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    In the article, Dear Mona: How many Americans have never shot a gun?, Mona Chalabi provides information to answer her reader’s, Curtis, question. In October 2007, Gallup did a survey on “Have you, personally, fired a gun?”, in which 31 percent answered “no”. However, not much has changed since then and there hasn’t been enough data to draw any conclusion. Thus, Mona decided to look at surveys about gun ownership instead. Most surveys that Mona found did not get similar results. The General Social

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    Restrictions that talk about gun owners moving around in public with these firearms have arose a number of contentious debates in recent decades. Colleges, in this case, have been among places that commonly forbid legal gun owners from coming with these guns to colleges and universities. However, this exception has been noted to change in recent years. Eight states have generated laws that permit persons who can own guns to walk with them on college campuses. However, in about 24 states, bringing

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    According to gun advocates, “If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns” (Stossel). Many people including government officials and American citizens question whether the gun ban across the nation will actually reduce the overall violence or will it take a turn for the worse by creating a rebellion. In the past, the threat of taking guns away created an uprising in a group of outlaws’ rage and fury. There was a murderous killing spree that occurred in Oregon in the month of October that was

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    There has been a steady decline in gun deaths in Australia since they increased the regulations on firearms in 1996. Prior to the 1996 National Firearms Agreement gun policy in Australia was “relatively lenient” (Library of Congress – Australia 2). Gun policy in Australia was regulated by each individual state or mainland territory in Australia, and was not a federal matter (Library of Congress – Australia 2). Within Australia the only aspect of gun policy that the federal government was involved

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    Name: Institution: Course: Date: Gun Control in the USA Gun ownership is a general topic that has remained the greatest challenge to the US security agencies. This is because the American Bill of Rights gives all citizens enough rights of owning guns individually (Baldrige 112). In the American tradition, this right has a long history. It dates back to the time when colonists settled in North America. Since then, each person in the US was allowed to own a private gun for self defense (Bellesiles 67)

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    citizen of district four. I have recently been looking into different views and perspectives on gun violence, and ways to help solve the issue in the United States without having it limit citizen’s right to bear arms. After the shooting in Las Vegas in early October where almost sixty people were left dead and five hundred others were injured, I was questioning the current policies and views of gun control in America (Times 2017). Some people believe that as a country we should prohibit the right of

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    Gun Control Essay

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    Today in the United States, there are about 88.8 guns per 100 people; that ratio is equivalent to about 270 million guns, which is the highest amount in the world (Gun-control). In today’s era, it has been a hot topic on whether or not America should have stricter gun laws. Gun control is the regulation of selling, owning, and the use of guns (Merrriam- webster). I believe that we should have more regulated gun control laws because I don’t think an American citizen should have the right to just walk

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    Gun Control Essay

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    Gun Control In many recent events, the controversy over gun control has risen to its peak. Heated debates from people of all cultures have argued about this topic. Most European countries though have come to the conclusion that some form of gun control is necessary, such as restricting the purchase of certain types of firearms. But in America, many argue that the Second Amendment protects our right to own guns or that we need guns for our own protection. On the other hand, others argue that guns

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    Gun Control Killings

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    “Is Gun Control Likely to Reduce Violent Killings?” by Frank Zimring attempts to bring gun control laws and issues to a resolution. Zimring tells why he believes gun control laws are good, and why he thinks gun control laws will not make that big of a difference in society. The author makes a valid point when he states that gun control laws would cut down on people harming others using firearms, but would not cut down on people using other weapons to harm others. Zimring elaborates on the idea

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    The Issue Of Gun Control

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    Gun control has been a major problem in our society because it’s been in the (Molly)world just know one payed it any attention. In the year of 2014 a young man Travon martin passed away and it became a question of gun control. Gun laws are the cause of much of the violent crime in the United States and it needs to change who Is illegal interactions transportation of guns and mass shootings around the United States. Many people question the guns around our society and people asking the cause of or

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