gun control
It is a Friday afternoon in Charlesbay High School. Students are piling into the lunch lines awaiting hot pizza, fresh French fries and ice-cold sodas. As the students discuss what they are going to do after the football game and how their 1st hour test was, a gunshot is heard not far away. The students are ordered to stay low to the ground by school security guards. None of the students know what is happening outside the lunch lines. What is going on is a 17-year old frenetic boy who attends Charlesbay, got upset with a couple students. He was sick of hearing them call him "dumb" or "butterball" and pushing him around the hallways. Robby, we'll call him, took matters into his own hands and decided to do something about his bullies. The way Robby obtained his gun was by a friend, an older friend. This lethal weapon caused the death of 3 students and 5 injuries. What was just explained seems to be a typical storyline heard on the news daily.The debate over firearms has been polarized for too long. Gun law is a never-ending issue because there hardly is any true debate. Americans (and even gun owners) do support the governments efforts to make sure guns are less dangerous in violent hands, but that is the main problem-t
Andrew Murr, "Follow the Firearms" Newsweek 10 May 1999 34 C. The horrible massacre in Colorado shows just how gun control works in the real world-which is safe to say that is doesn't. Under the laws of Colorado, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were able to own rifles and shotguns, but were too young to buy them. They found a way though by having their 18-year-old friend Robyn Anderson buy the firearm and while buying them, he also picked up two shotguns and a 9mm-HiPoint carbine for their attack. They also were able to get a TEC-DC9 (Murr 34). Matt Bai, "Searching for Answers" Newsweek 10 May 1999 31:36 2. Enforce what's on the books. This encourages police and prosecutors to enforce federal gun laws. By following just 1 simple rule for 1 year: arresting someone for carrying a gun while in possession of drugs. In Richmond, police seized 512 guns and sent 215 violators to jail (Fineman 25). B. Additionally, guns injure thousands of children each year. Some experts believe that gun-related deaths/injuries could replace car crashes as the leading death for youths. So what can be done to protect kids and guns? (Rhetorical question) I. It is happening all over the country: kids are dying from guns. (Restatement) 1. Recently, some schools have created "peanut-free zones" in their cafeteria because of the tiny number of children who are highly allergic to peanut products. In 1999 major car manufacturers have installed inside-trunk latches on new cars because of the 11 children who died last year by suffocating in locked cars. They aren't looking at the 6,000 students who were suspended at school for carrying guns to school or the 1, 300 children aged 10-19 who committed suicide with firearms (Fineman 24). 2. Instead, the gun industry is making their products more and more lethal, instead of devoting their profits to the development of a childproof gun, and the industry is absolutely immune to the government intervention for their actions. D. Somebody of legal age sold this particular handgun to him or her, but that person could face prosecution. The sickening part is, their sentence could only be 2-6 years in prison. A light sentence with such a serious crime committed and the outcome of that crime of 15 dead. (Anecdote).
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Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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