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    Evan Gardiner Gardiner 1 English Ms. H. Bodanis Effectiveness of Gun Control: From Australia to the United States of America On April 28th, 1996, Martin Bryant entered the Broad Arrow café, in Port Arthur, ate a meal and slaughtered 12 people. Port Arthur is a former penal colony on the southeast coast of Tasmania. He committed this atrocity with a semi-automatic rifle. He then left the café and continued through a gift shop, parking lot and finally to a gas station killing 22 more…

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    that they should be banned. In the article “The Case Against Banning Guns” there are many strong arguments against banning guns. I think that the most important point in the article is that even if there very fewer amounts of guns, or if they were less accessible, people who really want to do harm would still find a way to get a gun. In the text, it state’s, “Psychotics and terrorists will always find ways to exploit the cracks.” I am wondering if there were fewer guns accessible would there…

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    including pesticides, firearms and certain medications. The risk of suicide increases dramatically when children and adolescents have admittance to guns at home, and about 60% of all suicides in the United States are submitted with a weapon. That is the reason any weapon in your home ought to be emptied, kept, and kept out of the scope of kids and teenagers. Overdose using over-the-counter, prescription, and non-prescription medicine is additionally an extremely regular technique for both…

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    Concealed Handguns Essay

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    2:Responsble citizens should have the right to arm themselves against criminals with guns. o Rebuttal 2:This is partially true but the problem is who would be the one that determines who is responsible and who isn’t. Also victims who carry a concealed weapon are more likely to be shot in a confrontation that a victim that does not carry. Policy brainstorming: Based on the summary points above, what do you recommend be changed or implemented? Do you want there to be a law put in place – where…

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    there practically is a mass shooting every day according to a mass shooting tracker. Where more than four people die in one incident. This is not even taking into account the number of accidents and gun related violence that result in the death of less than four people. America cannot go on like this. The very things we buy to protects ourselves are the things that our killing us. While I do not believe we should completely get rid of guns, I think there should be tight restrictions on who is…

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    Gun Control Restrictions

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    control restrictions there would be less shootings, less accident with kids obtaining firearm, and prevent fewer suicides. Gun control will decrease crimes. If people that do not need guns do not have them it will lower violent crimes.In cliffnotes.com it states that “More handguns in circulation equals more violent crimes. This explains that if too many firearms are circulating in increases the chance of violent crimes, therefore if there are less guns there will be less violent crimes. If…

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    shall not be infringed.” To many this states that citizens owning guns is important to the protection of our nation and that right will not be limited or ended. However, the government has continuously made laws that restrict and ban the simplest of weapons that have been around for decades. Typically Democrats have favored and created these restrictive laws while Republicans stand by the free right of citizens to bear arms with no limits. Gun control has become a major political topic…

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    enough. A weapon is not some kind of toy that everyone should have, it 's a weapon that is used to cause harm and by enabling everyone to have one would cause fear in the community and would be the start of many conflicts as well. There are many headlines that people cannot believe. Two tennagers frin Colorado opend fire in theri high school, by doing so they killed 12 students and a teacher as well. Gun control is described as the law in order to limit civilians to have access to fire weapons.…

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    variety of ways for hunting, sport, war, and protection. It became the social norm to have at least one stored away in most households. However, over time the tool that was once used for self-defense and as a last resort has now been turned into a weapon of mass destruction. Some might argue for the removal of guns from homes altogether. I on the other hand, have no doubt that guns themselves are not to blame; after all, they have no ulterior motive. The trouble resides in the people who use…

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    Gun Laws Is Bad

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    is to arm them with concealed weapons or in the case of Texas you can openly carry any firearm, for example if you are at a gas station and someone walks in and proceeds to pull out a knife or another weapon to rob the gas station. you would feel more secure if you had a weapon to defend yourself or even stop the crime from continuing any further. Though some presume guns are the cause of crime in reality, it’s the people and their actions they take with a weapon that makes the gun look bad when…

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