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Defending Banning of Assault Weapons Gun rights and gun control activism have been dominating the United States politics for centuries. One of the main areas of the activism lies on whether to ban the use of assault weapons. Gun control activists have been lobbying policy makers to formulate policies aimed at preventing the use of assault weapons. Assault weapons should be banned in the United States due to the negative impacts that emanate from their use. The existence of loopholes in gun laws…

fired. The gunmen Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, killed thirteen people that day (Springhall 1999). The shooters had trench coats, and ski masks, further, they walked into that school “armed with a semi-automatic carbine rifle, two-sawed off shotguns, a semi-automatic assault pistol, and dozens homemade bombs” (Springhall 1999:622). Students fled the school, and the gunmen entered the library and told the jocks to stand up; moreover, they went through at least ten clips of ammunition…

Breaking News, shots fired at a local high school, multiple casualties reported including the gunman. Immediately, thoughts of Columbine, Virginia Tech, and Sandy Hook appear along with the question, how do we stop these tragedies from happening. The answer for 62% of women is simple, stronger laws regarding the sale of guns (DePrang, 2016). Women are the loudest voice for stronger gun control in the United States, but their voices have not been able to change the minds of U.S. government…

weapons. The Department of Justice states: “Possession of automatic weapons or short-barreled shotguns or rifles prohibited without DOJ "Dangerous Weapons Permit"; permission rarely granted outside of film industry. Suppressors (aka silencers) prohibited. Destructive devices are prohibited unless are designated as curios & relics, in which case a collectors permit can be obtained. The only AOWs that are permitted are smoothbore pistols and firearms with a combination of a smoothbore…

urged their lawmakers to further restrict citizens’ access to weapons. In particular, gun control advocates wanted legislators to require universal background checks, ban the sale of assault-style weapons, and limit the size of magazines for semi-automatic weapons. Writing less than a week after the event, Joshua Horwitz, the Executive Director of the Coalition to Stop…

With this in mind, when looking at crime rates, murders, and suicides over half of these are done with handguns. For example, in the shooting at Virginia Tech in April (2007), the weapon used was a 9mm Semi-automatic pistol. At this terrible tragedy, there were thirty-two college kids and a member of the staff killed. (Lee, 2015) People looking at this event tend to choose to look at this in one of two ways. Either they believe this event would have been prevented…

topics involving the constitution. In the past century, countries from all around the world have been banning or heavily restricting access to firearms. England has restricted access to semi-automatic rifles that are abundant in the United States and Australia it is almost impossible to get one’s hands on a pistol. So if countries like Australia and England have laws making it hard to get guns, than why hasn’t the United States? The answer is because of the 2nd Amendment in the United States…

Ballaro, Beverly, and Laura Finley. "Counterpoint: Gun Control Saves Lives." Points Of View: Gun Control (2015): 3. Points of View Reference Center. Web. 7 Oct. 2015. Ballaro, Beverly and Finley, Laura points out the main theme of this article as “Gun control regulation is the best tool we have in the fight to reduce gun violence in the United States.” Both agree that the United States has one of the highest rates of gun-related violence in the developed world. Gun control has remained the…

people. In the article, “A look at the Zodiac Killer’s deadly timeline” by Staff Report it list all the people who were killed by zodiac. It states, “December 20 1968, David Farraday and Betty Lou Jensen are killed in a gravel with a semi-automatic pistol, July 4th 1968, Darlene Ferrin and Mike…

and pound” is a martial arts movement that happens when the aggressor slams the victim’s head into the ground until he loses consciousness.) Many neighbors here screaming that was described as Zimmerman screaming for help before pulling his semi-automatic pistol out and fatally shooting Trayvon Martin. After being taken into custody, Zimmerman is examined by a doctor who testifies that Zimmerman had a broken nose, busted up face and lacerated rear of the head from where Martin had attacked…