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Becoming A Texas Senator Essay

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If I were to become a senator of Texas I would have to be at least thirty years of age, have been a citizen for nine years, and live within the state of Texas. Since the Senate consists of a hundred members, two per state, I would be one of two people to be elected for Texas State Senator.I would be active six terms and would make $174,00 a year. A Congressional Session usually last most of the year. The Senate met 136 days through the course of ten months according to Congress.gov.
As a Senator of Texas I would like more strict gun laws. I know that this issue has been brought up over the past few years and that it didn’t do so well with texans, but I do believe that a better gun control plan would benefit the state. Statistics state that the United States has over three hundred million civilian firearms in circulation and twenty times the homicide rate than all other western nations combined. And recent practices conducted in other countries have proven that the restriction of guns has had a dramatic impact on the death rate. For example, Japan passed a law in 1958 prohibiting the possession of firearms. Since then Japan has become the country with the second-lowest death rate in the world. Similarly, after passing strict gun laws in the 1990’s, Australia and the United Kingdom have noticed a drastic decrease in gun-related deaths. Don’t get me wrong I like the sense of security from knowing that everyone in …show more content…

Many articles state that gun control can be discussed in either the House of Representatives or the Senate. Since I’m a Senator I’ll be providing information over the Judiciary Committee within the Senate. The Senate Judiciary Committee has jurisdiction over federal criminal laws, human rights, immigration laws, intellectual property laws, antitrust laws, and internet privacy laws. The gun control policy that was proposed by President Barack Obama was considered under this

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