Our nation strives to protect its people while maintaining personal freedom. We are moving towards a more secure system with less government involvement, allowing more people to get away with crimes. Although we strive for protection, is freedom more significant than public safety? The second amendment is a contentious matter, causing far more controversy than any other amendment in the Bill of Rights. As America began to break from its British roots , many revolutionaries felt it was necessary
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about guns it was about having people be safe too.The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution protects citizen’s right to own firearms. This was added to the amendments when the ten amendments were added to the Bill of Rights On December 15, 1791. The problem with this amendment that not everyone could feel safe at their house. If they didn’t have the right to bear arms they felt like anyone could come to their home and just kill them. George Washington once said, “ free people ought not
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citizens of the United States should legally possess a gun has been an issue present all throughout history. With the ongoing violence and crime involving guns, may people, including political figures, believe stricter laws on guns will lower the rate of gun related violence. But who should be the one to determine these laws? Who is to say these laws and bans would even work? Each state has their own individual law when it comes to owning a gun. Should each state continue to have their laws, or should
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different ways. Many may think that the theme is about how parents need to take more responsibility for what their kids do. Or some may say that parents need to be stricter with what their kids buy. I look at the theme of this story in a different way. What on earth was a parent thinking letting there 17 year old kid buy a gun? You never know what a teenager really wants a gun for. Dave could have been planning a murder or he could have been planning on hurting himself. Many kids in the world have
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and gun control. The first key social issue is sex offenders. Sex offenders are required by state law to register in the system and allows the public to know where they live and what offense was made (Perlam 2006.). A sex offender is an adult, or child having consensual or nonconsensual sex with a minor. Having a sex offender in your neighborhood can prove not to be a good thing for schools or homes because of the children. When individuals register as they are supposed to, it allows people in the
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Anti Gun Control Do you want to be defenseless when an armed criminal breaks into your house and you can’t fight back because you don’t have any firearms in your home? Don’t you want to protect your family and yourself incase of a dilemma such as this? Well our country The United States of America is threatening to almost strip us of our American right to bear arms. Over the past 200 years the need for weapons, especially firearms for the single purpose of self defense from nature has drastically
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had a mental problem and he went to the school and shot all of the little children. Most of the mast shooting aren't from people having the assault weapons most of the massacres are from video games. Some shooters play gun games such as Call Of Duty. A lot of gunmen play those a games daily and learn how to do things like breaking into places, and killing many and many people. I think the U.S should ban violent video games. Assault weapons shall not be banned at all.
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On the morning of April 20, 1999, Eric Davis Harris and Dylan Bennet Klebold went into the Columbine High School in Littleton Colorado, and went on a rampage killing spree leaving 12 students and 1 teacher dead and over 20 people injured before killing themselves. This crime is known as one of the most deadliest school massacres in the United States history (Pittaro). On the day of the massacre, previously to the attack both Erick D. Harris and Dylan B. Klebold placed small fire bombs in a field
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Gun Control Laws in America Michael Turner Fayetteville State University English 120 Dr. Vicki F. Millspaugh-McKenzie 3/12/13 I feel that as an American we all are entitled to the “Right To Bear Arms” based on the Second Amendment. This is something that was giving to us by our forefathers, and shouldn’t be taking away. However, I do believe we need to set some parameters on guns are placed in people’s hands. Therefore I believe there should be tighter gun control laws in place. We do
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Today in America, gun control is a very serious issue. There are different opinions on this issue, the National Rifle Association (NRA), feels that guns are safe when used for protection by responsible citizens, others feel that guns are far to dangerous to be kept in homes, and that guns should not be owned by anyone, only used by the National Guard and law enforcement. These people think their opinions are correct according to the second amendment, the amendment that deals with the bearing of arms
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