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    Guns have been in the public’s hand for thousands of years and for just as long unnecessary gun violence has been around. Gun violence has been plaguing the United States for some time now and nothing has been done about it. More gun laws should be enacted so suicides‚ crimes‚ and accidental deaths that involve firearms are a lot less likely to happen then they are now. The more obsolete gun violence the better and this is a step toward that. Most everybody who defends the right to keep guns available

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    The harquebus was the first firearm used between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries. The harquebus is also known as the arquebus or the hackbut. Those who shot this weapon were known as harquebusiers. The harquebus was the first light weight firearm‚ weighing 5 kilos and a barrel a meter long‚ extremely small for the time. Remember‚ this is in comparison to anything that used gunpowder‚ for example‚ a cannon. The other amazing aspect of the harquebus is that it could be operated by only one

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    Say Hi or Die Before Reading 1. After living 23 years in my country‚ Feeling some of the worst fears a human being can take. In a nation that is ranked as one of the worst places to live‚ I have had a happy childhood; perhaps I did not pay attention to what was around me. All the problems began when I grew up‚ so my family and I (my beautiful wife and six month old son) decided to go to USA. We arrived to Florida‚ since that‚ I can tell our lives have changed masses. The tranquility

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    The Power of a Man and His Gun An Inside look at Robert Wright’s Dave Saunders and America’s Love of Guns New England College of Business and Finance “The Man Who was Almost a Man” written by Robert Wright‚ is a fictional story in which we focus on the main character Dave Saunders. Dave is a seventeen year old African American living in a time of racial oppression. When we meet Dave‚ we learn of his struggles with some fellow field workers and desires more respect as a man. Believing that

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    1. Speed: “The action of moving only as fast as you can accurately shoot and think.” Speed must be truly measured in order to understand our reaction to a given stimulus. That stimulus can be a timer on a range‚ or the presentation of a gun on the street. We as guardians must understand that through training we can actually make reaction faster than reaction. But first we must establish a base line for each individual officer. Once the base line is established we should constantly push the limit

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    Americans legally had access to firearms since 1791. Why should peoples’ right to own a gun change now? The Second Amendment allows United States citizens to access and use firearms. Arguably the Second Amendment is not for today’s society and people desire the creation of restricting gun laws. Currently‚ the government entrusts the creation of gun laws up to the state‚ which is problematic when law-abiding citizens travel from state to state with a firearm. All people in the right state of

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    Over 129 people died after The Islamic state of Iraq attack on Paris. AK-47s were used‚ but France is one of the toughest gun control countries in the world. We should not implement stricter gun laws because The 2nd Amendment in the U.S. Constitution guarantees the right to bear arms and criminals don’t abide by the laws. The 2nd Amendment in the United States Constitution written in 1971 states‚ "A well-regulated militia‚ being necessary to to the security of a free State‚ the right of the people

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    To reduce crime‚ guns should be harder to get because there would be less crime‚ less murder‚ and there would be a much lower rate of death. The second amendment states “ A well regulated militia‚ being necessary to the security of a free state‚ the right the people to be able keep bare arms‚ shall not be infringed.” The second amendment should be amended to have restrictions because background checks keep guns out of the hands of the criminals and persons deemed unsafe. This has become a hot topic

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    So lack of guns‚ actually contribute to these massacres as mad people seek out gun free zone to slaughter as many people as possible. Either that or mad people massacres everywhere and they never turn into massacre because some law abiding citizen holding a gun end the madness. “But still” antigun lobbyists might say‚ “America has a very high gun-related crime rate and we have a lot of guns. Is there any correlation?” the answer is NO. Australia has a higher gun crime rate and they banned guns decades

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    Crime in America has been on the decline since 1992 when crime was at an all time high. There was gun a gun control law and an increase in incarceration‚ giving people way longer sentences for small offenses. The gun control law made it harder for people to get their hands on weapons and the increase of incarceration made people scared to commit crimes cause the fear of getting harsh sentences. Also there was a boom in the economy that help also. With P. Bill Clinton passing the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation

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