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    Gun Show Research Paper

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    Backgrounds check is a process to identify safety and security. Many companies and events requires background check in order to observe their past records, and that includes financial, criminal, mental and employment records. Furthermore, should background checks be regulated at gun shows? Clearly, a gun show could be a hazardous events, and there will be risky without background checks. If background checks are not regulated at gun shows, the event will likely place other people’s life in…

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    In America most houses hold some sort of gun, maybe a pistol or even a rifle. In realization, guns are what people feel that will protect them and their family. The second Amendment states, “A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed” (Sanford). That phrase has been around for a long time, telling us how we are able to keep our guns as we please. Even though Guns are able to protect a person and…

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    knife, and so on. If we only want to control gun ownerships to prevent harm, we also need to think about control other murder weapons. Also, if we have gun control, kids still have chances to play guns, if their parents have legal guns at home. It states that gun control is helpless to avoid kids to use guns. After that, gun control is not a guarantee of reducing deaths. To implement gun control, it means governments restrict the sales, purchases, owning and carrying guns. It is not only…

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    believe that it was meant for those in the military, while others think it was intended for law- abiding citizens to feel protected when there was no one else around to defend them. “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed” (7). Centuries ago, the governments that controlled large nations were known to use soldiers to torment and oppress the people, especially in the privacy of their homes.…

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    I’ll spare you the witty banter and creative intro paragraph and just get to the meat of this article. Gun control. Democrats in the house have staged a sit in to raise awareness about their bills that have failed to pass. They’re hoping to do more than just raise awareness however; these dedicated Democrats want to cause such a fuss that their bills get reviewed again or that Republicans create their own version of gun ownership guidelines. The bills that got shot down were attempting to…

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    Gun Violence Protection Gun control laws in the United States has little effect and they permit the citizens to carry their own weaponry, which has made the U.S into the most violent country in the world. Gun violence has been a serious issue especially in the city of Oakland, California. Residents in some areas do not dare to leave their house after sunset because they are afraid to be another victim in the gunfights. According to Anthony Braga, in the “Center for Problem-Oriented Policing,”…

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    adamantine time obtaining a firearm. First, is the type of gun legislation in place in today’s society. One law in some states allows licensed individuals the privilege to openly carry firearms. Thirty-one states allow the open carry law and only thirteen of those states require some form of licenses or permits (Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence), Delaware is one of thirteen states that require a permit (National Rifle Association). Another law is the concealed carry which allows an individual…

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    Essay On Campus Shooting

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    State legislators are considering revoking gun-free school zones into a place where individuals in a classroom are allowed by permit to carry concealed firearms for safety purposes. This causes a fierce and rigorous debate amongst representatives from each side presenting their opinions to the government. In response to the gun debate, Obama held a speech due to the most recent gun shooting in Oregon on stricter gun control laws; discussing how laws should and will be changed due to all these…

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    What effects do gun control laws have on the gun crime rate? In my opinion, gun control laws are no effect on crime rate. First reason in why crime rate isn’t effect by the gun control law is because majority of the criminals do not worry about any laws including gun control. Next, the black market for guns will always be able to sell guns so therefore guns will always be a limitless supply for criminals. My last reason is that criminals would not buy guns if they required background checks for…

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    Gun Regulation Amount

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    says “Guns don’t kill people; people kill people” meaning that it’s not actually guns that do the killing but the people behind them. Author David Johnson disagrees with it because he believes that there isn’t a conclusion in that statement as he states in his article…

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