Debate Paper: Gun Ownership versus Gun Prohibition Mark Mitchell XBCOM-275 April 27, 2014 Daniel Anderson Debate Paper: Gun Ownership versus Gun Prohibition Gun control (prohibition) is one of those matters on which practically every person has a view and those views are deeply maintained. Whether a person is pro-gun or anti-gun is based on each's opinion and are repeatedly established not on real details but rather on crude passions driven by extensively broadcasted distortions regarding
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who needs it? Well we all do, no matter where we live. What are the best ways to protect ourselves? Despite what many people say, a firearm is a great way to protect yourself and others. The government is trying to limit our gun freedom; in doing this they are taking away our own personal protection package. One pull of the finger and you can stop a person or animal dead in their tracks. Most of the time you wouldn’t have to pull the trigger, just the sight of the gun can stop them. In 2005-2010
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“Guns do not kill, but people do.” I am sure most of us have heard this saying at some point in our lives. Surely, it is a statement of the obvious, but the logic behind it rings true. It may seem rational to ban guns entirely to prevent people from killing, but it is not the guns themselves that are the problem. The criminals who kill others are willing to break the law and risk going to prison for the rest of their lives to murder, yet they are expected to follow firearm laws? If a nationwide gun
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there are many kinds of weapons available in the market. The second amendment gives people the right to use the weapon for their self-defense in homes. Does the gun really protect the life of a person? There are lots of home and public shooting happening in these days. The weapons can be misused by illegal users and mentally unstable individuals. This means that instead of protection, they endanger the life of people. So when considering the increased number of shooting, government should come up with
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citizens blamed guns and the lack of gun control policies but never did they blame mental health. The shooting that took place is not a failure of gun control but of the mental health system and lack of treatment that was given. Many of the horrific shootings that have taken place were done by individuals who suffered from a mental disorder and were not receiving the proper treatment. If more people actually took the time to look at the person behind the gun and not the gun itself, than they
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Gun Control is when you keep firearms plus guns away from people. Many people think that gun control is right because they think keeping people away from guns will reduce the amount of deaths each year. They also think that guns cause many of the deaths that had been committed each year. Also when ever people hear the word gun, the thoughts are of violence and negativity. Many people, myself included think gun control is wrong because we know that it is not necessary, since we know that guns were
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Guns in US: Why it Matters Imagine a horror movie where you and your group of friends hung out together to celebrate the night of Halloween then eventually got trapped with a serial killer in a house without lights and communication devices. However, your group were still able to find some stuff for self-defense. Every single hour, there would be one person mysteriously disappeared and found dead in some eerie places. The number of people who survived was getting smaller and smaller. You had no
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Gun Control Tony Thompson Grand Canyon University - Eng-106 02/16/2014 Gun Control 1 Gun Control Gun Control is one of the leading causes of death today. Gun control has been rising
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Understanding gun culture widens the spectrum that sociologist use today. From how one makes sense of what exactly a culture of guns are. To the influence agents of socialization and social institutions have on our opinions. Not only that if society has divergent ideas on guns, a consensus of a culture may be potentially at risk on what to do and who decides. Members of a societal group, also play a part on whether influence of guns falls in play on certain positions. It’s these developed concepts
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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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