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for my project.
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I chose to do my paper on stricter gun laws,
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and I'm doing this with a concentration on the Parkland
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shooting that took place in Florida of 2018.
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Thank you.
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So I want to start this off by discussing why
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stricter gun laws.
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Currently, in the United States, there is a push for
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stricter laws concerning gun.
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This is because more than 342,000 people were killed from
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2000 and 8 to 2017.
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Buy a gun.
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Stricter gun laws will prevent thousands of deaths caused by
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guns, including external deaths, suicides and gun violence.
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The term gun control is often thrown around with the
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word stricter gun laws.
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Gun control refers to any type of regulation that prevents
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the purchase of specific guns who can own them, who
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can sell them.
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So when talking about strict making gun laws stricter, they
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want to put a emphasis on who can buy them.
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How can they be bought so forth?
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There are many illegal sellers in the United States selling
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guns. There are many different laws bearing from state to
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state that concern the purchases of guns.
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There is no federal law on the purchase of Guns.
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One state You can maybe have to take a mental
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health background check fee of a certain age do all
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this extensive background, whereas another is.
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You might just have to be 18 years old and
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with no criminal record types of deaths caused by guns
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When discussing death by guns.
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There are three major categories that I'm going to be
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discussing. There's accidents, shootings, suicides and gun violence.
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All three categories listed above have been far too often
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in the United States, and the citizens feel in making
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gun laws more strict will help decrease their statistics.
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So these three reasons are the main reasons that people
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are fighting for more gun control and why they feel
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the wall should be stricter.
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So accident shootings are account for many of the deaths
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in United States, many which are Children.
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In a study that took place in October of this
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year, studies found that over 220 Children have been involved
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in these shootings and 90 of them have actually died
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from them.
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Those infrastructure laws want laws to ensure that one gun
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is only in the house and they want laws regulating
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house to store guns in homes with Children.
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Many purchase guns for the use of self defense, which
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I will get into later and feel that when they
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have a family, they need a source of self defense
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like a gun.
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That being said, many feel that there should be regulations
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through state law that ensure that the gun is out
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of place and out of mind from a child and
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all Children in the house, as well as what type
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of gun should be allowed to be purchased.
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Because there are many different categories of guns, many feel
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that weapons such as those like a K 47 that
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are modeled after military type warfare should not be purchased
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by civilians, especially those who are going to store the
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gun with younger family members, such as Children.
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Next, we have suicides.
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Suicides are the number one category of deaths done by
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guns. Pro gun control parties fight for mental health background
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checks. This could increase this number.
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Background checks would decrease the amount of guns sold to
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those that are not mentally sound.
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Here we have some statistics.
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We have 23,854 suicides by gun in just 2017 alone.
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We also have three million, which is the number of
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mental health records that have been reported to the states
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using these background checks.
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There has been about several states I know Connecticut being
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one of them that had begin to use mental health
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checks prior to gotten purchasing, and over three million have
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been given to the FBI and organizations like them in
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result of people not being sound enough or if there
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are sound to buy a gun.
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Each year there is an estimated 19,000 deaths by suicides.
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I think suicides by guns a year.
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Many feel that with mental health background checks, those who
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are looking to use a gun put with the purchase
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with the purpose off suicide that the mental health checks
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can help them, they can be alerted that they need
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help and the state will help find them help.
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Last is gun violence from homicides to mass shootings.
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The U.
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S is having issues with all of the above.
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Mass shootings have been on the rise within the past
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few years.
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Many believe this is due to how easy it is
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in some states to purchase a lethal gun.
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One person is killed by gun every 15 minutes in
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the United States, using the statistic that means of roughly
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around 96 people die a day.
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Bye Gun violence.
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On February 14 2018, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in
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Parkland, Florida, experienced a mass school shooting.
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Former student Nicolas Cruz had entered the building and killed
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17 people entering 17 more.
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Here I have pictured the 17 people who lost their
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lives that day from gun violence in a public school.
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Nicholas was 19 at the time.
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He had been expelled from the high school for behavioral
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issues, the gun he had used with a Smith and
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Wesson, M and P, a semi automatic rifle.
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He bought the gun legally.
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Florida gun laws at the time require a background check
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in eight of 18 plus to purchase the gun.
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Nicholas was mentally ill and pro gun control used.
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Okay, those on the pro gun control side used him
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as an example of why mental health screenings are needed.
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By using the proper mental health screening and background check,
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they could tell that Nicholas was not in the right
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state of mind and had bad intentions of purchasing the
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gun. Now I'm going to be going into the argument
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for against gun control.
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The discussion on whether or not stricter gun laws is
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very controversial, and many feel strongly on the four or
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against side now to see the against set point.
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One fear of gun control is that is, of the
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annulment of the Second Amendment, the right to bear arms.
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The counter to this is that stricter gun laws do
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not aim to ban all guns on Lee those meant
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for military uses like a K 47 something.
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I've noticed that when people are very against stricter gun
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laws and gun control, they feel that we're trying to
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take away the use of guns from the American people,
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which I believe is not the case.
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We just once those who are using guns to have
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purchased them legally and to have gone through an extensive
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background check on it because there are so many accidental
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shootings, Matt mass shootings that just could have been avoided
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if the gun was purchased bye, a person in a
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good headspace with good intentions of saying just self defense
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and keeping it in their house safely with that being
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said, another counterpoint is that many feel guns are necessary
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for self defense.
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This is true.
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Guns can offer safety again.
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Stricter gun laws on Lee want to prohibit the purchase
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of certain guns to certain people.
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Guns for self defense could still be purchased.
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Many who are on the side of gun control have
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an issue with the idea of American people buying crazy
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military based guns guns that can shoot off 100 or
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not hundreds but tens of bullets and ammunition a minute
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is not the types of guns that we, as American
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people, should be purchasing.
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That's not the type we need for self defense.
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Just like a typical handgun can offer self defense.
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If that's what you feel is necessary, that's what makes
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you comfortable and for hunting in that aspect.
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Again. A military type weapons isn't necessary for hunting.
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And if you are, just if you just want a
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gun for hunting, just the background check in the mental
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health check.
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I personally do not think that is that big of
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an issue.
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I don't think it's that much more of a hassle.
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A. So long as you're mentally sound and have good
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intentions of using the gun.
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You know, not using it for bad intentions.
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I have no problem with it.
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That is my presentation.
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Here. We have all the references I have used.
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Thank you so much and have a good rest of
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your