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    Gun Violence In America

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    Gun Violence in the United States of America Every day there is another story in the news about excessive gun violence, accidents with guns involving children who found loaded guns in the house or unnecessary gun violence by police forces. Due to the US allowing and making it so easy for citizens to have guns and for their security forces to shoot without strict rules or consequences, lots of innocent people are killed without having any way to defend themselves. ICCPR US is in violation of

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    Gun Violence Analysis

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    Gun violence in America has become an increasingly more controversial topic over the years as a result of a continuance in devastating mass shootings. A nonprofit organization, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, has attempted to advocate for further restriction of guns in America by releasing a series of shocking images in which guns are depicted in some form of closeness to young children. Such images often ironically contrast the gun to another harmless item to emphasize the lack of

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    Gun violence in America is a huge topic of discussion. Many people have heard about this topic on the news or in the newspaper, but have very little knowledge on this ongoing topic. Those who have a lack of information on gun control tend to not feel strongly towards guns or people owning or carrying guns. People that have never been around guns are often scared of them, but the truth is a gun is nothing more than a hunk of metal. For a gun to go off the gun needs a shooter, so should the real topic

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    Exposure To Gun Violence

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    seems to be spreading across all age groups regardless. The spread now allows people to own guns and use it for their protection. Of course, there is nothing bad in protecting oneself with a gun, but it is not proper when an underage is unnecessarily exposed to a deadly weapon all in the name of protection. The unnecessary exposure of a child to guns and some other weapons has further led to a rise of violence among the children. More so, when the parent who is supposed to take care of a child is being

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    Gun violence is a very controversial topic because everyone has their own perspectives on this particular topic. There are so many crimes caused by fire arms that it’s just plain out ridiculous. Many people have lost their lives due to gun violence and other crimes due to the use of a gun. Although guns are used for protection in certain cases, but most of the time they are not. There aren’t too many cases where someone used a gun for self-defense but there are many news stories and etcetera about

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    The topic I chose to study was gun regulations. 2. My topic is socially significant because many people every day die from the result of gun violence. I wanted to search if there was any way we could improve our gun regulations, and thus reduce how many people die from the gun violence. 3. The most surprising thing I learned doing my research was how oppose the NRA (National Rifle Association) is to any change in gun regulations. They are the main reason many new gun regulation rules are never passed

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    Gun Violence Thesis

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    A Generation Raised On Gun Violence. This article is by CNN and has the title of A generation raised on gun violence sends a loud message to adults: Enough, this is talked about throughout the article. They also talk about the agenda for what the students wanted by doing all the walk outs and protest. Ban assault weapons, Require universal background checks before gun sales; Pass a gun violence restraining order law that would allow courts to disarm people who display warning signs of violent

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    Gun Violence Proposal

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    Gun violence in the United States has been a growing anomaly. Everyday 309 people die from guns in America, and this number is growing. These tragedies can be a result of suicide, murder, gang related, racially motivated, accidents etc. In the past, many policy makers in Washington have attempted to create a law to decrease the number of gun related deaths, however, many of these attempts have become unsuccessful. The second amendment, the right to bear arms, is a right given to the citizens of the

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    Gun Violence Effects

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    In the 2002 article “Mitigating the Effects of Gun Violence on Children and Youth” James Garbarino and co-authors pointed out that “children exposed to gun violence may experience negative short and long-term psychological effects, including anger, withdrawal, posttraumatic stress, and desensitization to violence”, the result of which, they believe can continue a “cycle of violence” (Garbarino 1). The report suggests that children exposed to violence are often times victims of Post-Traumatic Stress

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    The Ad On Gun Violence

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    The ad on gun violence send a message about hand guns. In the ad it had an American theme gun and it said, “Stop handguns before they stop you” (Boyko). This ad brings up one of the biggest problem in today’s society. Over the year’s gun violence has increased significantly in various parts of the world. There is a big debate on whether the gun laws are strict enough. It is sad to hear about some sort of gun violence or death of a person each day on the news or social media. Each day more and more

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