Guns don’t kill people – people kill people. I know some of you are shaking your heads and thinking how ridiculous that statement is. But‚ to say that guns kill people is to say that the car killed the family of four‚ instead of the drunk driver killed the family of four. Watch almost any nightly news and you will see a story about someone in the community who gets butchered by a drunk driver. The Center for Disease Control reported that in 2013 there were 10‚076 Americans killed in alcohol-impaired
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Gun control has been a serious issue over the past several decades‚ and remains a controversial topic in today’s world. As defined in Wikipedia‚ gun control “is any law‚ policy‚ practice‚ or proposal designed to restrict or limit the possession‚ production‚ importation‚ shipment‚ sale‚ and/or use of guns or other firearms by private citizens” (“Gun control‚” 2012). To clarify its definition‚ gun control is a process to limit the ready availability of firearms to the citizens of their country. Every
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Guns Don’t Kill People‚ People Kill People And Other Nonsensical Rhetoric The intent and historical relevance of the Second Amendment should be carefully considered against modern day situations and circumstances surrounding gun violence. Whether you believe the Second Amendment gives unequivocal rights to individuals to bear arms or that it only pertains to states militia and firearms should be tightly regulated by the government‚ reasonable measures should be taken to minimize the harm caused
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On average over 100‚000 people are killed by guns in murders‚ assaults‚ police intervention and accidents ("Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence."). Many people say that it isn’t the guns that kill people‚ it’s people‚ but this is incorrect because if people didn’t posses guns they wouldn’t be able to murder people in a simple quick way. The debate on the second amendment and gun control laws has been going on for the past couple decades in the United States. Recently deadly mass shooting have
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the title of great king you have to destroy hundreds of villages and kill thousand of people. All these are old saying‚ but what about our new achievements word wars and cold wars. According to an internet site‚ “In terms of total numbers‚ the Soviet Union bore an incredible brunt of casualties during WWII. An estimated 16‚825‚000 people died in the war‚ over 15% of its population. China also lost an astounding 20‚000‚000 people during the conflict” (Business insider). This is a huge population loss
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When it comes to individuals supporting gun control‚ they often don’t see a middle ground between the two. Individuals that support gun control only see guns as the murder not the person holding the gun or pulling the trigger. Often media posts graphs of gun related deaths and injuries on graphs that are not accurate. Individuals don’t do the research to determine what is true or is a fallacy claim of disordered statistics is. More than 60% of all gun related deaths per year are from suicides around
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Guns and Drugs don’t kill-People do The cartoon I chose was the drawing by Doug Marlette‚ published by Newsday in 1999. It is located on page twenty in our textbook‚ "Reading Literature & Writing Argument." In the cartoon‚ you see the back views of two vehicles‚ one being a truck and the other a convertible. The truck on the left is driven by a man with a bumper sticker that reads‚ "Guns don’t kill-people do!" with the license plate that reads‚ "N.R.A."The man is looking at the man on the right
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Do guns kill people or do people kill people? Child soldiers is a very heart-wrenching topic. Yes‚ children are taken from their families and commanders forcefully require these children to kill people. These children are brainwashed and drugged into thinking that this act is the correct thing to do‚ when clearly it is not. Like any other murderer they should be prosecuted. If a child in the United States was forced and drugged into being a murder regardless the age‚ wouldn’t they be prosecuted
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is to inform the readers of the correlation between guns and drugs. In this draft I hope to inform the general public‚ the students and Professor of ENGL 111‚ how drugs may be implicated in many of the mass shootings. As we are all aware guns do not shoot people‚ it takes a person to decide to use it. It is believed by many experts that medication alters the mind and the mind controls the trigger finger. Guns do not kill people‚ people kill people. The focus of this draft is to convey information
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In the Bloomberg Businessweek article ’Guns Don’t Kill People‚ Gun Culture Does’‚ author Charles Kenny‚ a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development‚ posted his opinion on the gun control debate. Kenny states "Even today‚ the strongest relationship to homicide rates around the world involves overall levels of economic development‚ inequality‚ and social cohesion rather than gun prevalence." However‚ the author continues with a contradiction of that statement‚ writing "Yet‚ if you restrict
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