Gun politics

The liberal ideology behind gun ownership takes the stance that some type of gun restriction or ban should be imposed to control the gun violence in the United States. The vast majority would be for an imposed restriction, while the farther left and fewer liberals would suggest for an all-out ban or ban on certain guns. Furthermore, believing that the gun is what causes the crime. If the gun was restricted in some way people would not have the ability to cause such harm to the general welfare of…

their guns from someone else very veiw purchase them themselves. That was how Dylan and Eric got their four guns, they got them from a close friend and previous girlfriend of Dylan, her name is Anderson and she received them from someone else to get around them being underage(“Where’d They Get”). The two boys purchased all four guns for five hundred dollars. One shooter that was able to purchase his own guns and get around the background check was Seung-Hui Cho who bought his from an online gun…

Thesis: Though guns can be used for protection, guns should not be allowed on college campuses because guns make college students feel uncomfortable, the abuse of guns has claimed many college students’ lives and guns can threaten the safety of college campuses. I. The presences of guns on college campuses make students feel anxious. A. A survey conducted, shows the majority of students (79%) felt uneased about strangers, faulty and fellow students carrying guns on campuses (Journal of American…

Gun Restriction Guns have become a potent weapon in the United States and are responsible for claiming the lives of many humans. On average, guns are fired at roughly 268 citizens every day (11 Facts About Guns). With guns being the source for a vast majority of injuries and death in our country, a solution needs to arise. A common argument that often arises is that humans are responsible for gun shootings and not guns. Although this statement is true and people are responsible for gun usage,…

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…

convincing them that guns are scary and are murder weapons, they do the same things with knives. For example, if a civilian buys a Ka-bar knife (standard marine issue), it is no different than a kitchen knife. Getting a little deeper on the subject, a person could just as easily commit a crime such as murder with a kitchen knife as with the knife previously stated, so are people going to ban kitchen knives too? Of course not, so why ban other knives? Why ban guns? If we ban guns, then the only…

reinforced by Celinska (2007) in the article “Individualism and Collectivism in America: The Case of Gun Ownership and Attitudes toward Gun Control”. The author conducted a study to determine if gun ownership, and if attitudes towards gun ownership by citizens residing in the United States correlates to cultural traditions. The study found that there are two primary reasons for people who own guns in the United States, which are…

Dennis Dinardo is going to be prosecuted for reckless disregard to human life because of the amount of danger he put everyone in. This is the right way to go because he was correct that Washington had a gun and was running with a purpose after the shots were fired. Charging Dinardo with attempted murder would be too much because he was right to take the shots he did and not charging him would not be right either because he fired multiple shots into crowd of chaos. The race of both men is not…

The actions of gun activists who wish to not have the AR-15 banned are constitutional, because the constitution says we have a right to bear arms in the name of protecting ourselves. The AR-15 is a highly controversial gun which has led to several deaths as a result of misuse of the weapon. It is an extremely sad reality that there are so many lives lost, when it comes to what is supposed to be something used for protection. The AR-15 has been used in several shootings, examples being the Aurora…

In New York City, a homeless man named Hugo Alfredo Tale-Yax was stabbed several times by a mugger but his unmoving body didn’t catch anybody's attention. The way how this happened was that the mugger was trying to rob a lady but the good willing samaritan Tale-Yax, tried to stop the robbery but instead he was stabbed and bled to death. When the lady was there she left the homeless man before he had collapsed. The lady seems to be yet unidentified. 20 eyewitnesses passed by and just ignored him…