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    crimes and the government believes that in order to reduce the crime rate, guns should be banned. However, this is not the answer because people need guns for self defense, it has been proven that having more guns diminishes the amount of crimes, and that there has been no gun control study that has proven to be effective. For centuries, guns have done more to benefit people than to disservice them. Colonists having access to guns helped them to rise up against the British in America’s fight…

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    Humans invented guns for other humans of all races and genders to be able to protect themselves. A gun is a firearm which the shooter loads shells, if a shotgun, or cartridges, if a rifle or pistol, into. When one pulls the trigger of a firearm, the hammer is released, hitting the primer on the shell or cartridge. The struck primer creates a micro sized spark, igniting the gunpowder, sending a deadly piece of lead, or other material, flying. Without guns and the proper ammunition to be used,…

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    known to many people during this time as an inventor. He invented many field artillery used during the Civil War. The cannon had many steps in which to actually fire the cannon. Soldiers would place the gun powder in the back of the barrel, and the cannon ball was placed in front. Afterwards the gun powder would then be lighted causing the cannon ball to projectile…

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    Gun Control Ordinances

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    public health, safety and welfare through strict gun-control ordinances. They are undermining gun-control ordinances since there is a profitable market for illegal firearms in Milwaukee. Firearm manufacturers design and advertise their guns to appeal to the significant market for illegal firearms. This includes those who wish to use them for criminal purposes. Firearm dealers are aware that these multiple purchasers are one way in which guns…

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    Personal Narrative: Bphoo

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    “PCHOOOOO,” the guns shot,”BPHOOOO” I was getting tired of the sound of gun shots. My ears felt like they were going to bleed. I was at a shooting range, getting ready for the war. People were recruiting soldiers to go to the war. There were supposed to be one man from each household to go to the war. Luckily, we had open area to build ranges, or else I wouldn’t even know how to load a gun! I wasn’t alone practicing my shooting. My friends came to the practice two. For fun, we dress up hay bags…

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    and more school shootings and public massacres happening everyday, the overall concern of gun control in the United States of America has become one of the most politicized topics over the past year. With elections coming up in the next year, there is no better time to address these current problems and ways to go about creating change for a better and safer society. It is clear there are two sides to this gun control issue and there needs to be a solution that will please both sides as well as…

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    Gun laws fill enormous gaps that exist in our nation’s federal laws and also help reduce gun violence and keep the citizens safe. Most of the countries that with the strongest gun laws have the lowest gun death rate. The mass shooting in schools in America is done by kids having control over guns. Diane Dimond, a reporter and journalist who published the article “Kids and Guns and Public Safety” argues that to prevent future mass shootings, gun owners need to take personal responsibility. Diane…

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    a Knife Get a Dog, but Rid of Guns” written by Molly Ivins, She strongly speaks out against the use of guns. In this story, there are many times when the writer contradicts herself when she is trying to prove her point. This story is mainly about how the writer thinks no civilian should have the right to own a gun. She thinks that regular people are not responsible enough to own a gun and that is why they should be outlawed. Throughout the story I felt that guns should be regulated but not…

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    Gun Control Every time we flip on the news we see a new story explaining a shooting in Chicago. Drive-by shootings are so common now in Chicago that we barely have time to explain one story without skipping to the next current one. To assume that we do not have a problem with guns in the Chicago/Illinois community is wrong. This is a nationwide problem as we have seen with mass shootings and the increasing numbers of deaths nationwide from gunshot wounds. Just this weekend as I began to write…

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    Teachers with Guns Columbine High School, Sandy Hook Elementary, Virginia Tech, and Umpqua Community College… All are schools that we know very well, not because their great education or numerous awards but for sad tragic events that have filled our televisions and newspapers far too often. Archbishop Alexander K. Sample released a letter after the Umpqua Community College shooting stating, "Sadly, we live in the midst of culture that does not value the dignity and sacredness of every human…

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