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    not have a gun. They have a gun in their hand and are pointing it at everyone in the room. Mentally unstable people or a criminal can get guns easily and they can harm people. It is not fair for someone to have to worry about getting hurt or killed when they go out. Gun regulation is the attempt to lower crime rate by tightening and creating laws on gun possession. Gun regulation is very important to understand because it is easy to obtain guns. It is easy for anyone to purchase a gun and experience

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    homicides, France less than 50. It is also estimated that there are around 270 million guns in America. This paper examines the possibility that if the American government put into place gun regulation laws, and made penalties more harsh for gun related crimes, the national murder rates would go down. History of Gun Legislation Exploring the history of America and its past gun policies yields answers on America’s views on gun ownership.The

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    controversial problems. With strict gun control, Americans cannot feel safe, and to some the thought of not being able to use a firearm in self-defense is very frightening. We Americans should never have to be in fear of not being able to protect ourselves, especially in the comfort of our own home. How are strict gun control laws and regulations going to reach the estimated 65 million gun owners that own approximately 240 million firearms (Just Facts Gun Control)? The answer is simple, they can’t

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    What Was The Case About?

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    the case about? (Summary of the Case) ATF “GunWalking” operations came about from the criticism of the bureau for focusing on relatively minor gun violations while failing to target high-level gun smuggling figures. Currently, the U.S. firearms laws govern the possession and transfer of firearms and provide penalties for the violation of such laws. “Gun trafficking” for the most part, includes the movement or diversion of firearms from legal to illegal markets. However, A United States Government

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    Brief History of the Nra

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    History of the NRA The National Rifle Association in its simplest form is the largest gun club in the world. The organization was founded in 1871 by former Union Army officers to encourage sport shooting in order to have a fine tuned militia in case of emergency. The Union officers believed that a well regulated militia was integral for the security of a free state. It is an organization that opposes gun control, it believes in the individual defense of the uses of firearms, and it is interested

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    come into question until 1822. A Kentucky court case indicted a man for carrying a sword concealed in a cane. The man was fined $100.00. But it wasn’t until 1856, that the second amendment was affirmed by the US Supreme Court, that the ownership of a gun was extended to individuals as a right. It would be

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    TABLE OF CONTENTS:_______________________________________________________ 1. Executive Summary ...………………………………………………………………………… 2 2. Thesis …………………………………………………………………………………………. 3 3. History and Analyzing the Problem …………………………………………………………... 4 4. Methods ………………………………………………………………………………….......... 6 5. Evidence …………………………………………………………………………………

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    The Issue Of Gun Violence

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    Professor Cassel English 1201- 27 October 2015 Gun Violence The United States is one of the few countries were the right to bear arms is protected by the constitution. Unfortunately, it is also one of the most violent with incidents involving guns this year reaching an estimated 36,212 and an approximate 9,050 deaths (“Gun Violence Archive”). There are an estimated 310 million firearms in households across American, these are only estimates because current gun laws do not require them to be registered

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    Background checks are the most effective way of preventing gun crimes. There are multiple cases of school and community shootings and how it could be prevented if there were some sort of system to catch perpetrators. Gun violence has been an issue since the 1970s and started to peak in the 1980s and 1990s. Gun Violence is violence committed with the use of a gun and recently there has been an increase in gun crimes, but due to background checks they have decreased. A background check is the process

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    “The boundaries of the Second Amendment do not coincide with the boundaries of gun control” (Blocher and Miller, 2016, p.296). Guns and the idea of gun control have been a high valued topic, between the Federal Government and state governments since the beginning of the 20th century. How strictly guns should be regulated is a common topic between the Federal Government and state governments, especially with the increase in mass shootings over the years. Although there are regulations set by the

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