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adyanada

U.S. gun violence: The story in graphics - CNN.com - 0 views

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    This article basically provides facts and statistics of gun violence throughout the years. It breaks down the different gun violence over the years. The amount of people who own guns today continue to increase dramatically, especially due the recent mass shootings.
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    Allegedly Japan, as a country, has unified their gun control. You would have to pass competency tests for mental stability as well as physical competency tests to qualify for a gun license, and even then the Japanese government has a hold of firearm production which can limit the output of firearms.
charmayne1031

Why Gun Control Can't Eliminate Gun Violence - 0 views

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    Illegal gun trafficking and poor background checks are what American's who want to "ban" our second amendment should be looking into. There has been a great deal of public shootings and many have blamed the guns for doing the killing. When in fact, all guns that are involved in these shooting and many crimes, are illegal, or not registered.
adam flores

Maze of Gun Laws in U.S. Hurts Gun Control Efforts - 0 views

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    Gun laws across the United States are not as pronounced as many people would like them to be, especially federally. Communites are looking for a federal standard.
adam flores

Gun rights mark Empire State's upstate, downstate divide - 0 views

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    New York's recently enacted gun law have come under scrutiny and based off of emotion, and not facts. It is also stated in the article that gun laws have no affect on curbing violence.
Maurice Cooper

What the U.S. can learn from Brazil's epidemic of gun violence - 0 views

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    the article makes a comparison of the high death rate due to guns in Brazil and how they are similar to the U.S. The Brazilian government in 2003 passed a gun law that brought death by gun from 40000 to 34000 in one year. This is suggesting that the U.S. should follow suit.
Ben Blessington

Arizona gun rights groups: teachers should be trained to carry - 0 views

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    Arizona gun rights groups advocate that teachers should be armed in classrooms. Training should be available for teachers to be able to use guns to protect children. These gun rights groups claim that the opposition to the idea is ignorant about guns in general.
Ben Blessington

Gun Facts - Your Guide to Debunking Gun Control Myths - 1 views

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    This site offers a PDF of exposed myths in regards to gun control. The guide is meant for the purposes of people interested in and honest debate about gun control issues. The e-book that this site offers is arranged in chapters centered on different gun control topics like assault weapons, ballistic finger printing and firearm availability. A good source journalists, politicians and activists can utilize easily.
Charles Manning

Section 7: Three Common Gun Control Myths - 0 views

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    Here is a website about the freedom to bear arms and it has three links to three common myths about gun control. Namely, Three Myths: #1: A Gun In The Home Means You Are Three Times More Likely To Be Killed #2: Children Gun Deaths Are At Epidemic Proportions #3: Gun Control Has Reduced The Crime Rates In Other Countries Each of these is a great article talking about each myth.
Madeline Holt

Administration announces new gun control measures, targets military surplus imports - 0 views

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    This article discusses new gun control measures that have been signed into effect. It discusses the delay in legislation approval by Congress and President Obama taking action to get measures I place. Opinions of the NRA and other sources are provided.
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    I feel a lot of deja vu reading this article.It's the same old song and dance and none of them have learned that as United States citizens, we like our guns; and we will not be separated from them. Criminals do not follow laws, more gun control is useless without reinforcing the statutes already in place.
Denisse Rodriguez

GUN CONTROL CONFLICTS - 0 views

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    Guns let a weak person think he/she is stronger. Guns change how people think about killing. Although, gun control may not prevent all those deaths.
nadersalama

Live Updates: What the President is Doing to Keep Guns Out of the Wrong Hands | whiteho... - 0 views

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    Actions the president is taking to keep guns out of the wrong hands. One way of doing this is by doing background checks and making sure that guns are not being sold to criminals.
claydry1

Gun Control - ProCon.org - 0 views

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    Pros and Cons for gun control
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    In this article it gives both pros and cons of enacting the gun laws. Tells you both aspects of how certain situations can be reduce for example suicide. Some people believe if the government would have a stricter laws for gun control. Less harm of hurting others or yourself can have a big role. People who don't agree with gun control believes if their are more background checks its invading their privacy.
Taylor McGrew

Should America Adopt the Gun Controls of Other Democracies? - 1 views

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    Author D B Kopel argues that gun control in countries like Great Britain, Australia, Switzerland, Japan, New Zealand, Canada, and Jamaica is not the reason for their low crime rate. In fact he states that their gun control law is the cause for more burglaries and that gun registration has been proven in these countries to be valueless in solving or preventing crimes.
adyanada

Americans are much more likely to be killed by guns than people in other countries | Th... - 1 views

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    A person is much, much more likely to be killed by a gun in the United States than in any of these other countries, and it isn't remotely close. The gun homicide rate in the United States was more than 25 times higher than in other high-income countries, according to a new study in the American Journal of Medicine that examined death rates per 100,000 people.
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    I do agree with the fact that people in america are more likely to be killed due to gun violence. But i think it is because our country is more privileged when it comes to even having access to them.
stromgrend

Mike Rowe Talks About Why Control Won't Work - 0 views

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    Mike Rowe talks about what would actually happen if heavier gun control laws were laid down. He talks about how he thinks a heavier background check would not do much to a criminal purchasing a gun illegally. He says then that if we cannot control the government, why would we want to make it bigger by handing over our guns.
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    We do need stronger gun control laws, but either way I feel as if anyone now a days think its okay to have self defense as in automatically killing someone. Self defense is a mechanism as to which keeps oneself safe, as well as stopping the offender in a way that does not kill them, only stops; by saying that does not mean "go kill them" and that is what most people believe now a days is what self defense is, just by killing another individual.
Ellexis Zieska

Gun Law debate - 0 views

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    This is about making the new gun laws but two people debating on weather or not they should be new laws or if they should just have stronger enforcement and better background checks.
adam flores

Fordham University professor: Gun rights activists have it all wrong - 0 views

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    Gun activist that feel guns should have aban against them have it alll wrong, according to a University Professor. The debate should be about controlling access to firearms, rather than eliminating them and using market forces to drive up the price of weapons on the black market.
Maurice Cooper

Push For Futuristic Guns Builds On Embattled Past - 0 views

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    The future of guns might have technology that would prevent them from firing if ever come in contact with the wrong person. Gun advocators feels this would be unconstitutional.
adam flores

Thousands Call for more gun control laws - 0 views

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    Many gathered in Washington D.C. to protest against many of the nations gun control laws. These types of protests have become increasingly popular due to the number of tragic shootings in the recent year.
Heather Thomason

Obama Calls for sweeping new gun laws - 0 views

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    This article discussed President Obama agenda to update the current gun laws. With recent episodes of mass violence sweeping this country president Obama says something has to be done. It also talks about Obama's proposal to aid in gun control.
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