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that social problems arise from the major contradictions inherent in the capitalist economies. What part do guns play in a capitalist economy? This question can be answered in a few different ways, one way would be to look at the laws governing the sale and distribution of firearms. While another way, would be looking at the different companies that make the firearms. Though the role guns play in a capitalist economy can’t be defined just by the laws and manufacturers. You have to look at…

It is estimated that 2.5 million civilians defend themselves and their families from criminals by using a gun every year or 6,850 times per day. In December of 2007, 24 year old Matthew Murray went on a killing spree starting at a YWAM training facility where he killed two and woundeding two others before moving to his next destination. Murray then arrived at the New Life Church in Colorado Springs still carrying a number of firearms. Murray killed two more people and injured three before he…

says Paul Waldman of The Week. What injured and killed them, you may ask? Guns. Most of them accidental. My topic is gun control. I think that there should be procedures you must take before being able to get a gun. Way too many people die each year from gun related injuries - and nobody is doing anything about it! If terrorists were the ones who were killing 30,000 people a year, just imagine all the restrictions and gun laws we would have. Instead, we are just letting more and more people get…

to kill or be abused in the past. An example of a non-lethal weapon like this is a stun gun. Stun guns are created to release an electric shock meant to disable someone. Many police departments have adopted using stun guns in their departments in an attempt to lower the amount of shootings. However, they must also accept that tasers can still be deadly or abused. According to an article by NBC News, if a stun gun is used for a few seconds too long, the voltage (which could reach 50,000 Volts)…

year because of guns. There are murders, gangs murders, school shootings and mass killings. These things happen every year. Gun control should take action and stop the killings. Gun control should be more strict, because it would decrease mass killings, decrease suicide rates, and decrease gang murders. The number of death would decrease if there are more strict gun control. If gun control were more strict about guns, there would be less killings. The United States has 88.8 guns per 100 people,…

States of America, the sound of a gun fires through the air on average of ninety nine times, ending a human being’s life (“Gun Violence by the Numbers”). This huge number is not new to the American society though, these fatal gun shootings have been occurring for decades. Government officials and politicians have been trying to reduce these deaths with the help of gun control. Gun control is defined as the, “regulation of the selling, owning, and use of guns” (“Gun Control”). These officials…

Confiscation Of The Gun Legislation In this country we are at the point of Gun control legislation, that the government is trying to save lives, but also putting the lives of citizens at risk by making it even more ridiculous on obtaining a gun legally, and in turn making the law abiding citizen turn down the route that the criminal would to obtain their guns. Sadly, our government is tirelessly still trying to construct the process and creating it more difficult and to take away that much more…

Imagine, one of your rights being taken away from you, or being restricted. That’s happening right now. Gun control is being inflicted after the Oregon shooting in a community college. In 2011 a gun was used in 323 murders, that same year a hammer was used in 496 murders (Hawkins). Clearly a household item is just as dangerous as a gun, especially when it’s in the hands of someone who desires to do wrong. Most people don’t understand that you don’t blame the tool that is used, you blame the…

with mental issues, drug addictions and criminals should not be the ones in possession of a gun. The problem at hand is not guns per say, as guns do not kill people, rather people with guns, kill people. Firstly, depriving citizens of their right to possess a gun will in no way prevent them from doing just that. So as this may deflate the crime problem in a country, it will in no way rectify it. Secondly, guns are needed by the people of a country for self defence so that they are not deemed…

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…