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    The topic is “by providing more education on guns to school aged children (aged 5 to 18) the number of accidental shootings will be reduced.” The problem statement is that to many individuals die in shootings every day. Nearly 48 youth are shot every day, including 7 fatalities. By providing children with proper knowledge and training on how to handle a gun the number of incidents will be reduced. The population for research will be the entire United States. Stratified sampling will be used due…

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    Gun Control in America It is obvious that a gun can’t grow legs and shoot itself. Why do so many think this way? It is because a lot of people do not use their brain. According to Ashley Fantz, Lindsey Knight, and Kevin Wang the “U.S averages 1 shooting every 5 weeks” (Fantz, Knight, and Wang). This statistic is one reason that gun control has become a well-known problem in the United States and will remain until we apply several basic solutions. Although, there are many solutions to fix…

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    Political Cartoon Analysis Guns are the subject of much controversy and debate in the United States, especially with the increase of gun related violence in recent years. In this analysis I will be comparing and contrasting two political cartoons with opposing views concerning America’s gun politics. The first political cartoon that I have chosen to analyse was created by David Horsey and published in Hearst Newspapers in 2011. This cartoon is colored, and divided horizontally into two…

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    Force or Guns Are Not Needed All the Time Twelve year old Tamir Rice was playing around in the park with his black BB gun and next thing he knows he is shot. The last thing he sees is his sister running to him, screaming. Then there was Antonio Martinez, who was twenty one years old and had Down syndrome was given no warning when he was pepper sprayed, and tackled to the ground for seeming suspicious. While it might be necessary to use force to apprehend a suspect in a wrong doing, it is not…

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    Guns are not a weapon, they are a tool. Many people around the world believe in the saying that “Guns kill people” for the simple fact that when a human pulls the trigger on the gun it can kill someone but if you think about what was just said “people kill people.” Guns are a tool that help everyone feel safe and at ease. In the stories, “ Second Inaugural Address” by Abraham Lincoln, “ What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” by Frederick Douglass, and “Runagate Runagate” by Robert Hayden…

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    teachers are allowed an advantage in protecting the kids they are responsible for? Criminals that shoot up schools are cowards and have no common regard for human life. Gun control is an overwhelming debate in this day and age, people believe that guns kill people when in reality it is people that kill people. People are so afraid of guns that they take them out of the hands of everyone they can, including teachers who have the ability to stop a huge amount of heartache and death. Which in…

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    Civil War Weapons Throughout the Civil War, many weapons were used. The Civil War marked an era of advancements in both weapons and technology. Guns made the Civil War as brutal as it is and caused the deaths of thousands of Americans, but without them many problems would have arisen. Crime would be everywhere on the streets and slavery would still exist. The Civil War shaped our country for the better, and made us the great nation that we are. Before the war, soldiers had used muskets to…

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    Twelve Angry Men Analysis

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    Don't try to make yourself believe in something that didn't happen. For example in the play " twelve angry men" Reginald Rose include these two witnesses with reasonable doubt. There was an old woman and old man who made themselves believe in things they didn't actually see. First the play mentioned the old man in scene one. In this scene it states why the old man made himself believe in what he saw and heard. The old man believes he saw the young boy run fast down the hall. During the young…

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    watched me as I took the rifle and I walked closer to the crazy old dog. This was the moment that I could either prove my children wrong or it was the time that I would miss. I concentrated on the barrell, slowing pulling the trigger. I brought the gun to my shoulder and shot. Crack! I saw Tim flop over, lying there…

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    Pheasant Hunt Narrative

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    go and it was youth season. I went out to my dog Max’s kennel and he was just as excited as I was. We went out and I got the gun loaded and we started out. In the car I my adrenaline was racing and it was my first time pheasant hunting. Although I was a bit nervous it was good. When we got out to the field my dad showed me how to load and unload a gun and how to cock the gun. We started on the long and tiring journey ahead of us. It was a wet morning with a bit of rain the last night and dew.…

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