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Gun Control In America
1,392 wordsOn March 24, 1998, firing from the woods overlooking their school, 13 -year-old Andrew Golden and 11 -year-old Mitchell Johnson shot and killed four middle school students and a teacher and injured ten other students in Jonesboro, Arkansas. The two boys had a semiautomatic M- 1 carbine with a large ammunition magazine, two other rifles, seven handguns and more than 500 rounds of ammunition which they took from the home of one of the boys grandfather, who had a large arsenal of weapons left unsec...
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Gun Control Legislation Five Day Waiting Period
1,077 wordsIn the 1960 s after the assassinations of President John F. Kenedy, Dr. Martin Luther King, and Senator Robert F. Kenedy, gun control became a major subject of public passion and controversy. To some people gun control is a crime issue, to others it is a rights issue. Gun control is a safety issue, an education issue, a racial issue, and a political issue, among others. Within each of these issues there are those who want more gun control legislation and those who want less. On both sides of thi...
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Crime Bill Game Animals
1,066 words... ded in the Crime Bill of 1994. While supporters of the ban claim the firearms banned by this bill are the Weapons of choice of gangs and drug dealers, the FBI Uniform Crime Reports show this contention is unfounded (Rusiecki 7). However, at congressional hearings held on March 31 of this year, several people testified that they had used guns, which are now banned to defend their lives and to prevent crimes (Survival). It is fortunate that these citizens had firearms to defend themselves. Soc...
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Law Enforcement Officer Washington D C
952 wordsSince disarming the citizens of this country is the objective of the federal government, and since the federal government proclaims this to be a democratic country based upon equality, then any gun control measures adopted by the government should be democratically applied. If law abiding citizens are to have their guns taken from them then let the law abiding police agencies of the state be disarmed also. (Those in law enforcement who are crooked can keep their guns just as the drug pushers and...
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Concealed Carry Permits Gun Control Advocates
1,075 words... as the efforts at gun control do not address the real problem of crime. The simple definition of a criminal is someone who does not obey the law. The simple definition of a law-abiding citizen, someone who does obey the law. Therefore, if the goverment would pass laws restricting ownership of firearms, which category of people does it affect? The simple answer, gun control laws affect law-abiding citizens only. By their very nature, the criminals will continue to violate these new laws, they...
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Gun Control Laws Current Issues And Enduring Questions
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Gun Control Laws Gun Rights Groups
808 wordsGun control has become one of the major political and social issues over the last three years in America. The most recent debate overlooking the gun control laws has peaked after the April 20, 1999 shooting at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, when 14 youngsters became victims of the rampage. The issue of firearm regulations has been a vital question for several decades. There have been already precedents in our history when the topic of gun control was of a great importance, especia...
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Gun Control Laws Current Issues And Enduring Questions
1,282 wordsCommon Sense Control, Not Gun Control Its late at night, and youre home all alone. You double checked to make sure all of the doors were locked and made sure all of the windows were closed. Its been a quiet night, but for some odd reason you cannot sleep. During your restless night, you hear a bump in the kitchen. At first you dismiss it as the wind. But there it is again, and its louder this time. Youre scared, your pulse is racing and you cannot think of what to do. You dont know whether to ca...
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Gun Control Activists Gun Control Advocates
1,348 wordsGun control is undoubtedly an issue that most Americans have been exposed to. In 1989, guns killed 11, 832 Americans. The National Rifle Association (NRA) members believe that it is their constitutional right to own guns, stating that guns are not the root of the crime problem in the United States. Gun control activists like the members of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence (CSGV) argue that guns are responsible for the majority of violent crimes that take place. They wish to instill many types ...
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Concealed Carry Permits Law Abiding Citizens
1,650 wordsAmericans are faced with an ever-growing problem of violence. Our streets have become a battleground where the elderly are beaten for their social security checks, where terrified women are attacked and raped, where teen-age gangsters shoot it out for a patch of turf to sell their illegal drugs, and where innocent children are caught daily in the crossfire of drive-by shootings. We cannot ignore the damage that these criminals are doing to our society, and we must take actions to stop these horr...
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1,704 words[Click Here for the BEST Term Papers] Failure of Gun Control Laws Americans are faced with an ever-growing problem of violence. Our streets have become a battleground where the elderly are beaten for their social security checks, where terrified women are viciously attacked and raped, where teen-age gangsters shoot it out for a patch of turf to sell their illegal drugs, and where innocent children are caught daily in the crossfire of drive-by shootings. We cannot ignore the damage that these cri...
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United States Citizens Violent Crimes
1,162 wordsGun Control Ever since America has been a country, Americans have owned and used guns. Recent events, such as Columbine and other mass shootings, have caused Americans to look at guns in a whole new perspective. Many argue guns protect us as United States citizens, while others will argue that guns are killing United States citizens. Who is right? Is there a right or a wrong? What should be done if anything? There are many different factors that contribute to finding the answers to these questio...
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Assault Weapon Ban Gun Control Legislation
3,033 wordsGun Control Final Draft Gun control is not one issue, but many. To some people gun control is a crime issue; to others it is a rights issue. Gun control is a safety issue, an education issue, a racial issue, and a political issue, among others. Within each of these issues there are those who want more gun control legislation and those who want less. On both sides of this issue opinions range from moderate to extreme. Guns are not for everyone. Certain individuals cannot handle a firearm safely, ...
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People To Keep And Bear Regulated Militia
993 wordsGun Control: We do not need any more Ron a friend of the family recently went to Gander Mountain to purchase a shotgun. He went up to the firearms counter and told the salesman what he wanted and the salesman got the paperwork ready. After Ron finished filling out the paper work, the salesman took it over to the computer and started to enter the information. A couple of minutes later the salesman came back and told Ron he could not purchase the gun because the computer said that he had a crimina...
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Law Abiding Citizens Anti Gun Control
2,503 wordsJune 8, 2001 Gun control is a very controversial issue among society at this present time. Gun control is an issue that has been debated by Americans since the 1960 s (Dolan 1). The debate questions the right of Americans to bear arms, this including, handguns, shotguns, and rifles. There is a spectrum of gun control, ranging from licensing laws to the total banning of all guns. Why has gun control become such a controversial issue? For one, these arms, proven by statistics, provide the result o...
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Today World Constitution Was Written
608 wordsOne in four households in the United States have a loaded handgun. This stunning fact is unbelievable yet true. Anyone in the household could gain access to this deadly firearm. Gun control is needed in today? s society. Gun control would prove that guns aren? t a necessity of today? s life. It would also lower the crime rate. Gun control is a large factor of safety. Gun control is essential since it will prove guns aren? t needed in today? s world. Our society and our way of life have changed s...
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566 wordsOne of the biggest issues in the United States that I would change is gun control. The government is slowly chipping away at our constitutional right to keep and bear arms. This action puzzles me because I do not see why this is happening. Gun control is based on the faulty notion that ordinary citizens are too hazardous and to ill tempered to be trusted with weapons. Only through the slight alterations of specific constitutional rights is gun control even possible. Every year the U. S. takes aw...
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Gun Control Advocates Gun Control Laws
1,447 wordsThere has been considerable debate recently in Canada over the issue of gun control. The Canadian parliament enacted the Firearms Act to enforce gun control by requiring gun owners to register their firearms. Just recently, the government of Alberta lead in a charge, including five other provinces and numerous pro-gun groups, complaining that the law is unconstitutional and intrudes on provincial jurisdiction. They also claim that the act infringes on property and civil rights that are guarantee...
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Assault Weapon Ban Background Checks
970 wordsThe problem with guns is fairly obvious: they decrease the difficulty of killing or injuring a person. In Jeffrey A. Roth's Firearms and Violence (NIJ Research in Brief, February 1994), he points out the obvious dangers. About 60 percent of all murder victims in the United States in 1989 (about 12, 000 people) were killed with firearms. Firearm attacks injured another 70, 000 victims, some of whom were left permanently disabled. In 1985, the cost of shootings was an estimated $ 14 billion nation...
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United States Patent Revolving Firearm Colt
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