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Gun Control Kailey Bergamo Ms. Gigliotti English III Honors Period 3 1 March 2016 According to www.leg.state.co.us, “A citizen with a gun stopped a knife-wielding man as he began stabbing people in a Salt Lake City store.” Also, “Two men retrieved firearms from their cars and stopped a mass murder at the Appalachian School of Law.” Citizens should be able to carry guns, concealed or not, for a variety of reason, including protection and sports. The question of gun control is constantly…

Do you think guns should be banned in the United States? According to the National center for Injury Prevention and Control, “Every day on average, 55 people kill themselves with a firearm, and 46 people are shot or killed in an accident with a gun.” My own experience supports this viewpoint. My grandmother easily feels threatened by guns. Once when she was going to get out of her car, somebody put a gun to her head. However, he fled quickly because of a crowd of people. Guns can be scary and…

Gun control is a controversial topic to be talked about considering the pros and cons that come along with it. The pros being the control of having a gun in order to have a sense of protection, our right to bear arms and less death rates. On the other side cons being restricting a person to their own personal safety and diminishing personal hobbies such as hunting, and job related activities by not having guns being allowed at all. Guns come with responsibility and consequences that can occur if…

Bearing Arms After the tragic event of Sandy Hook, the NRA’s executive vice president and CEO, Wayne LaPierre, responded with: "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun” (Moore). LaPierre’s statement foresees the future of educational faculty members becoming capable of protecting the well-being of themselves and students with an armed weapon. This weapon will be active when a threat is applied. To explain this threat, one must engage themselves to reflect on the…

Media, peers, and unrealistic ideas of fairy tales with happy endings lead society to hold high standards for men and their masculinity. In the film, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, John Ford demonstrates that Western societies often forced those roles onto males. Masculinity, being a remarkable characteristic to display, seems to be connected with his morals. Morals relate to the person’s decision-making, either with confrontation or emotions about a situation, personal beliefs will be…

David Hemenway’s article ‘Does owning a gun Make you safer’ states that the gun ownership in the United States does not make American people safer. He gave a lot of data and mentioned the surveys to counter his statements and make aware of people about the effects of guns in the American society. David Hemenway, a policy scholar, author and professor of Harvard school of Public Health, is a columnist of Los Angeles Times, LA, and (Wikipedia). He has a Ph. D in economics from Harvard University.…

“U.S Model Percussion Pistol 1842” Henry Aston Middleton, Conn. The pistol was manufactured by Henry Aston and Ira Johnson of Middleton, Connecticut. The U.S model 1842 percussion pistol was a single shot percussion pistol used in the Civil war and also in the war against Mexico in 1847 to 1848. Henry Aston was an immigrant from the United States from England in 1819. Henry Aston founded his own company in 1843. The gun also saw considerable use on the Oregon Trail. Henry Aston…

Gun control in America is a significant issue, with an average of 91 gun related deaths per day, it is a matter that can no longer be ignored. Being controversial in its nature, author Phoebe Maltz Bovy doesn 't hesitate to shed light on her opinion on the affair. In her article “It’s Time to Ban Guns. Yes, All of Them.” Bovy is quick to state that all guns are bad regardless of their purpose or the respective owner, that they’re all nothing more than dangerous machines. However, in her…

Divergent was wrote by Veronica Roth and published on April 5, 2011. This book is the beginning of the Divergent series which have to other books Insurgent and then Allegiant. Divergent is about a girl that lives in an enclosed community and divided by factions. The faction’s names are Abnegation, Dauntless, Candor, Erudite, and Amity. Abnegation is a faction that values selflessness most. Dauntless are supposed to be brave and fearless. Candor is always honest and they never lie. Amity is the…

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…