Posted: 9/23/2013 4:32:00 PM EDT
I am writing an argumentative paper on gun control for my class. Could y'all give me some interesting articles (that unfortunately also represent the left side's argument) on this subject. I'm sure opinions will come out within the first three posts so they are welcome as well. Please try and stick to articles for the most part though 
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Those who forget the past are doomed to repet it.
http://www.davekopel.org/2A/LawRev/american-revolution-against-british-gun-control.html |
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I am writing an argumentative paper on gun control for my class. Could y'all give me some interesting articles (that unfortunately also represent the left side's argument) on this subject. I'm sure opinions will come out within the first three posts so they are welcome as well. Please try and stick to articles for the most part though google 'violent crime in england'. this will support both sides of the argument. less people are killed by guns in England than the US. you are also 4 times more likely to be beaten to death or raped in England than the US. |
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google 'violent crime in england'. this will support both sides of the argument. less people are killed by guns in England than the US. you are also 4 times more likely to be beaten to death or raped in England than the US. Quoted:
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I am writing an argumentative paper on gun control for my class. Could y'all give me some interesting articles (that unfortunately also represent the left side's argument) on this subject. I'm sure opinions will come out within the first three posts so they are welcome as well. Please try and stick to articles for the most part though google 'violent crime in england'. this will support both sides of the argument. less people are killed by guns in England than the US. you are also 4 times more likely to be beaten to death or raped in England than the US. Exactly. Looking at death by gun is not accurate. It does not accurately gauge a persons desire to kill another person. Look at death by violence and then compare those numbers when you consider things like hammers, baseball bats and knives. England's numbers for those things are much higher than ours. Then make the argument that based on the amount of training it takes to be proficient with said items, removing guns from the hands of law abiding citizens actually increases violent death rates per capita. |
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http://larrycorreia.wordpress.com/2012/12/20/an-opinion-on-gun-control/
I recommend reading that. The author brings up some pretty good arguments about gun control. My fav part from it is this lil blurb: And here is the nail in the coffin for Gun Free Zones. Over the last fifty years, with only one single exception (Gabby Giffords), every single mass shooting event with more than four casualties has taken place in a place where guns were supposedly not allowed. But there's lots more in the article than just that. |
. Should be a cake walk then!
| I always liked debate class. You don't truly know your own argument until you can remove emotions and successfully argue from the other side, and I don't mean strawman arguments. If you can successfully argue for the other side of an issue you will absolutely smoke yoru oponent when you argue on the side you truly believe in. |
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Exactly. Looking at death by gun is not accurate. It does not accurately gauge a persons desire to kill another person. Look at death by violence and then compare those numbers when you consider things like hammers, baseball bats and knives. England's numbers for those things are much higher than ours. Then make the argument that based on the amount of training it takes to be proficient with said items, removing guns from the hands of law abiding citizens actually increases violent death rates per capita. Quoted:
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I am writing an argumentative paper on gun control for my class. Could y'all give me some interesting articles (that unfortunately also represent the left side's argument) on this subject. I'm sure opinions will come out within the first three posts so they are welcome as well. Please try and stick to articles for the most part though google 'violent crime in england'. this will support both sides of the argument. less people are killed by guns in England than the US. you are also 4 times more likely to be beaten to death or raped in England than the US. Exactly. Looking at death by gun is not accurate. It does not accurately gauge a persons desire to kill another person. Look at death by violence and then compare those numbers when you consider things like hammers, baseball bats and knives. England's numbers for those things are much higher than ours. Then make the argument that based on the amount of training it takes to be proficient with said items, removing guns from the hands of law abiding citizens actually increases violent death rates per capita. This. So much this. I usually get drunk and check out random aspects of this argument and the violent crime rate in the UK is unique in that the aggregate number of violent crime in that Country exceeds ours as well as the rate per capita. Gun violence is just a smoke screen for the real issue. The real issue is all violent crime, or all crime for that matter. I think in 2012 we had something like 1.2 million where as they had 2.3 million incidents. My numbers might be a little off, it's been awhile since I last looked it up. Google UK Home office of Statistics. |