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    In the year 2013, a report by Fox Nation there were over 600,000 hunters in the state of Wisconsin alone this means there are 600,000 people in one state that own one or more guns. In today’s society, people are afraid of some people getting their hands-on guns in the united states, this is because of the high crime rate that is associated with guns. There have been some strict rules on who can buy a gun, but, out lawing guns would be almost impossible. There’s around 15 million people that use…

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    Essay On Mass Shootings

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    The occurrence of mass shootings and acts of terrorism have become increasingly common in the United States since the twenty-first century. Since 2000, thousands of United States citizens have died as a direct result of mass shootings and acts of terrorism. However, despite the striking similarities in the motives and damage engendered by these crimes, there are significant discrepancies between the classifications and punishments for the crimes. Depending on the crime, state or federal…

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    Hunters’ are a particular group of people who would like having suppressors on their rifles as it’ll keep their hearing from deteriorating from the shooting and are the higher than normal statistic of losing their hearing all together, or having some hearing troubles for life. Another use for suppressors, would be for Self Defence of…

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    According to BBC News, “About 40% of americans own a gun or live in a household with one.” Guns play a big role in the american society. There have been many deaths due to guns but prohibiting them wouldn't have prevented these deaths. There are many reasons to why prohibiting these weapons will do more harm than good. I feel as if federal laws should not prohibit assault weapons because it will basically disengage the second amendment, it disregards americans rights to safety and it will cause…

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    Gun Control Case Study

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    On February 14th, 2018, the 19 year old Nikolas J. Cruz walked into the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida with an AR-15 style rifle, along with a history of behavioral issues. He pulled the fire alarm, and killed 17 people along with injuring 17 more with his weapon. The victims ranged from 14 year old students to 49 year old staff members. Cruz was found by the police about an hour and 15 minutes later, and is now being charged with 17 accounts of premeditated murder…

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    “another” ban on assault rifles and high capacity magazine clips? Lacking a rigid definition, an assault rifle has a set of criteria that includes rapid-fire, and military –style rifles, in which the ban would name specific makes and models as well as magazines that, hold more than ten bullets and exclude them from societal purchase. (Richman). Gun control was designed to prevent crime, however guns don’t kill people, people kill people, and…

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    Gun laws fill enormous gaps that exist in our nation’s federal laws and also help reduce gun violence and keep the citizens safe. Most of the countries that with the strongest gun laws have the lowest gun death rate. The mass shooting in schools in America is done by kids having control over guns. Diane Dimond, a reporter and journalist who published the article “Kids and Guns and Public Safety” argues that to prevent future mass shootings, gun owners need to take personal responsibility. Diane…

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    On April 28th 1996 a gun men armed with a semi-automatic rifle shot and killed 35 people wounding 18, after this the government decided that maybe their gun laws needed to be re-looked at. They implement stricter gun laws and even had gun buyback programs for guns that were decided illegal so that no one was losing money. This lead to lower gun related suicides as well as gun related homicides these dropped 65% and 59% respectfully. This was in Australia of course not is America, because in…

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    Most modern firearms are rifled with the exception of the shotgun. The process of rifling the barrel creates unique patterns. These patterns are called tool mark impressions. The forensic technique of analyzing the impressions left on the bullet is call ballistic fingerprinting. There are two types of strations, class characteristics and individual characteristics. Class characteristics are shared by on type of gun and manufacture, for example a colt peacemaker has 6 lands and grooves left-hand…

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    Essay On Gun Reform

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    reach this goal. There needs to be an equal balance when creating new firearm laws, because the government still needs to cater to the recreational users. There are many different opinions, but I think we need to look a greater sense of gun reform. A national permit-to-purchase, also known as a PTP, would educate citizens further on firearms, also require a more in depth background check. By doing this, I believe the government would gain control of the distribution of…

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