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A man with red curly hair walks through the door and sits in the front row. No one suspects him of anything. The lights go down; the room goes quite. Approximately twenty minutes into the movie, the man receives a phone call. He stands up and exits through an emergency exit leaving it propped open to return. A couple minutes later, he re-enters wearing a gas mask, SWAT gear and holding a shotgun, rifle, two pistols, and two cans of tear gas. Tossing the tear gas into the audience, they never…

Columnist Nicholas Kristof wrote an article titled “Our Blind Spot about Guns,” which was published in The New York Times in 2014. In the article’s context, he “argues that if guns and their owners were regulated in the same way that cars and their drivers are, thousands of lives could be saved each year” (Kristof 161). He incorporates multiple statistics in his essay, provides us with insights from the opposing side, and compares the issue of gun control to one that occurred a century ago:…

“The Guns and Soul of America,” David Brooks, Oct. 6, 2017 The piece “The Guns and Soul of America” by David Brooks, questions the seemingly obvious belief: that as there is an increase in violent deaths and mass shootings involving privately owned firearms, there should also be an increase in stricter gun laws, and a downturn in popular opinion regarding gun ownership. Instead, in his column, Brooks writes to prove that the opposite is the case - that as the instances of mass shootings occur,…

In Nicholas Kristof article, “Our Blind Spot About Guns,” he argues, if we can make cars safer, we should be able to do the same with guns. In the article, Kristof states, “if we had the same auto fatality rate today that we had in the 1921, by my calculations we would have 715,000 Americans dying annually in vehicle (161).” With this being said he is trying to imply that cars use have high death rates, but the government added regulations which lowered the death rate. If we are able to add…

Don’t be deceived into blaming a pistol, when the blame should be on the one who pulled the trigger. Money is no more evil than a loaded firearm that can be used in virtue or nefariously. However, it is not intrinsically so. Thus, money can create a benevolent man; in which a crony capitalist will use it solely to enrich themselves through the exertion of others. Nonetheless, if money is used appropriately; it can provide one with cardinal needs; and, just as guns defend people and fire is used…

Banning firearms reduces crime rate, gun trafficking, and the amount of lives lost to firearms. The amount of deaths by firearms became outrageous. 34,000 people get killed every year by firearms. Firearms brutally murder 13 children a day. Growing up in the United States gives someone a 12 times more likely chance to be murdered by a gun than kids from all other more developed nations combined (Join Together 1). There are more clubs for guns than McDonald’s in the United States (Han 2). In…

Gun safety can cut down on accidental shooting that lead to death! Gun safety is a real problem that you can help fix. Today I will be backing this statement uo with gun safety rules, when you should start your kids off and teach them how to use a gun ,and more good rules to always follow. First, gun safety has its rules so no one gets injured or it reduces the possibility to get injured. Backing this up always keep the muzzle pointed in a safe direction.This is a basic and important safety…

Imagine: school shootings, terrorist attacks, world wars, and armies all without one thing, guns. The world has changed in many ways over time since the invention of the gun itself, and quite a few things could have happened completely different or even yet, not at all without this one invention. Nonetheless, the gun has also brought a form of protection to society, and several could argue that its creation was for the better. So how would the world be different if the gun had never been…

place. There needs to be a ban and major restrictions on weapons that can endanger the lives of many. While the republicans have their side to these political issues in the United States, the democratic candidates do as well and they are completely the opposite of what the republicans have proposed. Bernie Sanders, a democratic candidate suggests that education should not be deprived to anyone and therefore announces that he wants two years of state colleges to be tuition free. Stated in an…

Guns Don’t Kill Every year guns are used over 80 times more often to protect a life than to take one.(Guns In America). Donald Trump argued that tighter gun laws would not help at all in preventing mass shootings, but just make it worse, saying that people with mental illness will always "slip through the cracks." (Stricter Gun Laws). No matter what laws the government makes, criminals will still always get their hands on guns, but “the only thing that stops a bad person with a gun is a good…