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Lost Their Lives Make The World
720 words"Stick 'em up. " These are three of the most feared words known to us today. Innocent people, males and females, the elderly, our nation's youth, all of these people must currently live in fear. Walking down the street, taking a Sunday drive, going to the supermarket, the bank, or a gas station have all become dangerous tasks. One item has made all of these normal, routine things dangerous. That item is, a gun. Many people have lost their lives because of guns. Others have been crippled because ...
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Strict Gun Control Laws Brady Bill
447 wordsA. A handgun is a very poor defensive weapon. A 1983 study determines that a gun is too dangerous a weapon to be kept around the house for self-protection. A gun kept for protection is six times more likely to kill someone you know rather than an attacker. B. Maybe gun control won't keep guns out of the hands of criminals, but it will prevent crimes of passion. The handgun has become the weapon most often used in crime and the weapon most responsible for murders in the United States. Seventy per...
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Gun Control Activists National Rifle Association
589 wordsHandguns exact an inordinate toll on American lives, isn't it time that we ban handguns? "In 1989, guns killed 11, 832 Americans. " (Dolan, Edward, page 203) " There are an estimated sixty-five million firearms in the United States, which means, there are sixty-five million people carrying a firearm. " (page 203) "In 1997, the most recent year available, there were eighty-nine firearm deaths per day, about a death every sixteen minutes!" (page 203) In every sixteen minutes one of your family mem...
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1,127 words... age... " [I]t is not simply who has the abortion that leads to the lower crime rate... but the ability of the woman to choose better timing for child rearing that lowers criminality. " (Los Angeles Daily News, August 8, 1999, pp. 1, 18) What about the Brady Bill and other gun control measures? Didn't the Brady Bill play a big part in reducing gun crime? See Gun Cite's analysis of that claim. Four scholars discuss "Does Gun Control Work?" in PBS's moderated panel discussion, Think Tank (aired...
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The Second Amendment Vs A Police State
1,351 wordsThe Second Amendment vs. A Police State The United States of America has taken drastic steps in taking away the American peoples God given rights and Constitutional rights. The United States government is supposed to be a government of the people, by the people, for the people. There are very clear signs of a cancerous growth within our government and the citizens of America need to take preventative measures to ensure the freedom for which our founding fathers fought and died. I am speaking of ...
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929 wordsDonald Kaul, a Tribune Media Syndicates newspaper veteran of twenty five years, can be said to be famous for his often sarcastic but astute observations on everything from campaign reform to "Who Wants to be a Millionaire. " Occasionally a letter to the editor appears in the newspaper protesting his remarks, usually from a self-proclaimed, right-wing conservative calling him a "bleeding heart liberal. " What exactly do these terms mean, however? Are they absolute in what they represent? In gener...
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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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Bear Arms Safety Locks
890 wordsGORE vs. BUSH EDUCATION George Bush has seven principles of reform, only four of which I will elaborate on, for a better quality education in our nations schools: (1) Achieve Equality; Just as Bush is closing the achievement gap in Texas, he plans to do so across the states (2) Promote Excellence; Bush believes in clearly defined standards of basic skills plus crucial knowledge. The states should devise tests to ensure that the standards are met (3) Ensure that Every Child Can Read; Statistics s...
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Stricter Gun Control Laws Related Deaths
556 wordsGun Control: Is It A Problem? Ten-thousand, five-hundred, twenty-seven people die a year in a handgun related incidents in the United States. This number, by far, out weighs those gun related deaths in countries such as Sweden, Great Britain, and Japan, which number 13, 22, and 87 respectively. What is the reason for such drastic differences in numbers? The latter mentioned countries have stricter gun control laws and they require bare arm safety courses. These laws have a direct relationship to...
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National Rifle Association Children And Adolescents
1,172 wordsThe quest for political power. Rarely does a day pass where some form of power struggle does not occur within our government. The importance of the role of American government in the lives of its constituents has continuously grown in conjunction with a corresponding increase in governmental economic and social obligations. As the American state assumes greater power and responsibility in its actions, so must the citizens of the United States. With this increase in modern government participatio...
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United States Citizens Aggravated Assault
1,763 wordsIt Hand Guns I. Introduction It is estimated that in 1994, 39, 720 individuals died from firearm related injuries in the United States. This figure is very alarming, especially when one considers this number not as a statistic, but 39, 720 human beings. The issue that will be addressed is one that brings with it great controversy. Does our right to own guns infringe upon the rights of others to live? Would it be a greater injustice to ban the right to own guns thus saving lives? Would this actio...
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Purchase Guns Gun Control
288 wordsGun Control in the U. S. Gun control, as we know it, consists of the government restricting the ability of individual citizens to purchase weapons. The different types of gun control vary from waiting periods between checks, so that high-risk people can? t purchase guns through legal channels, and completely banning certain types of guns. There are countless ways for criminals to avoid these government regulations, causing them to only render the ability of innocent citizens, protecting their ho...
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End Of The Century Assault Rifles
568 wordsGUN CONTROL Source Summary: Josh Sugermann is the executive director of the Violence Policy Center and the author of NRA: Money, Firepower, and Fear. Mr. Sugermann talks about how the Brady Bill, witch mandates a national waiting period for buying handguns, will not help in gun control in fact it will have a reverse affect on society and give more money and business to the gun manufactures. Mr. Sugermann began in talking about that gun violence is in fact a public health crisis, witch in turn wi...
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Law Abiding Citizens Legal Ownership Of Firearms
491 wordsAmericans are faced with an ever-growing problem of violence. Illegal weapons have been involved in many horrible crimes such as the recent Columbine High School tragedy and many gang drive-by shootings. One cannot ignore the damage that these criminals are doing to our society, and we must take actions to stop these horrors. However, the effort by some misguided individuals to eliminate the legal ownership of firearms does not address the real problem at hand, and simply disarms the innocent la...
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Gun Control Brady Bill
452 wordsGun Control With the possible exception of abortion, no other current issue has split the country in two like the debate surrounding gun control. Both sides are equally adamant. The pro gun side, as represented by the National Rifle Association, continues to oppose all gun control measures primarily on the grounds that any law restricting gun ownership is unconstitutional. Proponents of gun control argue that gun violence is an epidemic out of control across the country, and call on federal lawm...
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Assault Weapons Gun Shows
686 wordsIt is being argued that gun control violates our constitutional rights stated in the second amendment. The second amendment states that? A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed (Harris, 1998). ? Pro-gunners believe that the second amendment gives them the right to have any and all typed of firearms. But, the second amendment was written during a time when the nation was at war. Ordinary citiz...
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Bear Arms Police Officers
826 wordsOur fore fathers did not begin this country through negotiations and arbitration. They began this country through a revolt. When the revolt was over, these men had risen to victory through the use of warfare and guns. When deciding which rights all men were to possess in this new country, one major right was too keep and bear arms in order to protect their families, gather food, and preserve their rights, from all threats. However, in these modern times of increased violence people are questioni...
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Gun Laws Drug Offenders
966 wordsHARRY BROWNE THE MAN FOR EVERY TOWN Harry Browne was born in New York in 1933 and grew up in Los Angeles. Although he only attended college for two weeks, he went on to become a very successful investment advisor and author. Harry Browne believes that the government has blatantly disregarded the ninth and tenth amendments, which limit their size and power. He plans to drastically cut the size of government and let people make their own choices instead of politicians making them for us. Harry Bro...
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Separation Of Church And State Gun Ownership
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