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    twelve-gun homicides and after averaging that settles to seven hundred and sixty-two murdered in Chicago yearly. Nonetheless, those are only murders, not counting the four thousand three hundred and thirty-one shootings in Chicago. Makes one think, “How are these murderers getting guns?”, or “Why are they even allowed to have a gun? What are the police doing?”. Despite the fact, most gun lobbyist of the United States have argued that the current gun control laws are fixing the growing gun violence

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    Guns right now in the nation of the United States of America are at the center of a heated debate on how they should be handled. With Civilians and politicians alike arguing over how they should be regulated we have many arguments for the pros and cons of both sides. Gun control is now one of the most talked about subject in the country due to the vast amount of mass murders and school shootings that have been taken place in recent years. However, even with all this gun violence taken place it seems

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    As opponents against gun control have numerous reasons as to why guns should not be restricted amongst the American public but pointed to the Second Amendment to the United Constitution as the main reason why gun control should not be permitted in the U.S. However, what these critics do not want to accept is that since 1980, several crucial events in the United States have led to excessive gun control movement. Remarkably, it takes a lot more than one appalling catastrophe to influence Americans

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    Guns are one of the many reasons there are multiple violent crimes occurred in the United States. While a great many people see guns as causes of terror, there are others who would prefer them as ways of protecting themselves from various types of potential threat. To this day, the United States is being divided when it comes to gun ownership across the country. The argument always emerges as the number one topic to be discussed whenever catastrophic events had occurred in the United States to the

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    Hopsin Gun Control Against or For? 9/21/2015 In the United States gun control has become very important, every time you watch the news or read the newspaper you hear about gun related violence in the U.S. It isn’t just war, suicide, and gang related incidents, it is kids killing kids. On February 29, 2000 there was six year old boy who accidently killed a classmate, who was also six years old. Prior that day the two children was witnessed to have been a in a fight and the boy brought the gun to simply

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    the United States. It's the controversial issue on whether or not guns are safe for the United States. Pro gun control activists believe putting restrictions on guns would benefit the country tremendously. However, the anti-gun control people do not want the government taking over their second amendment right. Many believe that gun legislation should be put into place to prevent crime, while others believe that putting laws on guns interferes with citizens' constitutional second amendment rights

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    Pro-Gun laws The gun violence and gun control in america needs help but should we add more guns laws. Do you think we should add gun laws to make it more difficult to purchase a weapon. I think that their should be more gun laws to make it harder to purchase a gun any every state. First, we could keep the mentally ill people from getting weapons and hurting people. Crime that is related to sick people having guns and using that to hurt others. Chicago

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    Gun Control The argument over gun control is an ongoing debate with the first big written regulation dating back to when the 2nd amendment was first written in 1791. The second amendment 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” (Legal Information Institute). Since then it has been fought over time and time again about what this statement truly means and what it entitles for people

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    twelve-gun homicides and after averaging that up that settled to seven hundred and sixty-two murdered in Chicago yearly. However, those are only murders that is not counting the four thousand three hundred and thirty-one shootings in Chicago. Makes one think, “How are these murderers getting guns?”, or “Why are they even allowed to have a gun? What are the police doing?”. Although most gun lobbyist of the United States have argued that the current gun control laws are fixing the growing gun violence

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    people depart from this earth due to gun violence in the US every day. From school children, to victims of domestic violence, to people going about their daily lives, this status quo is unacceptable. On Tuesday January 5th, 2016 President Obama announced that he would send proposals on reducing gun violence in America to Congress. His spokesman, Jay Carney, mentioned that this is “a complex problem that will require a complex solution.” The ability to own a gun is considered by some a birthright of

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