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armed crimes happen in public places such as schools and banks. For example, the top two mass shootings in United States history were the Virginia Tech shooting and the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. The Virginia Tech shooting occurred in Blacksburg, Virginia on April 16, 2007 and the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting took place in Newtown, Connecticut on December 14, 2012. The Virginia Tech shooting was initiated by a 23-year-old who kills 32 people, wounds countless others, then…

It is the championship football game. Lauderdale County is up 36 to 35, however, the opposing team is just 5 yards away from a touch down with 3.2 seconds remaining. “What are we going to do captain?”, asked Joseph. “We have got to rush the line of scrimmage and blitz the lineman and go for the sack,” said Junior, the captain. “All right men, let’s win this football game!” Everyone replied in a loud chant, “Ready… Break!” The football players took their position and were pumped and ready for…

Gun control supporters are supporting gun control to try and stop school shootings. Some of the biggest mass shootings that are helping to increase gun control support are “Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado; Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia; a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado; Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.”4 Because of these shooting the general populace of the United States have started to fear firearms more than they use to fear the weapons. These…

With all the gun related violence and school shootings that have happened lately in the United States there has been a lot of talk about whether or not there should be a gun reform. Some people argue that there should be a gun reform with stricter gun laws in order to prevent more gun related violence and crimes from happening. Some others believe that a gun reform is not necessary. They believe that stricter gun laws would cause more gun related violence. The United States should put a gun…

The second amendment of the constitution 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." The second amendments mean that: to keep the country free from too much control, the people are allowed to keep and use their firearms. Under any circumstance this right shall not be violated .Since it’s our right why is there so many limitations and restrictions. If it’s our right to have fire arms…

The United States is known for many things: freedom, baseball, the Kardashians, and obesity. Some of these things are positive, while others point to a decaying society. But what issue is currently at the forefront of concern in America? School shootings. “School shootings” is such a prominent topic and will not be put to rest until the action itself is put to rest. Guns have played an enormous role in America for many, many centuries. Guns are such a popular topic that there is even an…

Gun control is one of the most controversial and sensitive topics in the United States to date. Firearms kill on average 33,563 people, and injure 81,396 people annually (“Assault”). The right to bear arms as stated in the second amendment in United States Constitution has organizations like the National Rifle Association (NRA), and millions of patriotic Americans clinging to their guns. Those fighting for gun control argue that assault weapons serve no purpose in the hands of citizens, and in…

Mina Mikhail 12/5/2015 English 4 Research Paper on Gun Control Guns Don’t Kill People, But People Kill People Us as americans we are a gun culture. in 2009 about 124 million people lived in households owned a total of 270 million guns. So that means that we are obsessed with guns. But the question now is: what do we know about guns? how many of us actually used one or seen a gun that being used? How many of us seen people pointing a gun at each other or seen someone actually killing other?…

Columbine shooting On a normal school day at Columbine High School, students were attending lunch and doing class work in the library not expecting anything in particular to happen. Actually no one in the U.S. expected or was ready for what came to be on April 20, 1999 to the 1,945 students attending Columbine High School. On April 20,1999 at 11:19 a.m. two Columbine students wearing trench coats went on a rampage outside of the school shooting students and staff. The students were Eric Harris…

Second Amendment “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” (Archives, 2016). Gun control topic relates to criminal law and criminal procedures by giving a punishment to the defendant if individual violated the law or a police officer violated citizen’s rights. Most states allow people to bear a gun, but some of them not. So it depends the state law a person will be punished by bearing a gun.…