politicians want gun control to supposedly make the world safer. Even though some politicians may argue that gun control limits violence‚ gun control should be banned because guns in the hands of noble people give protection and drop crime rates. Gun control‚ as defined in the Merriam-Webster‚ is “laws that control how guns are sold and used and who can use them” (Webster). This means that this regulation on guns limits who can own a firearm and it tries to rule over throw a gun is used. Gun control
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GUN CONTROL +Obama’s quote for gun ban : "While there is no law or set of laws that can prevent every senseless act of violence completely‚ no piece of legislation that will prevent every tragedy‚ every act of evil‚ if there’s even one thing we can do to reduce this violence‚ if there’s even one life that can be saved‚ then we’ve got an obligation to try it." +Some of the main legislative proposals backed by Obama and Vice President Joe Biden are: -requiring criminal background checks on all gun
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where i stand on gun control is that i believe we should have the right to get a gun but i feel like we might need to keep the rules and regulations on guns because everyone doesn’t have the mentality that if you have a gun it can kill someone if you pull the trigger and some people have illegal guns that just have them for violences are so they can protect there self from other people who have guns but we do have people that believe guns are here to protect us not so you can just kill someone but
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Statement: Gun control decreases crime. If gun control is regulated‚ then we will have less crime. Access to firearms makes killing easy‚ efficient‚ and impersonal‚ which increases the lethality of crime. Josh Sugarmann‚ the Executive Director of the Violence Policy Center has once said‚ "We recoil in horror and search for explanations‚ but we never face up to the obvious preventive measure: a ban on the handy killing machines that make crimes so easy.”Allowing untrained people to carry guns puts others
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new proposed gun control laws in the aftermath of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton‚ Connecticut that occurred on December 14th‚ 2012. This incident claimed the lives of twenty 1st graders and six adults and has set the government in motion to try to prevent future acts of violence by strengthening gun control laws in the United States (Smith). This has been a topic that has been an extremely emotional debate with people on both sides unwilling to compromise. Gun advocates and
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A Shocking Scenario: Analyzing a Gun Control Advertisement In the spring of 2013‚ GREY Advertisement agency released a series of advertisements for the organization “Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America.” These public service announcements‚ placed on billboards around the country‚ are intended to “reflect the absurdity of our country’s current lax laws and weak regulation of guns‚” (Huffington Post‚ 2013). Contrasting a piece of candy to an assault rifle‚ one image uses emotion and logic
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“Where you have the most armed citizens in America‚ you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control‚ you have the highest crime rate.” -Ted Nugent. One of the biggest political issues today is gun control. There have been so many shootings in the streets‚ in schools‚ in federal buildings‚ colleges‚ and movie theaters. There are many theories on gun control from both conservative and liberal sides; I believe the answer in somewhere in the middle. In 1791 the Constitution
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The issue of gun control has begun to become a big part of debates in the United States. A good bit of people believe there should indeed be stricter gun laws. These opinions are based off the amount of popular shootings in the United States over the past couple of years. In the year of 2016 there was a total of 58‚283 shooting incidents and only 385 of these were mass shootings. During the shootings about 15‚063 people died; 3‚321 of those who were killed were children (doc 1). A recent‚ well-known
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Gun Control There should be a crackdown on guns. Is this world safe from gun violence? We all know this world is really out of control with the use of guns and it seems like as the years passed by‚ there have been so many killings happening that involving a gun. Also‚ just about anybody on the street can get their hands on a gun and you don’t have to buy it from a store. Maybe if there was a big crack down on guns it wouldn’t be so many needless deaths. It seems like as the years goes on there are
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Committee: Security Council Country: Democratic India Delegate: Rishi Birudu‚ Meridian school Topic: situation in Syria The Syrian Arab Republic is currently in a state of civil war with its multi-religious and multi-ethnic society. For a year and a half since the “Arab Spring”‚ the rebel movement has protested the restrictions on their rights and the lack of government transparency‚ while the oppressive Syrian government‚ led by Bashar al-Assad‚ is fraught with corruption and attempts to stifle
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