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    Gun Control "Gun Control." Opposing Viewpoints Online Collection. Detroit: Gale, 2016. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 30 Apr. 2016. In this website, it discusses the debatable topic of gun control. In the article titled Gun Control, it states that the “The United States is the leader in per-capita gun deaths among industrial nations.” The main point of this article was to get the point across about the controversy that this has brought into the United States, not only does it quote influential

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    Despite centuries of evidence that gun control laws do not lower crime, stop violence, or make society safer in any way, gun control advocates continue to chip away at our Second Amendment rights. For a group (yes, liberals) who typically don’t care for hard work, working hard to rob us of our freedom to keep and bear, seems to suit them just fine. I hate to bore you with the same ol’ statistics showing how strict gun control laws are followed by giant spikes in violent crimes or with arguments

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    Guns have are a major role in the history of the United States. The US has the most firearms in the entire world as a country. Guns are part of the culture and a major part of people’s lives and our country would not be the same without them. Gun control would restrict weapons that are used legally and safely a majority of the time and not used as a weapon of death. Gun control will not protect United States citizens because of the unpredictability of people's actions, black market dealers, and the

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    called “LEGISLATIVE”. The beginning of this page starts with the title “Bad Bills” it includes a list of the bills in Texas’s legislation that the TSRA would like to stop through the members choice of vote. The list contains a few of the following: Senate Bill 221 which promotes a list of firearm owners possessed solely by the FBI. Also House Bill 234, which “strengthens anti-gun language to allow tax-payer owned property to be leased and managed by a private management firm which can post this tax-payer

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    America today. Gun-free zones are seen as a way to make the American population safer by preventing gun violence and mass shootings. Gun-control advocates want to enact these gun-free zones in many areas throughout the country. In a time where mass shootings and violent crimes seem to occur all the time, gun-free zones sound like a viable solution. The thought is, if no guns are allowed in certain areas, violence and murder could be prevented. Guns are seen as the problem, and if guns are banned in

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    Guns have played a major role in America from the American Revolution, to the constitution and the “right to bear arms,” and in recent years the political debate over gun control and mass shootings. The strong feelings on either side of the gun control debated are tied to how Americans view guns. Guns are symbols and can stand for many different things, and what guns symbolize is particularly important to many pro-gun advocates. According to the articles, for many Americans guns symbolize freedom

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    writers naturally put the gun right to the Constitution. The founding farther Thomas Jefferson clearly stated in the Declaration of Independence, citizens have the right to oppose tyranny. So Americans believe that this is the people's right to possess weapons(guns). It is the foundation of a nation.

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    The issue of gun control has always been debatable in the United States. In the United States for every 100 people there is 88.8 guns. This is the highest number of guns in the world. There have been many mass shootings even at an elementary school. One of the deadliest massacre happened at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Connecticut. Twenty-six children and six adults are killed on December 14, 2012. Due to all the gun violence President Obama felt a need to update and expand background

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    misused guns, guns provide protection and the government should stay away from the second amendment and not pass anymore laws concerning gun control. Supporters of gun control always try and make the point that the second amendment does not give a license to the general public to own a firearm. The second amendment only gives that right to a well-regulated militia. A well-regulated militia is the safety of a free state which also happens to be the right of the people to own and bear arms. Gun control

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    Violence is out of control, and guns are a major cause - Should Guns Be Banned? introduction. This is a belief many Americans now share. This belief is fueling a nationwide movement that could result in a total prohibition on private-gun ownership in the near future. Just imagine if every handgun owner was made to dispose of their gun, how much more peaceful the U. S. or rather the world would be? Ownership of private guns is being banned one step at a time. The recently enacted Brady Bill mandates

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