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    invite reporters to a news conference for a mandatory announcement. That announcement could be the same over exaggerated economic idea that has been discussed plenty of times. These conferences are to get you there to cover the candidate. Senator Trent Lott, was on his way of becoming majority leader of the U.S Senate. In 2002 of December, Sen. Lott’s downfall began when an ABC News

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    I usually spend my Friday nights in my dorm room catching up on some homework. This weekend I decided to take a day off to go and enjoy a great weekend. I was invited to the Black and Gold Masquerade Ball that was held in the Trent Lott Center. It was a very nice environment. The place was dark with some nice lights that were all in the top of the ceiling and around the edges of the walls. There was a table with a gorgeous center piece on it that had a lot of different colors, and different kinds

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    On the evening of Friday, 13 November 2015, a massacre including of public mass shootings and suicide bombings occurred in the capital of France, Paris. The attackers killed 130 people and wounded 368 serious injuries. Just 10 months previous, on January 7, 2015 two terrorists attacked Charlie Hebdo, an office of a Parisian satirical magazine. They killed eleven and wounded eleven people. During the attacks in Paris, no one victim was armed. They didn’t have any chance to defense for themselves.

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    Campus Shootings Essay

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    College Campuses in the Line of Sight We all hear about mass shooting where a number of people are killed and we pray that we are never caught in a situation like the one at Virginia Tech or Oikos University. But the likelihood that it happens at your school, your kids school, or your friends school is at an all time high. From 2000 to 2010 nearly 70 people were killed in college campus shootings in the United States. This number more than doubles the number of killing from the 25 years prior to

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    Concealed carry and college campuses are two major topics currently in the media, yet these two topics are rarely used in unison, until now. The topic of whether or not concealed carry should be allowed on college campuses is a now mainstream debate with multiple views and numerous differentiating opinions. Many of the general public question if campus police is capable enough to protect a university’s enormous student body? Another commonly discussed issue is if concealed handguns actually do deter

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    Are young adults in college capable of carrying an armed weapon responsibly? This debate about whether guns should be allowed on college campuses or not is commonly discussed and a huge concern mainly because education is important, not only to the students but also to the parents who are college graduates, and the presence of guns could potentially affect the way education is taught and learned. With that being said, there are many different sides to this issue and some include: casualties and shooting

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    quite often then a concealed handgun would come in handy. Places like these should be letting people carry concealed handguns because of the crimes. Carrying a concealed handgun will help protect you and your loved ones in serious situations. John Lott Jr. calculated that 1,570 murders, 4,177 rapes, 60,000 aggravated assaults, and 12,000 robberies could have been prevented

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    S.B. 11 As of this present day, concealed handguns are now allowed to be carried anywhere on all Texas public universities. This shocking dispensation, from earlier prohibiting regulations, is now enforced by the new law in the state of Texas. This law is known as S.B. 11 or Senate Bill 11. For those of you who don’t know how a bill becomes a law, it’s a long, crazy process. The fact that this bill made it through every step of it is an insane thought that questions, how? Let’s start by going through

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    Guns And Gun Control

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    firearm because they need to be able to defend themselves. Also, having a concealed weapon deters criminal activity. For instance, according to economist and political commentator, John R. Lott Jr. claimed that states that issued a concealed carry laws saw a decline in murders and other malicious crimes. PhD. Lott considered that 1,570 murders, 4,177 rapes, 60,000 aggravated assaults, and 12,000 robberies could have been prevented between 1977 and 1992 if concealed carry had been legal in every US

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    Concealed handguns are becoming an increasingly controversial topic in United States society as more mass-shootings, and even domesticated violence issues continue to occur. Citizens are torn between the use of a gun for themselves and their family’s protection, as well as the fact that ill-minded people may take advantage of the legalization and further increase violence at many societal levels. The thing these people lack to see is the fact that legal carriers have two main objectives, protection

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