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Have you ever wondered what a blacksmith and munitions maker at a Sugar Plantation in the 1800s was like? At the Levi Jordan Plantation, an excavation revealed a cabin that indicates a resident that worked lead, manufactured lead shot, and possibly other metals. This cabin is now called the “Smith’s Cabin”. At the Plantation, western artifacts used in African cultural context have been found during an excavation. Indications from these artifacts show that although these African and African Americans were no longer in their original cultural context, they still maintained some of their African cultural beliefs. At the Munition Makers’ cabin, the

Guns are one of the most controversial and debated-upon topics in America today. In the Constitution, Americans are given “the right to bear arms,” and many Americans are proud of and believe strongly in that right. Though, that right has been constantly misused. Homicides by gun are at a higher rate in the United States than any other country in the world, mass shootings are at an all time high (many of which have occurred in the past two years alone), and terrorism has been at an all-time high. So, naturally, it is a topic that needs to be discussed. In the articles Change Your Gun Laws, America (1), author Fareed Zakaria provides the readers with some harrowing statistics on guns and insight over how the U.S. laws on guns need to be managed.

For a nation as advanced as the United States the death of thousands of people each year is an issue affecting and concerning every American. With this problem occurring almost every year, the question of whether or not gun licenses can guarantee the safety of citizens throughout the country has been raised. With the number of deaths created by firearms each year, the need for enforcing stricter gun-control laws has grown increasingly. In addition, with the amount of fear throughout the country, and concern for protection, many people are beginning to buy firearms through simple and easy ways. Throughout America there are numerous ways for citizens to find and purchase weapons, whether it is in a gun store or online, the possibilities are endless.

It will come as no surprise to learn that the United States has the highest rate of gun ownership in the Western World. In fact, the United States is described as a place with its own unique culture around firearms (Kohn, 2004). Given the violence associated with firearms, it behooves policy makers to come up with sound policies that will allow individuals the freedom to exercise their constitutional right as contained in the 2nd Amendment, while maintaining law and order in the society. Laws that regulate firearms in this case, come in two forms. There are those that protect the use of firearms for self-defense, sport and hunting, and those that restrict the access to, and/or use of firearms. There has been a great devotion

It is estimated that there are as many guns as there are people (approximately 310.000.000 guns” in the US, which are held by civilians, gun shop owners,

In America today, we contain an estimated 270 million firearms – approximately 90 guns for every 100 people (“Stronger Gun Control”). That makes us the country with the highest gun ownership rate per 100 residents (Facts & Statistics). Although the high amount of guns can be quite disturbing to some, the good news is that the majority of citizens use it safely; guns are used 80x more often to protect a life then to take a life (Facts & Statistics). Furthermore, women use a gun to defend against sexual abuse 200,000 times a year (Facts & Statistics). As you can see, data supports that the right to bear arms adds to our individual

cited for demanding unlimited access to firearms, but according to the data provided in this paper, there is only a small chance that privately owned guns will be used in a situation against a robber, intruder, or a criminal. Firearms that are legally purchased by civilians will most likely be used by criminals and will leave innocent citizens injured. Also, supporters of gun rights believe that ‘the right to keep and bear arms” is a guaranteed right to all citizens of the United States and cann

The debate over gun control is often perceived to be to control reduce crime. The politicians use it as fodder for the emotional voter. Regardless of your view on gun control guns will be a fact of life in American. The US contains roughly 270 million of the world’s estimated 875 million privately owned guns (McInnis, 2007). All agree we must find away

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The incidents of gun violence can be diminished by removing the focus on gun control and enacting more laws to regulate ammunition. Using the tremendous amount of available new technology can be a huge first step in the process. Due to the lack of current laws to regulate ammunition the safety of American citizens is very questionable. Additionally, ensuring that human rights are not violated in the process of regulation. For these reasons, one can assume the dangers assigned to gun violence will subside with the enactment of

The second legislative measure that the United States Government should take is limiting even banning the sales of military – style assault weapons that have high capacity ammo. Assault weapon allows a shooter pull the trigger of a gun more quickly and accurately so that it can discharge all ammo in a short period of time. The purpose of an assault weapon is killing a large number of people during wars. Namely, sportive activities like hunting or defense of personal security and possessions cannot be a reason to buy or bear high capacity guns. When looking at the mass killing incidents that taken place in the United States, high capacity weapons’ role can be seen like in the example of Sandy Hook Elementary School slaughter. If sales of assault

Enforcing laws on prohibited gun buyers, is one of the meaningful actions the US-congress should take to reduce future mass shooting. Under current federal law, it is illegal for many categories of people to own guns. Among those owner are: Anyone who is under a constrain order of harassing, stalking, or threatening an intimate partner, and anyone who is a runaway from justice. The duty imposed on others not to sell firearms to prohibited people is weak and easily evaded. In addition, most gun dealers wish to sell lawful owners, most-but not all. In 1995, a researcher analyzed government tracing data and discovered that 1% of gun dealers sold 57% of the weapons found at crime scenes. Moreover, the US-congress should stop gun dealers from selling

Gun control or Gun freedom has been an important debate in the American history. The proponents of Gun freedom use the 2nd amendment to indicate how the constitution protects the right of every citizen to own a gun. The opponents on the other hand question this interpretation of the 2nd amendment or call for a change in constitution if that is what it takes to make American societies safer. This group believes that this interpretation used by pro-guns lobbies has been taken out of context and is allowing huge industrial groups to benefit from the sales of arms at the expense of peaceful societies.

Gun control in the United States has been a major debate for hundreds of year. Many people believe that guns should be highly regulated while others believe that anyone should have the ability to own one. Each side has a plausible argument. Throughout this essay it will be show how not having gun control can increase violence and death rates, the right for everyone to own a gun is not guaranteed by the Second Amendment, and how over usage of guns has played a role in the diminishing populations of animals.

Studies by researchers at Harvard and Northeastern universities have shown that American citizens own an estimated 265 million firearms; equivalent to more than one per adult citizen (Jervis). This introduces the topic that will be discussed in this paper; one that has become more and more prevalent over the years, private firearm ownership. This is a heavily debated topic that brings people with all different views, interests, and opinions together to discuss in further detail. This issue is often debated in many different directions and becomes more of an interest as crime rates rise and large-scale crimes increase. While discussing this current national issue one must also take into consideration things such as the constitution and constitutional principles.