Mark Ortiz 9.2 Persuasive essay final draft Gun control or people control? Society should be against a gun ban because people should be able to protect themselves. Why should honest, law-abiding citizens lose their rights and freedoms because there are people who violate laws? The failure to obey laws is here to stay. What we have to do is deal with those people on a separate basis, not take away the things they disobey the law with. A gun ban will only keep the 'good guys' from obtaining firearms
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Gun Control Rhetorical Analysis Bryan Cabrera Devry University 12/08/2013 Gun Control There are many people who argue about the topic of gun control. The topic that is discussed can be heard in television, among people’s conversations, on the radio, and in political debates. In the United States, 36% of the population owns a firearm for their personal use, whether it would be for hunting as a sport, personal defense, or just plain gun collections. So there are always debates on whether there
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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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“A modest proposal for making it easier for people with mental illness to buy guns, and have them at their use when they feel like they need them.” First, “I would feel really safe” with people that have a mental illness that can own a gun because they won’t do anything stupid with it. If we let people with felonies and mental illness can own wepons of any kind we can make the country a safer place. If anyone in the country can get a gun faster and easier after this new law that Trump passed that
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Gun Control Gun control is one of those debates that seems to never go away. This is most likely due to the fact that on any given night a person can turn on the TV and see a report of a gun-related death or crime on the news. Gun control advocates take these instances and immediately declare that gun control laws need to be strengthened or that guns should be outlawed completely. While this may seem like a rational reaction and a solution to the problem, upon further investigation it is discovered
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Gun control is not one issue, but many. Some people see gun control as a crime issue, rights issue, a safety issue, an educational issue, and a political issue among others. Within each of these issues there are those who want more gun control legislation and those who want less. On both sides of this issue opinions range from moderate to extreme. The issue of gun control has come up recently as an important decision opportunity for our country. Many people are asking whether guns really are the
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enough water and food plus oxygen from seven out of the ten people in the bomb shelter. We must have three goals in our mind while making our decisions which are Establish a government, Create a viable society, and to repopulate. Out of the ten I must chose three of the ten to kill and state why I choose to kill them. Out of the ten I chose to kill the 70-year old minister, the female vocalist, and the armed policeman. I choose to kill the 70-year old minister because he will try to justify what
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The term gun control refers to any action taken by the federal government or by state or local governments to regulate, through legislation, the sale, purchase, safety, and use of handguns and other types of firearms by individual citizens. Gun Control is one of the most serious issue that America is facing today. It is very controversial and “polarizing issue”(Barrett, 2), which means it tends to divide people. There is very Mixed feeling about gun control. The question of whether gun control policies
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As a person comes from a gun control country, I am really in favor of gun control and I think it is the best thing that our government does. I always heard some student or criminal shoot up schools, universities, malls and public places where their victims cannot shoot back. So I am just curious: why will gun exist? Before I came to U.S, I think maybe a gun is needed because of much land and less people. If criminal breaks through your house and it is impossible to get help from your neighbor
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whether there needs to be stricter gun laws. This debate was heavily impacted by the recent shootings. Some believe that there should be stricter gun control and others believe there should not be. Many people are blaming these tragic events on the weapons and others think that the weapons don't kill the people behind the weapon do. Thesis: There does not need to be higher restrictions on guns because if someone can't get a gun legally they will get one illegally, guns are used for protection, and criminals
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