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Gun Control:an overview

Point: Controlling Gun Violence is more important that controlling Guns.

Counterpoint: Gun Control Saves Lives

·The underlying issues that are being debated in these reading are

·The true definition to the second amendment

·What does “well regulated militia” mean

·Weather there should be more legislation on Gun Control or less

·Will gun Control actually reduce the crime rates and violence

·The “stand your ground” bills

·provides citizens to protect themselves using deadly force

·Would Government regulations solve the gun violence problem

·should we abolish the Second Amendment to reduce gun violence?

·Guns are not the issue it is the the intentions that people are using them for

·Gun regulation is the best way to reduce gun violence

·Supporters of stricter gun controls view on possible advantages in favor of supporting this issue

· it will decrease violence

·less accidental Shootings

·less suicide

·less strain on US economy and health system

·Those in opposition believe some of the disadvantages are as fallows

·Believes that it is taking a form of self defense away from the citizens

·Puts unfair burdens on manufactures

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·Takes away our ability to hunt

·Takes away our civil rights as American citizens

·Fallacies of reasoning that emerge from the debate

·Gun control is the wrong debate

·There is no need to own a gun that is made to kill as many people as possible

·The alternative policies and programs that have been developed

·The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence

·organization trying to get more legislation on guns

·National Firearms Act and the Federal Firearms Act

·Banned machine guns, imposed taxes on gun sales, and regulated certain sales and shipments of guns

·Gun Control act of 1968

·Outlawed mail order of guns

·Firearm Owners Protection Act of 1986

·covers the broad regulations in the firearm industry, prohibition of the sale of guns to certain people

like drug users, those with a criminal record or a history of mental disorders.

·The implications that the debate has for average families in society are

·Less able to protect themselves in their homes from intruders

·If guns are taken away how will people protect themselves from a tyrant government

Works Cited Page MLA

Lee, M.Stingl, Alexander. "Gun Control: An Overview." Points Of View: Gun Control (2013):

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