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There are more than 53 million households with firearms, and over 300 million firearms in the United States according to the book of Firearms and Violence

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In 2000 a survey was published by the Journal of Quantitative Criminology saying that civilians used their firearms around 100,000 times a year against crime.

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The production statistics from gun manufactures say from a 2010 survey that out of the 300 million firearms in the United States, one third are hand guns alone!

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United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime conducted a study where they discovered two-thirds of death related to guns were suicides (Kirk). In the terms of crime 16,272 murders were committed in the year of 2008.

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In a nationwide survey gun owners stated the reasons why they owned their firearms. 67% stated they owned firearms for protection against crime or self-defense, 66% said their gun was for target shooting, and 58% used their guns for hunting purposes.

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In 2000 a survey was published by the Journal of Quantitative Criminology saying that civilians used their firearms around 100,000 times a year against crime.

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Then a part of the same study the U.S. Department of Justice concluded that 5.4 million crimes were committed in 2008 in the United States of American.

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Unusual Vocab: Accismus – When you pretend to be not interested in something or someone, when you really are interested

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Current Information

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FBI background checks are currently required for commercial sales. The proposal being considered would expand them to gun shows and Internet sales, but would not require checks for other private transactions, according to multiple sources from both parties who are familiar with the talks.

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There is no proof to support the idea that concealed-carry permit holders create more violence in society than would otherwise occur; they may, in fact, reduce it.

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Gun Control laws should not be stricter.

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Gun Control laws should not be stricter.
1. Gun control will not reduce crime.
2. Gun control will make individual safer
3. The second amendment right of the constitution guarantees the right of the people to keep and bear arms.

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Evidence Paragraph / Section #1 Introduction of opposing view (Paragraph #2)

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Many left wing advocates believe that implementing stricter gun laws will reduce crime in America.

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Per capita the United States has the highest amount of gun ownership in the world. Because of the way America was formed, gun ownership is a deeply ingrained into our culture. The revolutionary war and our founders Bill of Rights gun ownership has always been a protected freedom.

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According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics after the Port Authur Massacre new gun laws were implemented into Australians parliamentary system. According to John Howard, former Australian Prime Minister, right after Australia bought back all weapons there was a considerable decrease in suicide rates, crime with a firearm, and homicides.

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B. Direct Quotation
1. John Howard
2. Interview with Christiane Amanpour
3. Amanpour is the Chief International Correspondent for CNN and host of CNN International's nightly interview program Amanpour.
4. So many people have a snap point and if that snap point arrives and you have a gun handy you are far more likely to kill somebody that you are to use a knife or some other instrument.

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4. So many people have a snap point and if that snap point arrives and you have a gun handy you are far more likely to kill somebody that you are to use a knife or some other instrument.

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This quotation is opposing evidence that is telling us that many irrational people have a point where once they are pushed to their breaking point it is much easier to end your and others life’s with a firearm rather than a knife.

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This happens a lot when a person is bullied, for example take the Columbine High School massacre, where 12 students and a teacher were killed in the result of bullying.

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If a person wants to end their life they would probably think twice if they had to use a knife resulting in a slower more painful death. With a firearm it is much easier pull a trigger and you’re done.

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D. With the number of Americans killed each year by firearms some Americans believe that controlling gun ownership will reduce needless deaths. By making guns harder to obtain the mentally unstable might be less likely to use a firearm to commit murder or suicide. Those opposing gun ownership could use the Australia gun ownership could use the Australia gun ban statistic s that banning guns saves lives.

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Every year there are about 5.5 million violent crimes in the United States alone according to the U.S. Department of Justice. (U.S. Dpt.)

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In a 1993 survey of 4,823 homes, over a five year period 0.6% of those households had members who had to use a firearm in a defensive situation. Most households that said they used a gun in the defensive situation told the surveyors “if they have not used their firearm for protection they most certainly would have been killed.” (By Gary Kleck and Marc Gertz)

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In the year 2000 a study was published in the Journal of Quantitative Criminology, saying that civilians who used their firearms to defend themselves and others from crime and defense at least 980,900 times per year.

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This information is relative to my thesis because this is telling us the exact statistics of how many Americans use there firearms for protection and self-defense every year.

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Direct Quotation
States with the largest increases in gun ownership also have the largest drops in violent crimes. Thirty-one states now have such laws—called “shall-issue” laws. These laws allow adults the right to carry concealed handguns if they do not have a criminal record or a history of significant mental illness.

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This quotation serves as supporting evidence because it explains to us that homeowners with firearms have the least amount of actual crime taking place. Now this number might very if the homeowner is not in their residence at the time of the crime.

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D. By using statistics provided by the Us department of Justis and surveys of American households the data shows that gun ownership reduces crime. Gun are used over a million times a year in the prevention of crime. Unlike the Australian gun buy back states in America have shown drops in violent crimes as legal gun ownership increases.

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Evidence Paragraph / Section #2 Introduction of opposing view (Paragraph #4)

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A. Experts believe that applying gun control will not only make individuals less safe, it will provoke more mass shootings like at the 2012 Aurora shooting where 12 people lost their lives.

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Some people believe that gun control will make people safer and others believe that it will make people less safe.

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Gun control will reduce crime

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In a nationwide survey of 4,977 households found that, 3.5 percent had members who had to use a firearm in self-defense for their protection at their property, or work. Applying this statistic 1,028,614 of the U.S. population have to use their firearm in self-defense manner.

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1. Erich Pratt
2. Erich Pratt is director of communications for Gun Owners of America
3. So are more gun control laws really going to make us safer? Is it any surprise that all of the mass shootings that have occurred in this country—with the exception of one—have taken place in gun-free zones?

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Gun control will not make us safer. Many of these mass shooting have occurred in places that have not been gun free zones.

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Gun control has been a much debated topic and many concerned citizens believe that it will not make us safer.

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Evidence Paragraph / Section #2 Introduction of Supporting view (Paragraph #5) Individuals less safe

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According to MD. Sripal Bangalore, writer for The American Journal of Medicine, U.S. doctors who have compared gun related deaths in countries where many people own guns such as America to countries that have a very low gun ownership, say guns do not make a nation safer.

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Economist Richard Florida mapped the correlation with firearm deaths to states that have firearm laws in place. In his study he found that states with higher gun control had fewer gun casualties.

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This information is relative to my thesis because it explains that high gun control has worked in other countries so it will work in our country

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1. In an interview between President of the Brady campaign John Gross and Colin Diersing Gross says,
2. For example, a study that the gun lobby likes to use that shows how many people have used guns in self-defense, they claim about two million did last year, is based on an incredibly small sample size and-

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self-reporting where a respondent is motivated to respond in the positive because of the glamorized notion and probably by the fact that it’s illegal to have used the gun if they weren’t provoked to use the gun.

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John says that the people that took the survey that used their firearm in self-defense was to small of a population size and that it was self-reporting which means if it wasn’t in self-defense then it would have been considered murder.

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A. The second Amendment of the Constitution guarantees the right of only the military to keep and bear arms. Back when the founding fathers wrote the constitution we didn’t have an army so the people needed guns to defend themselves but now that we have a militia we have no need for firearms.

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These were the needs back in the eighteenth century but now that we are in the twenty First there is no need for firearms.

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Via Mother Jones, an Emory University study concluded For every time a gun is used in self-defense in the home, there are 7 assaults or murders, 11 suicide attempts, and 4 accidents involving guns in or around a home.

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Quote Second Amendment researcher, Partrick J. Charles says, “Leading up to the adoption of the constitution and the Bill of Right, no law in any of the states, colonies, or territories had used the phrase ‘bear arms’ in anything but a military sense.” Patrick is saying that “bear arms” means strictly for military purposes only.

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Some gun opposes question the word choice and grammar usage of the founding fathers when they wrote this amendment and how they wanted us to interpret it.

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The only legitimate reason it (Second Amendment) exists in 2013 is to provide a disproportionately sacrosanct, nearly biblical cover for the corporate, for-profit gun manufacturing industry. There’s simply no other use for it, especially within a document filled with timeless and fully legitimate human rights.

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Bob Cesca
Bob Cesca is an American director, producer, writer, actor, blogger and political commentator

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Explain Quotation
Bob is saying that the only reason why the second amendment exists is because it is untouchable. The second amendment is a protection for the gun industry. He states that the rest of the constitution is filled with other legitimate information except for the second amendment.

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Many experts belive that the only armed US American Citizens should be a militia or a Army thus reducing crime, murder, and suicides.

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Evidence Paragraph / Section #3 Introduction of Supporting view (Paragraph #7) People

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The second amendment was originally explained to mean that the actual people had the right to keep and bear arms and the government could and would not interfere. It defines this when the constitution states that this right will not be infringed. The constitution clearly defines ownership of a firearm as a constitutional right of every citizen of America.

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Gun advocates may possible question the entire Bill of Rights. If our government decides to take away the right to keep and bear arms then US citizens would question the entire other nine amendments which where all passed the same year.

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We are aware of the problem of handgun violence in this country, and we take seriously the concerns raised by the many amici who believe that the prohibition of handgun ownership is a solution.... But the enshrinement of constitutional rights necessarily takes certain policy choices off the table.

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Important information pertaining to previous card
Rev Matt Malone
He is the Reverend and directs the Executive Office of Education

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Quote Explanation
The quote is saying our constitution is sacred and the Supreme Court believes the second Amendment is sacred banning the second amendment is not an option in preventing gun related deaths.

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Gun control laws should not be stricter. Criminals are emboldened when there law abiding victims have no retaliation because they know they will not be armed.

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The three supporting evidence points in my paper are...
Gun control will not reduce crime
2. Gun control will make individuals less safe

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3. The second amendment of the constitution guarantees the right of the people to keep and bear arms.

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Per capita the United States has the highest amount of gun ownership in the world. Because of the way America was formed, gun ownership is a deeply ingrained into our culture. The revolutionary war, our founders, and the Bill of Rights have always been a protecting gun freedom.

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The revolutionary war, our founders, and the Bill of Rights have always been a protecting gun freedom.

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In the year 2000 a study was published in the Journal of Quantitative Criminology, saying that civilians who used their firearms to defend themselves and others from crime and defense at least 980,900 times per year.

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The second amendment was originally explained to mean that the actual people had the right to keep and bear arms and the government could and would not interfere. It defines this when the constitution states that this right will not be infringed.

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The constitution clearly defines ownership of a firearm as a constitutional right of every citizen of America.

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Gun control has a great social impact on everyone because everyone is affected. If a mass shooting happens everyone is hurt by the fact that our fellow Americans were injured or effected by it, where it was family, friends, or fellow neighbors.

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If our country decided to outlaw all guns the law breaking offenders would just smuggle weapons in like they already do with the 7 million pounds of marijununa alone in the United States.

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It seems like both sides of the controversial debate would agree that banning guns will not solve the deeper rooted problem of senseless crime.

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