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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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Gun Control Advocates Wall Street Journal
5,825 words... h emotion or introspection but require a level of conscious cognition to understand. 3 / 28 / 98 Dave Workman Bravo for John Lott's revealing research on the impact that concealed carry laws are having on crime. That such laws have been passed in 31 states, coinciding with passage of "Three Strikes" and "Hard Time for Armed Crime" legislation, is the real reason we are seeing a decline in reported violent crime. Those who have advocated restrictive gun control over the years, and other intru...
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Gun Ownership Bear Arms
1,871 words... ted States in 1991, and approximately 70, 666, 000 were handguns. (web) Since 1989 gun manufactures / importers introduced an average of 3. 5 million new guns into the United States market alone. (CSGV at web & ATF June 29, 1994; U. S. Firearms Production, American Firearms industry, March 1994 p. 41; ATF, February 23, 1993; and U. S. Firearms Production 1993, American Firearms Industry, January 1995, p. 74) According to those records there is approximately one gun for each adult and half th...
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Liberal Conservative Traits In Editorial Columnist Donald Kaul
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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Gun Control Laws Stricter Gun Control
1,711 wordsIf you recently picked up a newspaper or turned on to see the news you may have question what is happening in our schools and begin to think whether our schools are still safe places for children. Recent school shootings have set feared in many parents about their childrens safety in our schools. Since last year number of school shootings by students have occurred regularly. On Tuesday February 29, 2000 in Mount Morris Township, Michigan a six-year old boy shot his classmate to death in their fi...
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Commit Suicide Gun Violence
1,381 wordsShould The Firearm Makers Be More Responsible To The Society? Ethics are principles governing the behavior of an individual or a group. These principles establish appropriate behavior indicating what is right and what is wrong. Defining the term is easy, but determining what the principles are is difficult. What is ethical can vary form one to another, from industry to industry, and from country to country. In the play V All My Sons, it is an unethical decision that Joe Keller sold the broken ai...
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Stricter Gun Control Laws Reduce The Number
1,134 wordsAmerica has a long tradition of gun ownership and for many Americans it is a fundamental part of life. The right to keep and bear arms is guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the Constitution. However, in recent years, there were many controversial discussions about the Second Amendment because there were a high number of gun-related deaths, wounding, accidents, and suicides in the US. School shootings and massacres shocked the whole country. Now more and more people ask themselves how such inc...
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Heavy Metal Music Suicide Attempts
2,061 wordsThe Causes can be Prevented Introduction The phenomenon of suicide cannot be easily addressed, because psychologists do not agree on its exact causes. One thing is clear though this issue is very complex and the effective suicide prevention program must be based on specifics of every individual case. Nevertheless, there are certain factors that are believed to be universally applicable, when it comes to explaining what causes suicide. In this paper we will discuss social attractors of suicide, s...
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Gun Control Advocates United States Constitution
1,606 wordsFirearms policy In our contemporary world the issue of having the right to own and use weapons ins very controversial. There are many people who believe that the use of guns is the only way to freedom and to personal safety, others argue the point that if the use of guns was limited there would be more peace in the world. All of these opinions led to the formulating of such a branch in politics as the Firearms policy, or else known as the Gun politics. The phrase Gun politics refers to the views...
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Critical Point Of View Gun Ownership
951 wordsPro Gun Control Being constantly changing and evolving, contemporary society becomes vulnerable to issues of technological, cultural and societal progress. From the critical point of view, although guns have been a part of our rural culture for hundreds of years, their increasingly horrific misuse by individuals, including children, children seems to be a more recent phenomenon. Recognition that gun misuse is only a symptom is crucial to our society finding solutions to the increasing violence w...
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Concealed Weapon Laws In Texas
1,550 wordsConcealed Weapon Laws In Texas This year, in February and March, America again witnessed tragic cases of high-profile, gun-related killings in Atlanta, Chicago, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Texas. Twenty four men, women and children as well as three of the gunmen were killed. However, in contrast to past tragic accidents, those recent ones were not accompanied with widespread clamor for stricter gun control. As practice reveals, the killings usually stimulate calls for more Americans to arm and thus...
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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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Gun Ownership Gun Owners Guns
208 wordsBecause our constitution guarantees our citizens the right to bear arms, we cannot make gun ownership illegal. We can reduce the problem by doing the following two things. Require all gun owners to be licensed. Require all guns to be registered to licensed owners. All guns would be required to have a serial number. Guns without serial numbers would be given one. Any unregistered gun would be confiscated. The gun could be returned after the owner gets his / her license. Gun sales to unlicensed in...
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Gun Ownership Gun Control
570 wordsDear Mr. President: The issue of gun control in the United States has formed a public debate for quite a while now. Many are struggling to find a solution to the problem. The U. S. needs your help to stop guns from being misused. Guns are getting into the hands of people who shouldn t have them and these people are abusing the privilege of having the weapon they have. A perfect example is the tragedy in Columbine. I m not saying we have to ban guns, but we have to watch whose hands these guns ar...
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Gun Violence Bear Arms
3,755 wordsGun Control, a term that refers to the management of firearms in an effort to reduce the criminal use of these weapons. (MICROSOFT (R) ENCARTA 1995) In the early 1990 s there were more than 200 million privately owned guns in the United States, which makes it plain to see why there are arguments for and against even the smallest amount of gun control. The Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, guarantees the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed. In...
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Gun Control Laws Handgun Violence
1,140 wordsGun Control for the Masses Gun control has always been a very controversial subject in American society. Hundreds of millions of websites are dedicated to the subject. Few are realistic, and many are absurdly extreme. Every website on the Internet seems to have a different definition of the second amendment, which deals with the right to bear arms. The more extremist sights believe one should be able to carry a weapon wherever and whenever you want, and the most conservative believe no one shoul...
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Gun Control Laws Gun Control Advocates
1,070 wordsGun Control One of the biggest issues in the United States today seems to be gun control. The government is constantly proposing legislation for more and more gun control. Slowly they are chipping away at our constitutional right to keep and bear arms. You must ask yourself: For what reason does the government want to restrict law abiding citizens from owning guns? Certainly government is not so naive to think criminals will adhere to gun control laws. There just may be an underlying motive for ...
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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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