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    Why Do Guns Kill People?

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    The absence regulatory laws to buy or allow the use of a firearm and the laws on how old someone has to be to handle a weapon cause way too many unnecessary and avoidable deaths in the United States of America. The absence of a single background check could cause unimaginable grief and suffering to those who are…

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    There two side to every argument and that is also said about gun control there are the people that want more gun control and the people who want it stay the same or lessen it. Gun control describes how firearms may be legally produced, sold, and used. Laws that regulate who can and who can’t buy firearm. To provide requirements for registration, licensing, and carrying of concealed weapons. The NRA or the National Rifles Accusation seem to be the most against gun control of the National…

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    Lack Of Gun Control Essay

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    wide problem, its’ effects are amplified in the United States of America. The American infatuation with firearms goes back to the Constitutional Convention, where our founding fathers deemed the right to own firearms so important that they put it as the second amendment in the US constitution (Words with positive connotation). However, this constitutional right has made the United States a firearm nation, captivated with all things gun related. Americans feel so strongly about their right to…

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    amendment is a constitutional right, firearms have changed drastically. When the constitution was written guns we only able to fire three bullets per minute compared to the guns we have now such as the AR-15 that can shoot anywhere from thirty to one hundred rounds in a short amount of time. There has been an estimated 1042 mass shootings in the United States since the sandy hook shooting in 2012. While Mass shootings are…

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    Gun Smuggling Research Paper

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    The United States is known as “the land of opportunity,” and in recent years, powerful drug cartels have taken the opportunity of firearms laws in the United States and purchased hundreds of thousands of weapons to use in their drug wars. The border states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas have differing laws to control the populations access to firearms. For example, California has an outright ban on weapons with a detachable magazine holding more than ten rounds of ammunition and…

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    Strict Gun Laws

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    Throughout American history we as citizens have been able to possess and purchase firearms. Consequently, with the ownership of firearms just like the ownership of anything else, it is abused. Through this abuse there has been only one irrational reaction and that would be stricter gun control laws. However, the government, ill-advised on what to do about it imposes stricter and stricter laws but what they do not realize is that they are taking them away from those who are truly responsible…

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    Gun Law Research Paper

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    the United States, then it is hard to see what it could be. At the Last Stop outdoor firing range in the Mohave desert, outside Las Vegas, a slightly-built, nine-year old girl was being taught to fire a lethal automatic weapon, in the form of an Uzi sub-machine gun. Her unfortunate firearms instructor died, after he was shot was shot in the head, because the recoil on the powerful gun was too strong for her weak wrists, and it jumped upward and backward, meaning that one round went through the…

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    Gun Violence Case Study

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    about the endless violence throughout history involving guns. She mentions how people are lobbying for gun control as well as Government leaders who promise to offer some type of solution that would prevent horrendous acts of brutality linked to firearms. However, there is the opposite force, which is the National Rifle Association that is also lobbying to prevent stricter gun control. Beck (2016) also stresses on how gun violence has been a major player as back as the massacres that took place…

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    Gun Control Regulation

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    Gun control: government regulation and sale of firearms. So when were guns made legal? Citizens of the United States are able to bear arms because of the the second amendment. The second amendment was ratified in December 1791. This amendment states “ 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.” So when did the debate and use of gun control start? It may have began when the President John F.…

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    The shooter of New Town stole his Mother’s firearms after he killed her. His mother legally owned them. He stole them. Lanza used a AR15 with thirty round magazines. This proves my thesis because the guns were stolen. The son did not go through the system, because he had mental health issues. In this article I could use how Mantel talks about the types of firearms, semi-automatic, automatic, and assault weapons. For my second reason in my research opinion I can use…

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