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Carry A Concealed Gun Control
692 wordsOne of the most hotly debated topics today is gun control. But what exactly is gun control? Is it making it so hard to own that it takes away from the game or leaves someone in fear of not being able to protect themselves? Could it be that it is there to protect the innocent from being gunned down by a lunatic? All these are good questions and that is why the topic is hard to define, both sides have their own feelings on the issue and it is hard to find a happy medium between the two, but one mu...
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Trigger Locks Violent Crimes
1,251 wordsWith the growing number of reports, on television, about violent crimes at school, it is no wonder that President Clinton is pushing for more gun control. Although the number of violent crimes committed in schools is far less than the number committed at home, the president feels that stricter gun laws need to be in effect. In the light of the recent shootings at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado, there have been serious increases in the number of proposals to help regulate gun use. I...
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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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Fully Automatic David Koresh
1,189 wordsIt started out easy enough. Over a hundred agents from the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms would pack themselves shoulder-to-shoulder inside cattle trailers, and pull up to the front of the building in broad daylight. At the cry of "ShowTime!" The agents would pour out, divide into four columns, and storm the building. Some would surround the building, others would take ladders to the right side, go into the second floor with flash-bang grenades, and still others would storm the front doo...
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Deadly Force Police Officers
1,922 wordsISBN: 0 - 919584 - 63 - 2 NEWS! Directory Grad Programs Information Service Publications WWW Links Police Use of Deadly Force: Canadian Perspectives Duncan Chappell Linda P. Graham ISBN: 0 - 919584 - 63 - 2 Price: CAN $ 9. 00 Dimensions: 6 x 9 inches Pages: xvii + 195 1985 Centre of Criminology, University of Toronto All Rights Reserved This monograph examines an important and, on occasions, controversial subject: the use by Canadian police of deadly force. Although the number of citizens killed...
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Gun Control Laws Assault Weapons
1,776 wordsThe Gun Control issue has sparked major controversy in America today. People who support gun control feel that guns are the reason for the soaring crime rate in our country. I disagree with the supporters of gun control. I feel that because of the black market, violent criminals being released from prison early, and the need to ensure personal safety, stricter gun control will have very little impact on violent crime in America. I believe that gun control works in theory, but not in real life. S...
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Violence In Schools Violent Crime
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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Political Science Quarterly Federal Aid
1,347 words... new to their representatives in Congress and there was as Caraley calls it, a politics of stalemate Reagan was unable to fully change the financial burden onto the states because the states were incapable of being financially independent. Reagan's welfare proposals were not seen as the most efficient way of dealing with the situation when considered by more than one component in the arena. So, through the division of power there are checks and balances between the levels of government. Reaga...
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Learn About Nature Spots To Hunt Deer
482 wordsIn ancient time people hunted to survive. They used the animals for food, clothes, and tools. Today hunting for sport has became popular. Today whitetail deer is one of the most popular animals to hunt in North America. Deer can be found all over the United States. Many people hunt for the whitetail deer all over. This lets hunters learn about an animal and nature. The two methods used to hunt whitetail are by firearm or a bow. Bow hunting consists of more experience then firearm. Firearms are m...
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Growing Problem Of Street Gangs In Canada
1,288 wordsIt is a scenario of nightmarish quality. An unsuspecting innocent individual has taken a short cut to get home late at night and is confronted by a group of individuals on a back street. However, this is no ordinary group of young men and women. This group is what is commonly called a street gang. Usually associated with poorer urban areas of the United States, street gangs have made a huge impact in Canadian Cities. Known for criminal acts such as robbery, assault and even murder, street gangs ...
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Gun Control Advocates Pros And Cons
1,925 wordsGun Control: the Pros and Cons Recently public debates on gun control policy gained new emotional and social colors. Current situation regarding to the concern of the government about gun safety can be illustrated with the following. In 48 states people can legally buy and keep guns, and in 43 states there is no registration or license required for that. In 46 states there are no limitations on the amount of guns, which an individual can buy at a time; only 4 states allow buying one handgun per ...
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Involving Guns Bear Arms
548 wordsSince the days of the pioneers of the United States, firearms have been part of the American tradition as protection and a means of hunting or sport. As we near the end of the 20 th century the use of guns has changed significantly. Because of fast and steady increase in crime and the fight for the right to own a hand gun, the introduction of legislation for gun control, to try to reduce the crime in the United States, has been a hotly debated issue in recent years. Although many people feel tha...
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Gun Control Laws Anti Gun Control
1,303 wordsAI say all guns are good guns. There are no bad guns. I say the whole nation should be an armed nation. Period. @ This rather bold statement was made by Joseph Foss. Former Governor Joseph Foss, a former fighter pilot for the US Air Force, is the current President of the NRA, or National Rifle Association (Lacayo 16). The NRA is a special interest group known by many. Its members are stereotyped to be a group of truck-driving = , pompous, huntsmen. Indeed this is partially true, as 97 % of all N...
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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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Gun Control Firearms Great
227 wordsI think your gun control views are the views of some-one that does not hunt, probably has never hunted, and maybe has never target practiced with a gun. I am 19 and have had a great fascination my whole life with firearms. I really enjoy hunting and target practice. In the great rush to prohibit firearms from bad people (felons), MY rights will be trampled on if any more gun control is passed on a federal or state level. I do not want to give up my right to own an ak- 47 because some dumb-ass ga...
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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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Gun Control Laws Violent Crimes
1,725 wordsStatistics Gun Control Part One Statistics on an issue such as gun control are not hard to come by. The numbers seem to sway in the favor of gun control being ineffective against the epidemic of gun violence that is facing this nation today. There is evidence to support that many guns used for illegal activities are obtained by illegal means anyway, making laws to restrict the purchase of said guns ineffective at keeping firearms out of criminals hands. Evidence also supports the statements that...
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Anti Gun Control Gun Control Laws
936 wordsRegulation of guns is a necessary action that needs to be taken in order to save lives. A good definition of gun control is needed to understand the sides and issues. Gun control is an effort to soothe rise in violent crime by strengthening laws on the ownership of firearms. Persons in the group against gun control believe that gun control is wrong, and that it is a violation of constitutional rights. Those in favor of gun control believe that gun control is good, that the Second Amendment does ...
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Gun Control Laws National Rifle Association
2,018 wordsThe Second Amendment to the Constitution 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, and the definition of gun control is; government regulation of possession and use of firearms by private citizens. At first sight this seems like a contradiction in terms, but before any opinions are formed, lets look at both sides of the issue. This amendment has been around since 1791, and there ha...
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Gun Control Laws Gun Control Debate
1,075 wordsGun control has long been an issue affecting Americans. It has slowly been ruing America. Started in the early part of this century and continuing to be an issue today, gun control is picking up speed and gaining force via many laws that have been put into place. Gun lobbying groups persuade voters and raise citizens awareness and often use the Second Amendment in their fight. Many groups of people are hurt by gun control. As we will see, the only people to benefit from gun control are criminals...
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