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Part Of American Gun Control
548 wordsGun control is the limitation of the use and ownership of guns. Guns are a big part of American history. The first guns in America were used by the colonists for hunting. Later, the colonists used their guns to gain their independence from England. The Revolutionary war, along with all the other wars that followed, revolutionized the gun to meet the needs that warfare demanded. From the Wild West to Desert Storm, guns have become a part of American culture. Over the last hundred years, a new iss...
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Assault Weapon Ban National Rifle Association
3,095 words... Guns and violence are not just found in schools. In the state of Louisiana and Texas, more people now die from gunshot wounds than from car accidents. Since 1980 the citys homicide rate has doubled. These violent outrages are spurred on by deadly convergence of gangs, drugs, and even more assault weaponry. Juvenile arrests in our nation for homicides climbed from six to over one hundred in one year alone (Hull, 1993). Police have complained about being outgunned by drug dealers with Uzis and...
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National Rifle Association Gun Control
410 wordsThe National Rifle Association and the Institute for Legislative Action The National Rifle Association created the Institute for Legislative Action in 1975 as a means to lobby. Their mission statement entails preserving and protecting the Second Amendment, which guarantees the ability of law-abiding citizens to own and use firearms for legal and acceptable purposes. The Institute is not directly associated with any specific ammunition or gun makers. It receives financial support from member dues...
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Governor Of Texas Bush Believes
430 wordsBush or Gore? Will it be the vice president or the governor of Texas to fill the presidency? Even after election day, this is still a very questionable topic. Because of the peoples's post views, it seems the country has divided itself: half for Gore, half for Bush. Their views differ on issues such as taxes, social security, and gun control. First, George W. Bush believes that federal income taxes are too high and that a tax cut for all Americans is the best way to achieve fiscal responsibility...
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Assault Weapons Gun Owners
1,505 wordsPro Gun Control It is a Friday afternoon in Charlesbay High School. Students are piling into the lunch lines awaiting hot pizza, fresh French fries and ice-cold sodas. As the students discuss what they are going to do after the football game and how their 1 st hour test was, a gunshot is heard not far away. The students are ordered to stay low to the ground by school security guards. None of the students know what is happening outside the lunch lines. What is going on is a 17 -year old frenetic ...
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1,060 wordsPerhaps I'm getting cynical in my old age but it seems to me that the primary difference between most political ideologies, primarily conservatism and liberalism, is rate of speed. Indeed, the only difference may be that one moves faster than the other towards the demise of our existence as a free people. The platforms put forth by either side reflect less and less a concrete difference in principle and more and more a differing in opinion regarding just how quickly the chains of slavery should ...
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U S V Bear Arms
1,304 wordsToday in America, gun control is a very serious issue. There are different opinions on this issue, the National Rifle Association (NRA), feels that guns are safe when used for protection by responsible citizens, others feel that guns are far to dangerous to be kept in homes, and that guns should not be owned by anyone, only used by the National Guard and law enforcement. These people think their opinions are correct according to the second amendment, the amendment that deals with the bearing of ...
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Violence In A Changing America
1,381 wordsColumbine, Co. Through the news we have witnessed the horror, gore and serious crime that has extended its influence even to the youth of small towns across America. America has experienced a cultural change where solid values no longer serve as a deterrent to crime. This spread may have resulted from the desensitizing media under the, If it bleeds, it reads. marketing ploy, or perhaps the rise of the Internet. However, occurrences such as those at Columbine illustrate the violence that plagues ...
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Gun Control The Real Issues
1,641 wordsMisuse or theft prohibited by law. This was the warning printed on a milk-carrying container at the local grocery store where I work. The use of the word prohibited intrigued me, so when I got home I looked it up in Readers Digests Great Encyclopedic Dictionary. I found two definitions: 1. To forbid, especially by authority or law; interdict. and 2. To prevent or hinder... (1077) Now, which definition was being used in the warning? Was is possible to forbid misuse or theft by passing a law? Cert...
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Vice President Gore Gore And Bush
1,428 words... mission and worked with him during Cheney's years at the Pentagon. Cheney was not President Bush's first choice to be defense secretary. His initial pick, Sen. John Tower, withdrew after it became clear he could not win Senate confirmation. Cheney quickly established himself in the Pentagon. When the Air Force chief of staff, Gen. Michael J. Dugan, talked to reporters in unusual detail about U. S. war plans in the Persian Gulf in September 1990, Cheney said he went too far and fired him. But...
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Law Abiding Citizens 2 5 Million
464 wordsWhen people think of guns, all they think about is the school shootings that have occurred over the past decade or two. Those events are just unfortunate, but in reality those kids who killed all those people did not purchase the gun, they stole it. Debates against gun control is stronger then the debate for it. The reasonable solution would be to eliminate guns all together, but we all know that that will never happen. Opposition to federal controls is very strong. People opposing gun control s...
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Gun Ownership Benjamin Franklin
771 wordsGun Control One of our founding fathers, Benjamin Franklin, once stated: Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. This applies to contemporary Americans in very direct way, even though that media try to convince us that this statement had lost its actuality, because of the realities of 21 st century. Therefore, the issue of gun control has much broader applications than the pushers of left-wing agenda would like us to bel...
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Legalization Of Drugs Prohibition Of Alcohol
1,052 wordsGun Control Americans are faced with an ever-increasing problem of violence. The streets of America are now a war zone. Teenage gangsters murder one another for drug territory, and innocent victims are caught in the crossfire. However, most recent and most abhorrent, is our children are killing one another. They are killing with extreme prejudice. Our children are killing, exhibiting little or no remorse for lives they have taken. We cannot ignore the carnage our society endures due to the crimi...
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Gun Control Laws Concealed Weapons
2,367 wordsMurder in America Do you believe that every time a prisoner is executed in the United States, eight future murders are deterred? Do you believe that a one percent increase in the number of citizens licensed to carry concealed weapons causes a 3. 3 percent decrease in the state's murder rate? Do you believe that 10 to 20 percent of the decline in crime in the 1990 s was caused by an increase in abortions in the 1970 s? Or that the murder rate would have increased by 250 percent since 1974 if the ...
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United States V History Of The United States
840 wordsNo citizen should feel unsafe in his own home. Having the right to a firearm to protect oneself should not be taken away from any citizen. You are in your home and a intruder breaks in. You hear the noises from downstairs. You want to go downstairs to defend yourself and your property, but you can? t. You have no weapon of your own to protect yourself from a criminal who is most likely armed. The Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States says, A well-regulated militia being neces...
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Majority Of The People Gun Owner
835 wordsTina Gun Control Jamie Scott Tina Sexy English Comp I December 10, 1999 Law Making and Enforcement There are new laws and regulations being made all the time in the United States these days. Politicians think that by making these new laws it will fix their current problems. This is the case right now with the problems they are having with gun control. These new laws do help and prevent a lot of crimes and accidents from happening. This is mainly because of the fear punishment will bring by getti...
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Role Model Gun Control
552 wordsThe following is an excerpt from an ABC news broadcast on September 16, 1999: And so it has happened once again. After the massacre at Columbine High School and a day trading firm in Atlanta and the Jewish daycare center in Los Angeles, now someone has walked into a church in Fort Worth, Texas and started shooting. The target, 150 teenagers attending a prayer service. Once again we are learning about the killer. Larry Ashbrook, a man with no criminal record but a history of mental problems. A ma...
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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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Bear Arms Brady Bill
751 wordsIssue: Should A National Gun Control Policy Be Established? Americans participated in a great debate through the 60 s, 70 s, 80 s, and now the 90 s. It is the argument of whether handguns, shotguns, and rifles should be restricted or banned. This debate over ownership of a firearm has produced strong emotions through the past years and does not seem to be abating. Does the U. S. Constitution give people the right, or should guns be restricted or banned because they are used in the commission of ...
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Arms Shall Not Be Infringed People To Keep And Bear
600 wordsA 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. These are the words of the second amendment as written by our forefathers. Many laws have since been passed on the right to bear arms. Currently laws are being drawn up to give the right to citizens to sue gun manufacturers. If this is passed who will be next, car manufacturers, toy companies? The cause of a crime needs to be addressed, not the instrum...
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