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I believe that the ability to own a gun IS a right, but there are many who choose to take advantage of it and misuse it. Some respect guns as toys, but it is not guns who kill people. People kill people.

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I think there are very few situations where the risk is worth the reward regarding guns. I think most people have them as toys, and they aren't using them as a defensive precaution. However, I do believe everyone is entitled to safety and if having a gun makes them feel safer in their own home, then so be it.

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Cinco de Mayo is not Mexican Independence Day and is actually just a day to mark a battle where Mexican troops beat French soldiers.

The celebration is more American than Mexican and is largely uncelebrated in Mexico.

The main reason the holiday came about was due to Mexican-American laborors using it as a way to garner support for their cause.

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I don't think it is necessary to have all the guns that we have. I think there should be more mental screenings to own a gun. It is our right to have guns but I think that is to an extent. There is no need to have the crazy guns that can do more harm then good. I go back and forth on this because I think it would be best for guns to have A LOT more restrictions and made a lot harder to use but that is idealizing things and I know that that will probably never happen so I have to come to a good middle part just to make it safer.

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The criminal will have a gun weather it is leagle or not, and if others have guns they will no longer have the uper hand and so only an idiot would still try to commit a crime where they have a high risk of being shot before they even clear the holster good. i also think that it is our right to own guns and it can not be out dated or other rights can be out dated as well.

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Are there true tangible benefits of welfare? Are there ways in which the system can be improved? Is this system outdated or needed now more than ever?

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Are the dangers associated with owning guns worth the benefits that are claimed to come out of this right? Is gun ownership a real right or outdated?

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I agreed with your R1 response about government overreach. The only way we would have another Revolution is the government trying to completely control the people. This has not yet happened and that explains why we haven't had another revolution

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I liked the points that the other people made in their responses. Most of them I could understand especially of those who disagreed with me. I think though some of them were right but we're missing things that would prevent their thoughts from working out. I think that the ways we are given to protest the decisions of the government are good but largely ineffective. I don't see the utilization of them helping prevent a revolution. I believe that it could happen but wouldn't be a violent occurrence.

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"Nothing puts the dignity in personal dignity (or the freedom in personal freedom) like the self in self-rule."
- John Longenecker

This quote stood out to me because it truly does emphasize the fact that this is a country and government based on the people but yet not just in gun control are people limited but in many facets of life people don't have the rights they should. This just shows that this government has founding principles and they really have gone away because others want to worry about too much that they aren't or shouldn't be involved in.
"No law ever prevented a crime."
- Anonymous

Part of our assignment was to find a quote and be able to give an author but in this case this quote just stood out to me as the best one even though it didn't meet the criteria. As much as we like to think we live in a good world be don't and in the US we pass all these laws for many things especially crime but they rarely work. When it comes to crime the laws that were passed were passed knowing people were going to break them. This is a very reactionary method and it shows that this whole idea on relying on the police to protect us is overrated. The police aren't always there and most of the time arrive after the completion of a crime, which is yet another reactionary implementation in our society. The supreme court has also ruled that it is not the responsibility of the police to protect us.

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I chose this image to represent my topic because I feel that it really shows the overwhelming amount of guns owned by those in the US with a possibility of over 80 percent of the US citizens having a gun if this was evenly distributed. However this picture also shows the bias of those who are for gun control because most people that own a gun own more than one gun and 80 percent of the population don't own guns.

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http://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-murder-shootings-gun-control-nra-20140527-story.html

This article list all of the mass shootings in the U.S. In the past two years. This article has clear bias because it doesn't even address the opposite side and searched for facts that purely supported their argument. This article didn't look to how many crimes were deterred by the use of a gun. Also at the end of their argument they said that this can't be talked about politically because people have near religious embrace of this right. The funny part there is that the freedom to religion is a right and gun ownership is too so why is it okay to wholey accept and embrace one right but the other shouldn't be?

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http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/susan-milligan/2014/01/16/we-need-gun-control-to-stop-more-than-criminals

This article details how many murders that occur aren't by criminals but by more normal people than you would think. The bias in the article is apparent due to how when the situations are analyzed there is no thought going into the other side and the author fails to realize that violence would have occurred regardless and that yes guns didn't make it easier but people still would have committed a crime.

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I, personally, like where you are headed with this. Your point about the fact that there will be violence without guns is very true. I saw a quote a while ago, "Guns don't kill people. People kill people." But, why not at least try to make an EFFORT to prevent the taking of innocent lives? That is why these gun control lives are in effect. You had a lot of good points, but these laws are not in effect to limit the rights of the people. They are in effect to protect us from those in the nation who seek to do us harm. But, you did have quite a few good points. I do believe that the government should have less control over the people, but what cost does that come at, you know?

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I agree with your Positive 2 article. I felt like it pointed out reasons why guns are for the better good. The only thing that concerns me is people carrying guns in prohibited areas such as schools. That seems like it would cause more problems and also unsafe.

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http://www.thetimesnews.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/letters-to-the-editor-home/gun-control-is-wrong-on-so-many-levels-1.123784?page=1

This article has a clear bias towards not banning guns and for the protection of the right t own a gun. The main points that affirmed the right to own guns and that showed the bias were the language of the 2nd amendment and saying how the right shouldn't be taken away, how outlawing guns has been proven to cause crime rates to increase, how police almost always arrive after a crime has been committed which provides no protection during the crime, takes guns out of law abiding citizens hands and allows criminals to keep their guns, and how banning guns in certain areas prevents law abiding citizens from protecting themselves where as criminals aren't likely to start obeying laws when they see a sign in a park telling them they can't have their gun there. This article makes some good point that are logical and the bias is well represented by flaws in the oppositions arguements.

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http://listverse.com/2013/12/12/10-arguments-against-gun-control/

This positive reference 10 points based on a variety of points with a bias of wanting to show that regardless of Gun Control Laws there is still a constitutional amendment that states that we are allowed o posses weapons. The next main point of the website is that if a criminal wants to inflict harm or commit a crime then they will. Laws don't apply to criminals. The most interesting fact of this article that wasn't explicitly stated was that death and violence still occur even without guns and aren't the largest killers in societies. The UK and their murder rate has increased even though they have some of the toughest gun control laws. A key point of many of the articles was that if someone wants to do harm with a gun they will find a way so it is futile to try and convince people otherwise.

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Gun Rights is something that affects all Americans because it is a common agreement that it is given to us in the constitution. Gun Rights now are being criticized for their role in the increasing violence in our country. This has been a topic that has been around for a very long time and there have been swings and shifts of how the issue should be handled. This is something that is an issue all across the world not just here in the United States but yet we see ourselves in the middle of a heated debate over what should be done. The main issue that is around today concerning guns in America is the gun control that should or shouldn't be placed on them. The people who are against these laws cite that it is a right that is given to us by the federal government. The government already has several means of preventing certain people from legally buying a gun.

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Gun law in the United States - Wikipedia

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Gun laws of the United States are found in a number of federal statutes. These laws regulate the manufacture, trade, possession, transfer, record keeping, transport, and destruction of firearms, ammunition, and firearms accessories. They are enforced by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).