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 amount of deaths
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hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period” (Nugent). There are millions and millions of people who owns guns. That does not mean that guns are bad. Many people argue that guns are too harmful and people should not have the right to own them. However, there are many cases where guns have saved peoples’ lives. It can be argued
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Response to Mass Shootings in U.S. Gun ownership laws in the United States have drawn much attention within the past few years. Many citizens believe that there is no longer a need to own firearms. However, gun owners in the U.S. are hesitant to give up their second amendment right. In Healy’s article, she explains the findings of a new study that shows the correlation between gun laws and the frequency of mass shootings. The findings show that nations with a large gun-owning population have more mass
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Although people some people don't want to make gun laws stricter, it needs to be strict. Anyone that owns a gun can easily walk outside and go to to a school or just decide to shoot someone. Someone that want to hurt someone or make it on the news about something can easily go to a person that is gun running(1). People that are mentally ill can still go out there a buy guns from any store because they don't know that they are mentally ill. Over thousands of people die from gunshot wounds
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Gun control has been a series topic of debate in recent years. People should not be able to purchase firearms. There are many reasons why people should not be able to buy guns. One reason is guns are not safe, there have been far too many accidents involving people being killed by firearms. Criminals can purchase guns to commit a crime. Semi-atomic weapons and automatic weapons are for military purpose only, and not to be used by civilians. Children can gain access to a gun and harm someone or themselves
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A Gun Or a Piece of Chalk: Is Giving Weapons To Teachers The Answer? It seems as though every time someone turns on the television or reads the newspaper, there is a new report of a school shooting in America. In light of these recent shootings, there has been an influx of public uproar about the things the country needs to do to prevent the massacres from happening again. Discussions about the best way to prevent future incidents have gone past simple public debate and have headed to congress
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¨Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.¨ What this means is that all the good people out there know what's the right thing to do and the laws never need to testify it, then for all the bad people out there that do a crime always find/get a way out from getting in trouble. In Anne Frank's quote it said “In spite of everything , I still believe people are really good at heart.” In response to the quote of Anne Frank, people are
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Gun violence in america has took a rapid increase in the past five years there has been two hundred and ninety school shooting since 2013 and seventeen of them has been in 2018 there are many people that say that sandy hook was the schools shooting that started all of the recent shooting because it gave all the kids that were feeling abused and mistreated a idea how to get revenge even if it was to take people's lives which was wrong because nobody deserves to lose their life. But the school shooters
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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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Gun Control Gun control is a hot topic currently, turn the news on and there is something to do with President Obama’s proposed gun control policy or a new shooting that has taken place. Obama’s released his new plan January 2013 for stronger and stricter laws for Americans being able to own guns. It is hard to ignore this topic with the recent shootings taking place, all with people who should not have had access to guns. The question we must ask ourselves is taking our right to bear arms or
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