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    support her authority to possess a gun. Because she was such a peace-loving woman, carrying a gun would be a fallacy. Her stated cause and effects gave this article logical appeal on the subject of carrying guns for safety purposes. Although she establishes good

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    option would be for the safety and well-being of the country: should we limit the purchase of firearms? Does owning a firearm increase the safety of a person? Should people who are mentally ill be allowed to have access to guns or live in a household with guns? Could an increase in gun control cause the safety of the community to decrease? There are two arguments in the debate regarding gun control. On one side of the debate believes gun laws should become stricter for public safety and the other side

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    Civilians Access to Firearms According to La Valle (2013), the ability for law abiding American citizens to have access and ownership to firearms is not only a Constitutional right, but is also an effective safety measure for those living on the homefront. It allows a country 's people to protect themselves, their family and those they care about from any form of evil

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    two days. Parents do not realize that children get the physical capacity to reach and discharge a firearm long before the ability to understand the potential consequences of these actions. Parents who insist on keeping guns in the home should be urged strongly to store their firearms unloaded and locked in a secure place. Actions like these will reduce the probability of children being killed by a firearm. The presence of handguns

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    public safety and awareness. Each type of gun violence must be addressed: accidental death, suicide, homicide, and mass shootings. I plan on addressing these issues through a mixture of public education, public awareness, and an increase in the governmental responsibility to the mental health of it’s constituents. I believe that to reduce the rate of accidental deaths, that firearm safety should be a mandatory requirement for everyone. I don’t think it’s sufficient enough to teach firearm safety

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    in our communities has increased significantly, which frightens people and inclines them to carry their own gun. There are several factors that can cause someone to want to carry a firearm such as, a recent

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    Teachers Concealed Carrying Firearms Imagine being in a classroom of an elementary school and hearing loud shots from the hall. Many teacher’s first instinct would be to protect the students in the classroom and move them out of the way of harm. In the Sandy Hook school shooting, twenty students’ ages six and seven, and six teachers lost their lives due to an armed intruder. Initially the vice principal and school psychologist heard the sounds of gun shots and entered the hall to investigate. One

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    constitutional there is no predicting the outcome. The only certainty is the results would not benefit law-abiding citizens who want to own a firearm, and want the right to purchase one whenever they see fit to do so. Of course, the current administration and politicians across the country with their rhetoric are fueling the surge in sales. Nothing gets citizens in a firearm buying mode faster than the fear of losing the right to buy one in the future.

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    his pistol, ending the chaos that had concurred (Netzley 1). This conflicted event brought uproar, leading many people to began questioning the rights of firearms, and whether or not more laws should be requested. More regulation would subsist gun holders from harming other people, as well as straightening out the misguidance of it being a safety measure, and taking into consideration of the other gun owners wanting better gun restriction. Fig. 1.

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    suffering from a mental disorder and had easy access to firearms. The rise of mass shootings in the past 20 years has caused a huge uproar and imbalance in the media. With the mass hysteria and president Obama’s proposal of stricter gun laws, no one has taken the time to actually consider what the main problem is. The main problem is not the guns, but the amount of mentally ill members of society who have easy access to their parents/families firearms and the criminals who buy them off the black market

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