Gun politics in the United States

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    We have always been people who revered their country. It is our home, where freedom is of highest value. For 240 years the men of the United States of America have boasted their inalienable right to the pursuit of happiness. Hundreds of thousands of people dreamt of their new lives in America, and even died trying to achieve the ultimate state of freedom. However, no amount of religious freedom or freedom of speech, or peaceful protests will provide a tranquil mind. The darkest secret of the…

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    The Fight against Gun Control “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people”, An argument used by many gun advocates. There are millions of gun owners across America. We use these firearms in our daily lives. Citizens of America use them for self-defense, target practice, hunting, and the most important from a tyrannical government. Our second amendment states that the United States Of America has the right to bear arms, but it seems that some citizens of America want to make it harder for us to…

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    Ban the Idiots, not the Guns “Guns don’t kill people” -NRA(National Rifle Association unofficial slogan). There is a problem in America, and it is gun violence. Gun violence affects people every day across the country. Gun can help people, but also kill people. But, there is not a simple answer to this problem. Gun Control has been is a controversial topic in the United States in the past few years. Both political parties have their own option on gun control. Republicans believe that…

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    recognizable as the First Amendment. It allows people to not only use firearms, but to provide them in defense and protection (“Second Amendment”). It is divisive due to the fact that many people have different opinions on what the Amendment actually states. Some citizens believe that it is meant protect the rights of the people to own firearms only if they are included in a militia, while others believe that it protects the rights of the citizens to provide self-defense (Hart 136). The fact…

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    Gun Violence

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    In the United States, over 30,000 people are fatally injured by firearms every year. However, progress on acts and laws that attempt to restrict the distribution and sales of weapons often times comes to a screeching halt, as the use of personal firearms has been an important part of America’s history. While there are concrete and sufficient arguments for the use of guns in the United States, a myriad amount of statistics has shown that the fact of the matter is, personal firearms cause much…

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    are a number of gun related injuries that happen all across the US. About 580 people are either injured or killed by guns each day (Nick Wing 7). Gun control is the effort to limit the possession and use of guns. The gun control debate may be a standout amongst the most imperative issues in our general public. The U.S. Supreme Court decided in 2008 that the second Amendment controls the administration 's capacity to ban handguns. A few republican politicians are enthusiastic about gun ownership…

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    Why Do We Use Gun Control

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    Are guns that bad of a thing? Guns have been around for almost 700 years. Most people use guns for hunting to supply their family with food, to protect themselves, and for many other reasons. The government wants to basically take that away from United States Citizens with gun control. The United States Government should not enforce gun control on United States Citizens. The second amendment clearly states that US Citizens have the right to bear arms. Because of this amendment, “Americans have…

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    Gun Control Cons

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    Gun control can be defined as, “any action taken by the federal government or by state or local governments to regulate, through legislation, the sale, purchase, safety, and use of handguns and other types of firearms by individual citizens” (Lee). America has internally debated the issue of gun control for over a century. It continues to be an important and pressing issue today in the United States. There are no set standards for gun control. Each state varies in its laws. For example,…

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    Gun Control Theory

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    Discussion Previous studies, which examine the effect of gun control laws have generally failed, with the exception of a few, to discover a statistically significant gun control effect on the violent crime rate. This present study is concurrent with inferences drawn from previous studies about their inability to discover statistically significant gun control effects. After conducting our analyses there was not a statistically significant effect, with the exception of one relationship, on…

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    people struggle for gun control they are basically asking the criminals to attack them. Many sensible Americans just want the protection a gun provides and there are people serving our nation in defense our rights as proud Americans. Guns promote self-defense and safety. Many people interpret “right to bear arms” in a number of ways; to see why people with guns are regarded as criminals. Guns must be visualized as a tool and tools are used for a purpose and our right to have guns is for a…

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