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I like what you said luke

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After the recent heartbreaking mass shootings, the gun control debate has reached its boiling point.

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I like what you said Brayden.

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I like what you said Jacob

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Jacob Rowe: It’s a familiar narrative by now: a mass shooting shocks the nation, gun control proponents stand on their soapboxes, pro-Second Amendment groups cry about politicizing the tragedy, and nothing seems to really happen.

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Each year, approximately 30,000 Americans are killed with firearms. Suicides claim 15,000 to 16,000 lives, homicides account for 12,000 more, and gun accidents add another 2,000. Gun-related injuries, whether intentional or accidental, are inflicted upon 40,000 Americans every year. Meanwhile, in any given year, there are up to one million crimes committed involving guns

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It is possible that if the teachers that were involved in these school shootings had guns, they could have prevented the many fatalities that occurred!

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The United States has 88.8 guns per 100 people, or about 270,000,000 guns, which is the highest total and per capita number in the world. 22% of Americans own one or more guns (35% of men and 12% of women).

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connor roberts-ON DECEMBER 14, 2012, 20-YEAR OLD ADAM LANZA broke into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT, killing 20 children and six adults--and then himself--after first slaying his mother Nancy Lanza in their home. He used a .223 caliber Bushmaster XM-15 semi-automatic rifle in the killing spree, but also had on him a 10mm Glock 20 SF handgun and a 9mm SIG Sauer handgun. He had a shotgun in his car, and at home police found a .45 Henry repeating rifle, a .30 Enfield rifle, and a .22 Marlin rifle, the latter of which he used to shoot his mother in the head four times.

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Kennedy G-- The United States has 88.8 guns per 100 people, or about 270,000,000 guns, which is the highest total and per capital number in the world. 22% of Americans own one or more guns (35% of men and 12% of women). America's pervasive gun culture stems in part from its colonial history, revolutionary roots, frontier expansion, and the Second Amendment, which states: "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

Proponents of more gun control laws state that the Second Amendment was intended for militias; that gun violence would be reduced; that gun restrictions have always existed; and that a majority of Americans, including gun owners, support new gun restrictions.

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at least 50% of the 62 mass shootings between 1982 and 2012. [7] When high-capacity magazines

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Gabriel- The last two years have challenged the arguments of those on both sides of the gun control debate. With horrific and numerous school shootings, and cities such as Chicago, where 10 gun deaths in any given weekend are common, both sides agree that something must be done about gun violence. However, as the country approaches 50% in favor of stricter gun control, a majority of the nation is still skeptical about the efficacy of gun control.

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Lately, it's been difficult to turn on any news station without witnessing a tragedy. Hurricanes, earthquakes and--perhaps, most devastatingly--mass shootings. Although innocent people die in all three of these situations, I think that mass shootings are the greatest tragedies of them all. They are not acts of God or Mother Nature, they are senseless murders.

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In the wake of so many mass shootings, it should come to no surprise that the discussion of whether or not guns should be banned arises once more. There are an abundance of sound arguments on both sides of the spectrum that it's hard sometimes to blatantly stand for one over the other. So, in the name of being open-minded, here are two pros and cons for both sides of the argument.

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There are many things we ask of teachers and students. In New York, we are in the middle of a fight about teacher evaluations—the metrics used, their weight in promotion and firing. Since the shooting in Sandy Hook, there has been talk about not only what it means to stand in front of a class but what it’s like to keep six-year-olds silent in a closet with a gunman steps away, or, like Victoria Soto, a teacher laid to rest Wednesday, to die trying to protect them. Paul Simon sang “Sounds of Silence” at Vicki’s funeral—his sister-in-law knew the Soto family; Derek Jeter called her mother, because he’d heard she was a Yankees fan. Those are fitting tributes. What is confounding, though, is the idea, put forward by gun advocates, that this all would have been better if only Soto and her colleagues had been carrying guns, too—if they had served as field officers in some sort of counterattack.

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Kenna: Once again we have been witness to a mass shooting, this time in Orlando, Florida with horrible results. Unfortunately, this type of incident is becoming all too familiar. The reasons for these shootings are based on a host of reasons. However, they all do have a common denominator: Guns, guns of every description from automatic pistols to rifles and in particular, the use of so-called “assault weapons.”

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Once again we have been witness to a mass shooting, this time in Orlando, Florida with horrible results. Unfortunately, this type of incident is becoming all too familiar. The reasons for these shootings are based on a host of reasons. However, they all do have a common denominator: Guns, guns of every description from automatic pistols to rifles and in particular, the use of so-called “assault weapons.”

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Sophia Atherton: There are two certainties following nearly every mass shooting event: Cable news television will have its programming schedule set for the next 72 hours, and a significant number of gun control advocates will reveal they lack even a basic understanding of the items they wish to regulate.

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Luke Colebank-In December 2012, a 20-year-old man wearing combat gear and armed with pistols and a semi-automatic rifle forced his way into a school in Newtown, Connecticut, and killed 26 people, including 20 elementary school students [source: Barron]. That event followed two other mass killings in 2012 — a July attack on an Aurora, Colorado, movie theater in which a gunman killed 12 people and wounded 58 more, and an August assault on a Sikh temple in Milwaukee in which six worshippers were shot to death and thre others wounded [source: Krouse].

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Brooklyn- This week at least 59 people were killed and over 500 injured in the deadliest mass shooting in American history. Naturally, the gun control debate — the same one we have been having for decades — has ramped up again, and opponents are using redundant, deeply flawed arguments against even modest proposals like more background checks or a federal database to track gun sales.

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The history of mass shootings in the United States is one that tells a dark chapter. In 1873, a group of white citizens in Louisiana killed and hung up to 150 African-American citizens. In 1890, US soldiers took machine guns into a Lakota village and killed 200 men, women, and children. In 1921, white citizens in Tulsa set African-American neighborhoods on fire and then shot at those who fled, killing upwards of 300 people.

It’s long overdue to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of gun control in a meaningful way. Here are some of the key points to think about.

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It's an all-too-familiar pattern in American politics: In the wake of mass shootings, support for stricter gun laws spikes temporarily. But that shift in public opinion largely fades over time, and Congress doesn't pass anything.

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Is it necessary for school teachers to walk around with a gun

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In the wake of an elementary school shooting in Newtown, Conn., last year, South Dakota has decided to try to deter gun violence in its schools by allowing teachers to pack heat. Gov. Dennis Daugaard signed the bill into law last week. Twenty-four other states are considering similar “school sentinel" bills this year, but South Dakota is the first to legalize it since the Newtown massacre.

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Like any subject that weaves its way round corpses, gun control discussions easily ignite the worst parts of us.

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With over 18 school shootings in the USA this year alone as well as the last month’s tragedy in Stoneman Douglas High School, the gun control debate is more heated than ever.

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jamie-  In the immediate aftermath of the shooting in a Parkland, Florida, high school that killed 17 people and injured more than a dozen others, pressure mounted for Congress to actually do something on guns — and Trump seemed enthusiastic about the idea

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Paul Hankins keeps a box of smooth, colorful river stones — he calls them “fidgets” — in his classroom for students to hold when they need to soothe their nerves.

The stones also have a different purpose, as do the billiard balls and the plank from the old gym floor. They can all be used as weapons in an emergency.

“Before we go to the corner where everybody gets invisible, grab one of those,” he tells his students at Silver Creek High School in Sellersburg, Ind. “We could cause one heck of a ruckus if we need to.”

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Kennedy G-- Something horrible happened at Sandy Hook Elementary. No one can accept this happening to children.
Now there are calls to "do something" and, in fact, something must be done. Solutions are not going to be found in the recycled grab bag of proposed restrictions on law-abiding gun owners.

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Brooklyn- The United States has 88.8 guns per 100 people, or about 270,000,000 guns, which is the highest total and per capita number in the world. 22% of Americans own one or more guns (35% of men and 12% of women).

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Yes, they should.. The very reason schools are targeted is because they are gun free zones. Shooters have no fear of retaliation or resistance when the first shots ring out. We have proven examples where a school shooter was thwarted; in Mississippi an assistant principal thwarted a shooter by retrieving a .45 caliber hand gun from his truck and a Virginia Tech type massacres was thwarted when a student at Appalachian retrieved his gun from his vehicle and subdued the shooter. We should stand for the seco

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The tragic massacre in Newtown, Conn. which killed 20 children and eight adults (including the shooter himself), many are calling for the United State to examine its gun control regulations. President Obama, who has seen by his count four large-scale shootings in his first term as president, suggested that his administration would take action towards more gun control. In his speech at a vigil in Newtown, he asked, "Are we prepared to say that such violence visited on our children year after year after year is somehow the price of our freedom?"

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A.J. Vande: Should teachers be armed with killing machines? Donald Trump has said so – and suggested that those that don't might be inviting attacks on themselves.

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Should public school teachers be allowed to carry guns to keep themselves and other students safe

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Catlin Conzelman: The question is simple. Should the United States raise gun control laws? But yet this simple yes or no question makes people think deeper. And of course, when people have to think, they want to speak. Which causes a lot of controversy between those who think differently.

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Chrsitiana: "Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror." If you are living in a country based off of gun laws from 1791 with people shooting AR-15 shots at innocent children, don't you see a problem there? Our country, America, needs stricter gun laws.

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Jamie-  With over 18 school shootings in the USA this year alone as well as the last month’s tragedy in Stoneman Douglas High School, the gun control debate is more heated than ever. While some Americans push for stricter gun laws, mostly focusing on semi-automatic rifles, the other camp proposes different solutions to the obvious problem. And since the complex and sensitive nature of the subject might be confusing for some, artist Alex Clark created an animation that explains the matter in a brilliant way: by using cats.

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A parable:

A village has been built in the deepest gully of a floodplain.

At regular intervals, flash floods wipe away houses, killing all inside. Less dramatic—but more lethal—is the steady toll as individual villagers slip and drown in the marshes around them.

After especially deadly events, the villagers solemnly discuss what they might do to protect themselves. Perhaps they might raise their homes on stilts? But a powerful faction among the villagers is always at hand to explain why these ideas won’t work. “No law can keep our village safe! The answer is that our people must learn to be better swimmers - and oh by the way, you said ‘stilts’ when the proper term is ‘piles,’ so why should anybody listen to you?”

So the argument rages, without result, year after year, decade after decade, fatalities mounting all the while. Nearby villages, built in the hills, marvel that the gully-dwellers persist in their seemingly reckless way of life. But the gully-dwellers counter that they are following the wishes of their Founders, whose decisions two centuries ago must always be upheld by their descendants.

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This week at least 59 people were killed and over 500 injured in the deadliest mass shooting in American history. Naturally, the gun control debate — the same one we have been having for decades — has ramped up again, and opponents are using redundant, deeply flawed arguments against even modest proposals like more background checks or a federal database to track gun sales.

Given the current composition of Congress and the over $60 million from the NRA that helped create it, the chances for rapid reform are slim. But that doesn’t mean that the debate should end. Shoddy arguments should be exposed and people who make them should be challenged. To that end, below are five of the most common arguments against gun control, and why those arguments are wrong.

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Jacob Rowe:      The United States has 88.8 guns per 100 people, or about 270,000,000 guns, which is the highest total and per capita number in the world. 22% of Americans own one or more guns (35% of men and 12% of women).

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Firearms were the 12th leading cause of all deaths, representing 1.3% of total deaths topping liver disease, hypertension, and Parkinson’s disease, as well as deaths from fires, drowning, and machinery accidents.

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Luke Colebank -It was 1934. Mobsters armed with fully automatic "Tommy guns" had left a trail of bloodstained sidewalks and pockmarked walls across the country, and the new president had narrowly escaped assassination the year before. It was time for action on gun control. And the National Rifle Association seemingly agreed.

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Gabriel- Like any subject that weaves its way round corpses, gun control discussions easily ignite the worst parts of us. Whether it’s descent into name-calling, insults, ad hominems and similar lazy, childish tactics, or a dismissal of anyone other than those on “our” side, attempts at objectivity are often scarce. However, many of us, including myself, are in the advantageous position of ignorance: it is advantageous, since it means we have no excuse not to encounter and contemplate the best arguments on both “sides” of the debate.

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Is this the moment when the politics of guns shifts?