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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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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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Concealed Weapons Concealed Carry
997 wordsA woman in Texas is in the middle of a massacre. Dining with her parents, a man comes in and begins a murderous rampage. While lying on the floor, she reaches for a gun in her purse, but it isnt there. While people are dying, her gun is lying in the trunk of her car, because of Texas law against concealed carry. Twenty two people were murdered that day, including Suzanna Gratias parents. Because of this law, Suzanna was helpless to save her parents, and twenty others. Because Texas legislature s...
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Gun Control Laws Washington D C
1,938 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. "...
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1,014 wordsGunshot Wounds The handgun is the primary weapon in law enforcement. It is the one weapon any officer or agent can be expected to have available whenever needed. Its purpose is to apply deadly force to not only protect the life of the officer and the lives of others, but to prevent serious physical harm to them as well. When an officer shoots a subject, it is done with the explicit intention of immediately incapacitating that subject in order to stop the subject poses. Immediate incapacitation i...
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Gun Control Legislation Stricter Gun Control
4,315 wordsBrady bill and its passage Introduction The legislative process in the United States Congress shows us an interesting drama in which a bill becomes a law through compromises made by diverse and sometimes conflicting interests in this country. There have been many controversial bills passed by Congress, but among all, I have taken a particular interest in the passage of the Brady bill. When the Brady debate was in full swing in Congress about three years ago, I was still back in my country, Japan...
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Cooling Off Period Year Old Woman
1,306 wordsMore Women and Children Killed By The Brady Bill The following stories represent examples of what happens when political power brokers like Sarah Brady start to define the parameters of public safety. There is nothing public or safe about the process that culminates in lethal legislation such as the Brady Bill. President William Jefferson Clinton shares equally in being responsible for the deaths of these Americans. Sadly, these examples are examples of disposable women and children. That is, th...
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Hundred Thousand Hundred Fifty
1,414 wordsGuns A gun gives criminals the power of life and death over ordinary, innocent citizens, and because of that reason there are countless robberies, rapes, and assaults carried out with handguns. There are two hundred thousand robberies and one hundred thousand aggravated assaults are committed with handguns every year. Over two hundred thousand handguns are stolen every year; a sizeable proportion is later used in criminal activity. A firearm in the home carries out associated risks. Guns in the ...
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Assault Weapon Ban Gun Control Laws
4,380 wordsGun Control Government 2301 02 November 1996 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. Amendment II, Bill of Rights Constitution of the U. S. The Second Amendment has been a major issue in American politics since 1876. In question is the intent of this Amendment. Was it meant to insure that people in general have arms for personal service, or was it intended to insure arms for military service...
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1,122 words? The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subjected people to carry arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subjected peoples to carry arms have prepared their own fall. ? This quote was said by the ruler of Germany, Adolph Hitler, during the Edict of March 18, 1938. He realized that the people were violent, and allowing them to carry arms would be disastrous. Today, in America handgun violence is at an astronomical high. Statistics prove that...
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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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Accidental Deaths Domestic Violence
558 wordsHandgun Gun Control Gun Control Handgun violence in the United States has been getting out of hand, and it is time to act upon this monstrosity. There have been politicians who have passed mandatory laws that require trigger locks on guns, but this method of safety has proved to be quite ineffective. People find a way to get around using the trigger lock s, and these laws are not enforced enough. Many states require that extensive background checks must be done before an individual is allowed to...
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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 Accidents Anti Gun
1,614 wordsAs early as 1976 it was estimated that more had been written on gun control than on all other crime-related topics combined. The literature that was written before this time was very flawed and severely biased. The reason for this bias was the academics could see no reason why anyone should own a weapon in a democracy, and why should they? The only studies that were done were problematic ones, such as gun accidents, gun violence, and gun ownership among extremist groups. Due to these early writi...
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Law Abiding Citizens Concealed Handgun
10,996 wordsStates from Michigan to Nebraska to California, as well as the federal government, are considering new rules on letting law-abiding citizens carry guns. Does allowing citizens to carry concealed handguns deter violent crimes? Or does this cause otherwise law-abiding citizens to harm each other? Thirty-one states now have guaranteed their citizens the right to carry concealed handguns if applicants do not have a criminal record or a history of significant mental illness. So what have the results ...
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