Since then, 33 states have passed laws in which students are allowed to carry a concealed weapon on campus. ... Gun owners have appeared to be dangerous according to a Harvard University research, especially those in college have been proven to show how irresponsible they can be with a deadly weapon. ... The number of accidental shootings since certain states have allowed students to carry a concealed weapon has risen drastically. ... Not only do students feel stressed and scared that their could be any deadly situation arise, professors, staff and colleagues feel threatened as well. Due to ...

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When they look away, they turn around only to look down several barrels of small arms weapons with laser guided aim pointed right in between their eyes. ... In Virginia, you can make use of a car as a deadly weapon and run someone over, and get 12 months for involuntary manslaughter. ... With a weapon, you are exercising your American right to bear arms. ... Nowhere in the document does it state the status of the weapon. ... Draw your weapon and see which one of the perps wants to take the chance to find out if your gun is loaded or not. ...

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Now after looking at six different articles in Texts and Contexts on gun control and searching the web, my view on gun control supports banning guns, because too many lives are taken from this deadly weapon. With guns there is more crime and with concealed weapons there are more homicide rates. ... Reinforcing the fact that concealed weapons are the problem is that the rate of homicides by knives and other weapons besides firearms in Seattle and Vancouver were almost the same. ... There is other means of weapons besides guns, which don't take such deadly actions. ... There are other weap...

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Two hundred years ago, firearms weren't as deadly as the firearms that we have today. The weapons that we find these days can be varied as pocketknife to machineguns. Present-day weapons are surely more deadly, especially machine guns, which not only shoots a bullet at a very high speed, but can also shoot around 10 bullets per second. ...

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Handguns are smaller, cancelable weapons, while Riffles are larger, non-cancelable weapons. ... They also make different types of assault and military weapons. ... They focus mostly on riffles, shotguns and assault weapons. ... That dictate what weapon is used for what crime. ... All types of guns are very deadly; each has their own advantages and drawbacks. ...

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They argue the fact that if they couldn't get guns that they would use some other sort of deadly weapon to do the same thing. A good point brought about is; should the government take away all deadly objects from United States citizens such as steak knives. ... Homicides among children often happen due to a irresponsible parent placing a loaded weapon somewhere that can be easily reached by a child that does not quite understand the severity and danger of a gun. ... Another argument for gun control has been set on the fact that some people have been able to attain a small arsenal of weapo...

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Guns are deadly weapons that can change a person's life physically and emotionally, mostly when it is not used properly. ... In order to handle a gun properly, a person needs to have some knowledge about the weapon. ... Decreasing the number of guns will also decrease the homicides that occur through accidental weapon use, or the use of weapon to stop an argument. Sometimes when arguments happen, no one will know when a weapon will be used. ... By limiting the use of a weapon to only the authorities, it will help eliminate the danger and will make people think twice about committing a cri...

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Besides that, The White House (2013) claims that ammunition magazines should be limited to 10 rounds and calling for a ban on assault weapons (page 5). Assault weapons have made many Americans lose their lives that there were not necessary. ... Guns are not toys, they are weapons, deadly weapons that can cost many lives to be lost in seconds. ... In a nutshell, guns are deadly and dangerous, many lives were lost due to guns are already a fact. ...

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Our current laws are outdated and not strict enough, as they allow ordinary people the ability to acquire deadly weapons. ... There are many loopholes that enable criminals and the mentally ill the ability to obtain weapons when they do not satisfy the requirements on their background checks. ... An example of this happened in 2007 when Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people at Virginia Tech University before turning his weapon on himself. ... Bush's 1989 ban on imported rifles resulted in "the number of those assault rifles traced to crime dropped 45 percent in 1990 and In 1994 a federal ban on ...

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The time has come, you raise from the side of your bed, instinctively assuming a marksman's pose and fire just as the intruder is raising his weapon. ... Now what I ask you to picture is that same scenario, but this time only the intruder has a weapon because all guns have been outlawed and the criminal is the only person who can get their hands on them. ... "Most everyone will agree that felons, addicts, morons, juveniles, alcoholics, the mentally incompetent and others in whose hands even an ice pick or baseball bat becomes a deadly weapon, should be denied guns."... "A study . . . reve...

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As more civilians obtain guns for whatever reason, more gun trafficking occurs, allowing mentally unstable people, criminals, or gang members to buy guns and use them for illegal and often deadly purpose. ... Coming from a different approach, many citizens are okay with the ability to purchase semi-automatic or automatic weapons, but push to limit the magazine size to 10 rounds. ...

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Also in robberies and assaults, victims are far more likely to die when the perpetrator is armed with a gun than when he or she has another weapon or is unarmed." ... As you can begin to see many criminal or deadly circumstances are enhanced by the presence of guns, but what about other weapons? More recent studies on weapons and violent crimes have generally concluded that death was at least twice as likely in gun assaults as in knife assaults. ... There is no real way to know if people that own a gun, will use it as a weapon or as a tool for survival, against those who illegally have them. ...

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Also in robberies and assaults, victims are far more likely to die when the perpetrator is armed with a gun than when he or she has another weapon or is unarmed." ... As you can begin to see many criminal or deadly circumstances are enhanced by the presence of guns, but what about other weapons? More recent studies on weapons and violent crimes have generally concluded that death was at least twice as likely in gun assaults as in knife assaults. ... There is no real way to know if people that own a gun, will use it as a weapon or as a tool for survival, against those who illegally have them. ...

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The number of illegal guns in circulation has turned record numbers of everyday encounters into deadly ones. ... People in America don't realize that focusing solely on the weapons obscures the underlying causes of teen gun violence, especially the sense of hopelessness that pervades many inner cities. ...

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