Gun Control Argumentative Essay

Lilly Mullins 4A The murder rates in Mexico have been rising since their current President Peña Nieto took office back in 2012 . Homicides have gone up five precinct. There have also been many cases that have caught the attention of the media such as the forty three students that were killed…

Picture it, me standing to the far left slightly behind this captivating camera aiming directly at its target. Lights fixed above the object like a dark cloud hovering over some pessimistic person. Headphones covering my ears muting the rest of the room out, and the voices project themselves as they rehearsed it. As time runs out, the words slowly roll off my tongue with accomplishment, “Cut!” I like words, a lot, and although to some it may just be well words, and figments of my imagination, I…

Kaz signaled to Inej, and she leapt down. She shut the wagon door, fastened the padlock, and slid the bold home. A second later the opposite side of the door pushed open. Kaz had simply removed the hinges. It was a trick they’d used plenty of times when a lock was too complicated to pick quickly or they wanted to make a theft look like an inside job. Ideal for faking suicides, Kaz had once told her, and she’d never been sure if he was sincere. Inej took a last look at the road. The men had…

Since this policy was enacted, census shows that there has been an annual decline in gun related incidents in schools. As well as San Diego, other states including: Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, Missouri, and Washington have had success with the “zero tolerance” approach in their communities. Although some may disagree, I firmly believe that…

Have you ever faced our fears well, I have. I arrived in the maze of bushes and trees and right as soon as we started Paintballs bolted past my head going as fast as a bullet, I ran for cover and found a wooden wall.I saw the people around us and had good shots, but it was my very first time so I could not shoot because I was afraid, but it wasn’t just me there my best friend Owen was also with me.THe paintballs broke on the wood and you could hear a splat we were behind the wall, but Owen…

The criminals I’ve been assigned to eliminate enter the engine room, they too are dressed in disguises, nonetheless I know better than to fall for that. I slow down as I’m only steps away from the criminals and have a clear shot, I begin to load my gun and point at the criminals…

Police brutality has been part of the public eye for decades, but more so in the past couple of years because of social media. The first time the term police brutality came to light was 1892 when the Chicago Tribune reported that a civilian, who was arrested, at the Harrison Street Police Station was severely beaten. Nothing has changed since then, considering cases of police brutality started coming to light and became more frequent then and now. In the past two years alone, over three…

As I sit at the desk in the bedroom on the computer looking at how the business is going. I look at people logging in the amount they sold and I do the math to make sure everything looks right. As I'm doing this the news on the tv catches my attention. "A wave of violence in Brazil over the past 2 weeks," The news lady says and I roll over and grab the remote off the bed to cut the volume up on the tv. "A man shot in his warehouse, in front of his child, then two days later his father was shot…

Innocent citizens in Syria are suffering and fighting to live while some people just sit there and let it happen. Syria is having a civil war right now and the government is trying so hard to win that they bomb towns of people just trying to live their life, cutting life short for many unsuspecting people. Since the only reason I'm still alive is because people go out of their way to help me, I think that the fortunate people of United States should reach their hand out to people in need. First…

fire in a classroom taking innocent lives of many as well as his own. In response, President Barrack Obama politicizes the issue of gun violence and asks the general public to help in the reformation of gun laws. In an online article by Rebecca Harrington, she summarizes and responds to an episode of “Last Week Tonight” in which John Oliver discusses the issue of gun violence. Politicians have dodged the issue and targeted the mentally ill, but are unable to correctly address current issues with…