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Friday, November 17, 2006
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
1st Draft of Gun Rights
Since the second amendment of the United States Constitution is reviewed, Americans have carried their own guns. It is based on democratic principle and as vital to the lives and liberty of modern Americans as it was in frontier times. On the other hand, it also shows side effects when people abuse the assault weapons; there are still many cases to think over whether people bear the firearm or not.
The widespread concern for a gun is about firearm accidents that come up on TV frequently. It looks definitely horroble and makes feel nervous. To address this problem, people think that gun is banned in the U.S.A for good. However, in my opinion, the major problem cames from not possesson of gun but the negative influence of media, like action movies and some TV programs, which contain lots of violence and excessive description of crime. As long as people are exposed to certain circumstances, it is unavoidable to make people a dangerous copycat. Therefore, media should consider carefully how they effect on the pubic.
In addition,how to deal with gun is also important to eliminate incident. People have to make sure that gun becomes destructive power of weapon in case of misuse. Besides, process to have gun should be more difficult and background checks also should be much stricter.
From the original purpose of gun rights, gun has to be used in self-defence. In 1871 National Rifle Associaton(NRA) was oranized to motivate Americans to be good at marksmanship.It points out that personal protection is important enough in the U.S.A. According to the related studies, firearms are used more than 2 million times a year for crime prevention.
Gun control is not a good idea to diminish the crime and might happen the other problem. In the U.S.A gun is one of the god-given rights. Therefore people should think over how should they do to claim a right.
Sunday, November 05, 2006
Some links to articles

Here is a relatively brief overview of the issue Wikipedia on Gun Control
Here is an argument for Gun control A Case for Gun Control
Here is another perspective Gun Control vs. Gun Rights
cases
Studies indicate that firearms are used more than 2 million times a year for personal protection, and that the presence of a firearm, without a shot being fired, prevents crime in many instances. Shooting usually can be justified only where crime constitutes an immediate, imminent threat to life, limb, or, in some cases, property.
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