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    weather by stricter gun laws or banning guns entirely. Every day five women are killed by guns and a woman's risk of being murdered increases 500% if a gun is present during a domestic dispute. Within the first 9 weeks of 2018 there have been 14 cases of violence with a gun in a school from suicides to mass shootings. There are survivors of these horrific events planning to walk out and protest gun laws on the 24th of March. I am with them and you should be too. One reason why gun control laws…

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    Gun Control Laws In Canada

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    Across North America, the use of guns and firearms were very controversial and still are till this day. Many Canadian politicians and citizens have looked down on the United States their gun control laws. On December 6th, 1989, an eye-opening tragedy for occurred. Twenty-five year old Marc Lepine walked into the University of Montreal’s Ecole Polytechnique, murdered 13 female engineering students, a woman staff member and killed himself. The massacre left the victims’ family in devastation and…

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    society. I believe there should be more gun control today. There should be more gun control because people in the streets are dying ,people with mental issues have a better chance of killing innocent people with guns , and without guns this worls would be more safe for everyone. People are dying in the streets. On the news everyday someone is pronounced dead on there .When need to stop the violence because mosts deaths are due to guns. With less this would be a…

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    Gun Control is a more harmful than helpful because it will end more lives than it will save and if they take away guns the only people that will have guns are the people that will use them for the wrong reasons. People are making false statements about guns they want to take away your guns,but in reality guns are not the problem people are. Even though knives kill more people than guns even though hammers kill more people than guns people still want to take guns so why are people tricked into…

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    Gun Control and the Second Amendment According to Schulman (1991), the text of the Second Amendment of the US Constitutions reads as follows: “a correctly structured militia, for purposes of state security; the right of the citizens to have and to carry arms shall not be challenged.” This is a paraphrased version of what is contained in the original constitutional document. Nonetheless, it captures the spirit of the constitution regarding the issue of guns and their possession thereof.…

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    In the past, gun control had many rules and all have changed as the years go by. For example, (“Georgia passed a law banning all handguns in 1837” a). (“Coming to 1968, the minimum age for purchasing a shotgun is 18 and handguns are 21 and older” b). In the present, gun laws and how society view these laws are both changing rapidly. (“They say that the gun control laws are as old as the nation” e). But that’s not true, (“having the first official laws were placed in 1934, after the Valentine’s…

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    The Futility of Gun Control As gun violence reached an all time high in the world, there has been an ongoing debate over gun control. Gun control is the idea proposed to increase laws and restrictions which will hopefully lead to a decrease in gun violence in the U.S. The opposing viewpoint, claims that gun control is unconstitutional and that firearms benefit society. This issue has now been very controversial as the recent tragic shootings have brought more attention to the situation. The U.S…

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    How do you think about the gun control laws in America?The reason why I ask you is because in 2018, gun incidents rose in severity. Gun control laws should be stricter to assault rifles and long guns that people shouldn’t need to defend themselves or their homes. Weapons akin to assault rifles are extremely deadly hands in of a reckless person such as a teenager, like the school shooting in Florida, where Nikolas Cruz ran into a school and shot and killed at least 17 people with an AR-15.…

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    debate as to whether or not there should be stricter gun control laws made. On February 14, 2018, at 12:18 PM there was a report of a school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Students in the high school, which arose many protests addressing the omitted of stricter gun control. The generation's commitment in demanding gun regulations. There should be stricter gun control laws because of the close minded view of guns in America regarding the second amendment,…

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    Gun Control is an strong issue in the U.S, I personally am against it. I think this because we need a way to protect ourselves from criminals or animals. And some may say criminals will not have guns to commit crimes with. Criminals will find ways to get guns illegally. Also people say it’s not fair to shot a criminal if they have a knife, it should not have to be fair if they are going to rob or kill you The United States has 88.8 guns per 100 people, or about 270,000,000 guns, which is…

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