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Gun Rights Advocates
2,358 wordsGuns, like many other issues of the day, have two distinct and opposing views with many people in the middle or undecided. Even following the tragic events of December 7, 1993, when unemployed handyman Colin Ferguson boarded the LIR's 5: 33 out of Penn Station. Ferguson waited until the train, filled with local commuters on their way home, pulled out of the Hicksville station before drawing a 9 mm pistol. Ferguson then opened fire walking up and down the aisle shooting pass angers indiscriminate...
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Bush's Opinions On Abortion And Gun Control
1,429 wordsPresidential Campaign 2000 In the presidential campaign for the year 2000, there are a small number of men running for the spot, and all these men have different opinions on different issues. In this paper, some of the issues and opinions of Ralph Nader from the Green Party, Al Gore from the Democratic Party and Republican George W. Bush have been highlighted. To start off, the issue of Abortion is big these days. Do we let women do it or not? Democratic Candidate Al Gore personally opposes abor...
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Gun Control In The U.S. News
777 wordsGun Control in the United States News is all around us and is readily available to everyone. There are many flaws in the system that hurts the authenticity of the news when you see it. The media is indirectly part of the political system. Most news is either considered liberal or conservative by many. The media is often considered to be biased. The reason for this is because they do not act neutral on the things that they report on. They usually give their point of view and tend to warp the info...
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Sales At Gun
1,935 wordsChristopher Jelliffe CMP 272 Research Paper Final Draft August 22, 1999 The American Arsenal Firearms are so pervasive in this country that sometimes we forget the price we pay for an all-too-easy access to guns. According to the Centers for Disease Control, 10,744 Americans were murdered with firearms in 1996. However, only 174 of these homicides were justifiable. In 1995 alone, 35,957 Americans were killed with firearms, in homicides, suicides and accidents. In comparison, 33,651 Americans wer...
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Major Contemporary Challenges To Gun Control Cochran
2,022 wordsFor many years there has been an ongoing debate over what to do about gun control. Handguns kill between 20 and 25 thousand people every year, and that includes the 15,000 annual suicides as a result of these weapons. The reason so many of these suicides are successful is because of the presence of a gun. (Cochran, 189) According to the Violence Policy Center (VPC), "the United States has not so much a firearm problem as a handgun problem". Clarke Cochran, et al, tells us in his book, American P...
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Why Not Real Gun Control A Handguns
1,131 wordsHandgun Control in the United States Outline Thesis: Handguns should be outlawed with the exception of law enforcement purposes. I. Why Not Real Gun Control? A. Handguns are too easily accessible to America's youth. II. Kids: A Deadly Force. A. Kids are killing each other all across America.. A Look At The Brady Bill IV. The Economics of Crime. A. Americans are spending too much money each year to protect themselves. V. Charts and Figures. A. Where Americans are spending all their money on prote...
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Advocates Of Gun Control State
1,046 wordsPresently in our nation, a controversy is shelling around the issue of gun control. Civilian ownership of firearms has for more than two hundred years been the very cornerstone upon which the liberty of the public has been supported. The very reason that Americans have never suffered a tyranny on the scale of Nazi-Germany has been due to the proliferation of firearms in the hands of the general public. The Second Amendment to the Bill of rights of the United States Constitution states 'A well re...
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Issue Of Gun Control
1,821 wordsI. 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 action decrease pain...
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On Gun Control
2,890 words'From My Cold, Dead Hands!' When anyone mentions "gun control", it makes me cringe with disbelief. It is impossible for me to understand why people want to (and might some day) take away my right to gun ownership. They defend their cases by using examples of school shootings and gang violence; this is unremarkably insane to me. The idea that today's politicians could change the laws of our great land by using the examples of a few misguided youngsters brings back into view other leaders who have...
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People Use Guns
2,062 words18 November 1998 Our Right to Bear Arms Gun prohibitionists would have you think that the only legitimate purpose for owning a firearm is "sporting purposes" such as hunting or target shooting. However, the Second Amendment was not included in the Bill of Rights so people could go duck hunting or punch holes in paper targets. There is a lot more to owning a firearm than "sporting purposes". For most people, a firearm is the most practical and effective means that they have of defending against a...
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Strict Background Checks At Gun
1,615 wordsTeens of the decade are having an easier time obtaining firearms with which they are jaunting around on killing sprees. The most recent incident occured on Tuesday, April 20, 1999 at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. That fateful Tuesday began as any other day with a 6: 15 a.m. bowling class which both murderers, Dylan Klebold-17 and Eric Harris-18, attended. Both of prominent backgrounds, Eric's father a retired Air Force officer and Dylan's father a geologist, the two belonged to a...
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Hand Gun
1,562 wordsImagine today, somebody or government came into your town and started taking possession of all your personal fire arms. Just so they could keep you under their control. What would you think or do about this In the summer of 1768, the British army tried to disarm the new residents of Boston. This process went on until the end of 1775. This took place so that the King of England would not have his invincible army revolted against in the new land to the West. The bostonian's of the new west were re...
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Gun Control In Our Country
723 wordsAmerica a Nation of Illogical Politics The political intentions of our country have become increasingly more ludicrous and illogical as conservatism sets in. Many politicians have ideas about how to change and improve our country, but they are so out of touch with the general population, that they don t understand how these ideas, if implemented, would harm, rather than help our country. For example, if abortions were banned, welfare done away with, and contraception not covered by insurance, th...
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Example Of Gun Control Legislation
2,259 wordsIn the 1960's after the assassinations of President John F. Kenedy, Dr. Martin Luther King, and Senator Robert F. Kenedy, gun control became a major subject of public passion and controversy. To some people gun control is a crime issue, to others it is a rights issue. Gun control is a safety issue, an education issue, a racial issue, and a political issue, among others. Within each of these issues there are those who want more gun control legislation and those who want less. On both sides of thi...
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Second Amendment Of The Constitution
2,594 wordsThe Unfortunate American Way As the prime minister of Australia decided to abolish guns in his country he stated, "This country has decided not to go down the American path". The amount of absurd violence with handguns in this country is out of control. The United States of America, the world superpower, has more gun related deaths than almost all of the other leading countries combined. The example we are setting is non-existent, for we are showing the weakness of our country by letting this oc...
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Gun Control
1,017 wordsGun control has been a controversial issue for years. A vast majority of citizens believe that if gun control is strictly enforced it would quickly reduce the threat of crime. Many innocent people feel they have the right to bear arms for their own protection. But, how much protection can a gun provide? The mindset that guns are an obvious solution for crime rate reduction is a very popular one, but also very untrue. More guns = more crime or at least a much smaller reduction in the crime rate. ...
