban-all-the-guns#; his opinions are that, that no guns are safe. He feels that guns from home defense to hunting all should be banned. In this article he states “Guns kept in the home for self-protection are 43 times more likely to kill a family member, friend or acquaintance than to kill an intruder, according
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Wielder of the Gun By LaMerrence Edgeston A weapon can be used to do many things. Usually when you hear the word weapon, you would think of something that would harm you. In one way you would be right. In another way you could be wrong. Just because the tool is a weapon doesn’t mean the wielder will or can use it as a weapon. Confuse? That’s ok I’ll I explain. The person that wields the weapon can decide to kill or just disarm. It has been said that it’s not the weapon that makes the killer
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Having guns in the classroom will more than likely increase the chance of gun related accidents; although only a very small chance there would previously have been no chance. Although there is no way of knowing if the effect would be the same in the classroom as on the streets. Teaching can be a very stressful and frustrating job and the teacher may get very angry with individual students, allowing teachers to carry guns would greatly increase the risk of an unpremeditated shooting against on a schoolchild
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illness that emerge in relation to mass shootings frequently reflect larger cultural stereotypes and anxieties about matters such as race/ethnicity, social class, and politics. These issues become obscured when mass shootings come to stand in for all gun crime, and when “mentally ill” ceases to be a medical designation and becomes a sign of violent threat.” (Am J Public Health. 2015;105:240–249. doi:10.2105/ AJPH.2014.302242) The most important line to take from the excerpt is the line that says “each
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Shooting Tragedy in Campus Gun is the most dangerous weapon in the entire world, and it causes a lot of people into bloody tragedy when someone is killed. Gun is the weapon tote by officer policemen and usually at war used by soldiers all around the world. As soon as I discuss gun with friends, everybody has the same voice that the Unites States is a value freedom and democracy country. As we known that the law of the Unites States allow citizens have right to tote a gun at home, which means that
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They were protesting about gun control and arming teachers/staff. The citizens of Florida wanted their government to finally add permits onto the guns. They asked Donald Trump to “do something about it”, other than sending thoughts and prayers to the students who have been killed during the shooting. In Florida, you do not need a permit to carry a gun. Even if you’re 18 years old. Also, if you’re 21 in Florida, you still do not need a permit, but expect open carrying a gun. As of right now, some states
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mention firearms, ammunition or other weapons. ("Gun Commercial Banned From Super Bowl 2014 By Fox Due To NFL Rules: Report", 2014)”. Further, “Daniel Defense responded to this rejection by criticizing the NFL's policy and Fox for their rejection due to the fact that their ad did not contain any firearms and that they also sell outdoor equipment and not only firearms and as such they fall within the exceptions in the policy. ("NFL Bans Gun Seller’s Gun-Free Ad from Super Bowl: Watch, Weigh In",
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