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    emerging due to the increased insecurity issues, massacres, and rampant killings that occur in schools, public places, and homes due to private ownership of guns. However, those who support the private possession of guns also argue that it is a critical weapon for self defense. Nonetheless, I would like to argue that gun possession should be controlled and that no individual should be allowed to own private gun unless there are justified reasons to do that as is the case with VIPs (Wuest 112).…

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    In Linda Hasselstrom’s essay “A Peaceful Woman Explains Why She Carries a Gun,” she uses a casual chain with episodes to organize the causes and effects; a few rhetorical devices, such as anaphora and procatalepsis; a negative connotation vocabulary; a variety of sentence structure with powerful basic sentences; and a conversational style to convey why a peaceful woman carries a gun. Hasselstrom organizes her essay by using a chronological casual chain. She begins with “As a freelance writer I…

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    control, and this ad serves to stir up that controversy and get people talking. The image depicts two children sitting in a bleak school library. One is holding a children's fairytale book, Little Red Riding Hood, while the other is holding an assault weapon. Both children have unhappy faces. The lighting is dim, and the coloring is abnormal. It is telling the story of how an innocent children's story has been banned while people are losing their lives because of the gun laws. It was released…

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    population by convincing them that guns are scary and are murder weapons, they do the same things with knives. For example, if a civilian buys a Ka-bar knife (standard marine issue), it is no different than a kitchen knife. Getting a little deeper on the subject, a person could just as easily commit a crime such as murder with a kitchen knife as with the knife previously stated, so are people going to ban kitchen knives too? Of course not, so why ban other knives? Why ban guns? If we ban guns,…

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    The officer made the right call because of all the facts that he had learned in the short time since he heard the gunshots. He heard gunshots got off the train and saw two men who appeared to be carrying weapons running toward the other side of the station. Both of the men who had the guns were running with a purpose, Dinardo did not know what that purpose was but he acted because he felt that he and many others were in critical danger. One witness claims…

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    a result of misuse of the weapon. It is an extremely sad reality that there are so many lives lost, when it comes to what is supposed to be something used for protection. The AR-15 has been used in several shootings, examples being the Aurora theatre shooting, the Clackamas Mall shooting, and the shooting of 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary. People who are against this gun’s use point to the shootings and say that it is not a good idea to have a military grade weapon on the streets. Gun…

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    debate about the school shootings instead ignoring the topic. The schools could have training at their schools to prepare for the shootings. Another way is to have background check for the ownership, tracking the guns, banned on the automatic assault weapon and to prevented other mental ill people to not able to buy the guns. Third is the U.S. people should have the licensed for…

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    More people have been shot by the police than people that died during the Iraq War*. Cops cannot be trusted with these weapons, as is shown in the Mike Brown case in Ferguson, where police officer Darren Wilson shot unarmed teenager Mike Brown and didn’t get arrested. Since January 1st, 735 people have been killed by police officers, a number which is still rising**.Without…

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    amended on the type of guns that citizens bear. But, as soon as anyone mentioned about the "The Second Amendment" the next words that followed, is this Oh, they want to take away our guns. No one wants to take away guns, but who need high powered weapons to do hunting. How many shots do you need to take to hunt for your food or play sports? People with mental health issues also commit atrocities with guns. There need to have some form change with…

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    having more gun laws in America would lessen the number of murders in America, however I think that having more strict gun control laws would do nothing to stop criminals from getting guns or killing people. Criminals will always find a way to get weapons. To prove this, handguns in the UK have been banned since 1998 and the murders have actually rose in numbers. For this reason I think gun control laws would not stop criminals from getting guns There’s still murder in countries where guns are…

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