Gun control has been around for as long as anyone can think of. It has been one of the biggest controversial issues that both people and courts argue about. Plus gun control has its reasons on why it has been around and still is not taken off. Gun control keeps neighborhoods safer and allows the government to know who owns a gun under their name. Having gun control around is only for the best of the people and not used in any way to harm others. Allowing gun control to continue is a way to let the
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put More Restrictions on Gun Ownership and Use The Second Amendment of the United States Constitution reads: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." The Second Amendment is the people’s right to bear arms. The United States should put more restrictions on gun ownership and use. Any american citizen can purchase a firearm from a store with a simple background check or firearms are sold at gun
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school in Texas think it is a bad idea because they said “the teachers are trained to teach our children not carry a gun” (Gainesville SunAug 26 2008), but others said that they felt that their children were safe with their teachers carrying a fire arm (Gainesville SunAug 26 2008). In cases like the Sandy Hook shooting, if the teachers in those class rooms would have had a gun to protect the students and themselves, then there might have been less deaths. The teachers that carry the weapons should
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degrees to the right… …Next to us, a yellow school bus lies on its side. Pieces of glass scatters everywhere. Black smokes exit the cranky engine, traverse up to the height of an oak tree, then dissipate into the blue sky. The bus won’t ignite its fuel and start working. Blood spilt on the grass and on the bus walls. We try to shake and wake up the driver and our couch, but the responses were the two cold bodies with dark red liquid on their foreheads. Anna is deeply cut in her arm by a chunk of
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accurate. To hold a gun correctly, one must use either their left or right hand to hold right behind the trigger. The thumb wraps around the top of the stock while the other fingers wrap around the bottom. The shooters other hand should be either under the hand holding the gun to support it if the gun is a hand - gun, or on the forearm if it is a shotgun or rifle. In this position, for a hand gun, the shooter should push their arms forward towards the target looking down the sights. The rear sight
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automatic weapons. 4. Guns are not allowed to be owned by private citizens in Japan and Britain and they do not have the violence as the United States has. Guns Should Not be Outlawed 1. The 2nd amendment guarantees the right of American citizens to keep and bear arms. 2. Gun violence is not normally committed by law abiding gun owners. 3. Laws are in place to require gun owners to register their weapons. Most gun violence is committed by un-licensed weapons. 4. Gun manufacturers
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Caetano pleaded that this law violated her Second Amendment Rights. The court of Massachusetts had three reasons why owning a stun gun was illegal in Massachusetts. First, the court said; “stun guns are not protected because they were not in common use at the time of the Second Amendment’s enactment.” The second
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concentrated in the area around the Persian Golf contained greater petroleum reserves of higher quality than anywhere else in the world * The dependence of industrial countries on this vital resoourse brought the preasures of the cold war to bear on the oil-rich countries * SOVIETS AND U.S KEPT CLOSE WATCH ON THE UNSTABLE GOVERNMENTS THERE * Governments of land with large oil reserves nationalized their petroleum industry to get direct access to a share of the profits created an
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state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” (World Book 441). There are gun control laws that currently exist, however, they do not jeopardize banning the purchasing and selling of all firearms. Due to the Second Amendment most gun control laws are outlawed. Gun control should not be put into action because taking away firearms will make people feel unsafe, and they will not have a way to protect themselves or their families. Keeping firearms in the arms of the people
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correct one. Anytime you exercise your freedom you must ensure you don’t offend anyone. Liberty is the ability to live free within a nation with your views on certain topics changing those liberties. Every Liberty is guaranteed within the Bill of Rights. In the eyes of our Founding Fathers they believed
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