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    Why Guns Are Bad

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    The United States Constitution gives the right to U.S citizens to carry weapons. It is our right to carry gun's. Citizens must not be banned from owning guns because of a few people miss use in it. It's for our protection. Will control handguns decrease crime? Should handguns only be carried by law officials and military personnel? Handguns do not kill people; “people kill people”. In America, guns have been a part of the countries society since it birth. Throughout history, the citizens of the…

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    The Gun Control Debate

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    Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968. It was called the Gun Control Act of 1968. In 1994, Congress passed bills to restrict certain assault weapons and created a national system of background checks for gun purchase. According to “Gun Control” (New York Times), after the bills were passed, the political pendulum began to swing the other way. There are thirty percent of people that feel gun laws…

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    “Charleston Loophole” which states that gunman received his weapon only because it took longer than three days for his background check to be completed. She clearly wants extensive background checks and certainly new forms of controlling the flow of guns in the public market. For some of Clinton’s followers, she’s in the clear. Trump, interestingly enough, opposes general gun control but roots for a longer waiting period and banning assault weapons. It seems he remains neutral on the subject and…

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    The 2nd 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”. Many Americans believe in and benefit from this right, however, the freedom to bear arms at times may come with significant and sometimes deadly consequences. The right to bear arms is a relatively easy process. Americans are victims to innocent deaths such as murders and accidental shootings due to the ease at which one…

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    When the founding fathers said: "A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined..." they do say that people can have the right to bear arms but that they should be disciplined (to be able to understand how to handle a gun and know the dos and don’ts. People should not be careless about guns and only having them just because they want to. Under which they really need protection from someone is when they should have a gun. On April 20, 1999 eighteen and seventeen year old Dylan Klebold…

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    Every state has the right to make their own laws. One major law states govern is the 2nd amendment. The right to bear arms. Every state has their own opinion on this law. States are making stricter gun laws because of gun violence and they are trying to stop it. Some laws have helped with gun violence but states that have more and stricter gun laws have higher crime rates related to guns. States that don’t allow the purchase of guns without filling out a lot of paperwork makes people find…

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    The American people should have the right to bears, however in a reasonable manner conditionally; thus an arms control policy is necessary. For uniformity’s sake nation-wide, it would be imperative that policy be enacted federally. Gun control is a rather controversial issue that has been discussed at length in various settings, judicial and social. The argument for gun control is largely fueled by the rate of accidental shootings, suicides and more recently mass shootings such as Sandy Hook…

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    voluntarily surrender their guns.” Citizen acquirement with guns is not only a worldwide problem but a state issue as well. Shiha states that “there are approximately three hundred million guns in the country. If the government wanted to take these weapons away from citizens it would have already been done. If something like that was to occur it would cause even more damage and distress to the world. Outbreaks would occur and shortly after that the deaths of innocent or not innocent…

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    Do Guns Kill or Save? One bullet, from one shot, from one gun, is all it takes. One small little bullet travelling so fast, that one cannot see it coming. This little bullet propels itself toward a body, and when it hits the body and pierces the skin, a whole life can change. When this bullet pierces a skull, or tears open a beating heart, everything changes. In a split second everything, every potential this person could’ve fulfilled, has vanished. This is all a result of one bullet, from one…

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    By owning a gun are you able to protect your family or really hurt them? A story about a young boy who having known his mother hid a gun under her bed, retrieved the gun. The boy did this to show it to his neighbor, and ended up shooting the neighbor in the neck. This shows you that kids do not understand the power a gun has and the harm it can do to people. Why would you want to risk that happening to your child or to have him do it to another? On the other hand, you also never know when…

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