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    Gun Violence In Canada

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    Canada Report Canada has been the more superior country over the United States, when it comes to gun control. It has been a social media crisis with all the killings that has happened over the last few years,that the United States has been known for this ongoing tragedy of gun violence. It has been proven that the United States owns more guns than Canada,space having over 50% more firearms per capita than the next two highest nations, Serbia and Yemen. According to STATS CAN report from 2012, it

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    America today, all because of gun violence. It has become a great problem for our society in recent years. Data from Every Town Research has shown In their article Gun Violence by the Numbers “...that on an average day, 93 Americans are killed with guns...For every one person killed, two are injured” Many will deny that gun violence is a dilemma, but it is. Most do not realize this but, over 62% of the deaths are suicide, and just over 1,642 people killed by gun violence were unintended. There is something

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    Gun violence And How to End it (hook)Many states have gone back and forth when discussing whether or not to arm teachers. Some may jump to conclusions and foolheartedly vote to ban guns because of the stigma they carry, but arming teachers is one of, if not the best way, to keep children safe from the threat of gun violence. This dilemma, one that has ignited major controversy in modern politics, is one that needs an immediate response. With the world evolving many things have drastically changed

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    The Stop Of Gun Violence

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    the stop of gun violence is the Law Center To Prevent Gun Violence. This groups motto is “Because smart gun laws save lives”, and they dedicate the work they are trying to achieve to the victims and their families from the 101 California Street shooting in San Francisco. This organization helps to provide extensive and in-depth summaries of the United States federal, state, and local laws and policies involving firearms. They try to be the most comprehensive resource of information on gun regulations;

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    In recent years gun violence has increased significantly in various parts of the world. There are more cases of children and young adults engaging in violence or getting caught in the crossfire. Is there anyone to blame ? There has been debate over whether gun laws are strict enough and what else can be done to reduce such acts from occurring. With more lives being affected on a regular basis, more concerns arise as to how people can live safe lives when guns are being used in increasing numbers

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    Gun Violence Debate

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    The issue of gun violence has recently grown in importance worldwide. In 2018 so far, there has been around 9,000 injuries and 5,000 deaths due to gun violence. What has happened in society to cause this increase and what can be done to decrease gun violence? Many feel that there are not enough gun laws and others feel that no more gun licenses should be issued. All that anyone can agree on is that things need to change. The United States government can decrease gun violence by creating stronger

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    Limiting Gun Violence

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    To begin, limiting gun violence would be made easier if they conducted more gun violence research in America. According to Newsweek, some people say that gun control laws violate our rights. After the Sandy Hook shooting, former President Barack Obama called on the CDC to further study gun violence. However, the order has had no effect on anything and the NIH actually took steps backward in trying to close its gun-violence research programs that it currently has. (Frankel, 2017) By taking these steps

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    Gun Vilence has been considered a public health crisis for some time. It has been a constiant battle to fund studies, adn pass more legilative measures ( Nelson, 2017). Last year, the American Medical Association (AMA) issued a statement declaring gun violence “a public health crisis” and called for a comprehensive public health response and solution (Nelson, 2017). Research on gun violence has been limited, partly owing to a 1996 congressional appropriations bill stating that “none of the funds

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    Paper On Gun Violence

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    Gun Violence Turning on the news and hearing about a shooting or a armed robbery has become normal. Everyone has a gun now a days, even young kids get their hands on guns. The media teaches these children that having a gun is what makes you “cool”. If a 8 year old boy stole his dads gun and showed all his friends he would be praised. Imagine getting a call from the school saying your son is dead because his friend brought a gun to school and it went off. This has become a sad reality of something

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    express society’s dark side, the obsession of guns and violence. I think most rap artists rap about violence and guns to not to promote these things but to bring awareness to their audience about these issues; but this is usually not always the case in the rap world. Of course, this can easily be misinterpreted by people thinking that all rappers approve of violence, weapons, and inappropriate acts. There are also some rappers that do rap about violence because they think it will appeal to a certain

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