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I think that AR-15s should be banned. They are assault weapons, designed to kill people, and they have been in use since the Vietnam War. You don't stay that long in active-duty U.S. military service without some REAL good attributes to back you up. This weapon can all to easily be used to ruthlessly murder innocents. The AR-15 is semi-automatic, which means that it fires a bullet every time the trigger is pulled, and can carry large numbers of bullets. 30 bullets is a common number, and in at least one instance (The Aurora, Colorado shooting), it has carried as many as 100 bullets. (Info from of Rolling Stone Magazine.) These weapons can-and have-killed people. These weapons are very common. "In 2013, the National Shooting Sports Foundation estimated there are somewhere between 5 million and 8.2 million assault weapons in circulation." (Rolling Stone.) If we ban these weapons, the number and severity of these shootings will go down. Thus, I advocate for such banning action. We must ban these weapons!
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Elliot
5/3/2018 03:48:55 pm
Do you think they should ban them from the military as well? or are you suggesting just a civilian ban?
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Alexei
5/3/2018 03:49:47 pm
I was thinking a civilian ban.
Elliot
5/3/2018 03:53:14 pm
Agree. If the military want's do use them, well... that's their decision.
Bayan
5/3/2018 04:05:39 pm
I think that the military should only carry guns around when they need them. If not they are doing an unimportant job or not doing a job at all (definately then), they shouldn't carry a gun with them.
Bayan
5/3/2018 04:47:12 pm
Slowly. We cannot just ban them completely (I would if I could though, you are right). The government wouldn't say yes to that. It would need to happen slowly. No armed citizens, then later on not many armed police, etc.
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Bayan
5/3/2018 04:48:11 pm
I was talking about Alexei's first comment.
Ms. C
5/3/2018 05:00:19 pm
That is a valid point. We have to meet in the middle of we want change to happen and it will take time. Starting with a ban on assault rifles and magazines, I think many smart gun owners would hear. It would take their right away to own guns, just restrict these weapons to only the people who truly need them (military). It would have to be done in phases with a government/military buy back program. Gun owners would need incentive to participate.
Maggie
5/3/2018 03:43:01 pm
After reading this article what I really took into account is that while reading this article for me it was hard to process what the wording said so I asked Alexei about the over view of it and when he explained it to me I was confused. Not confused because the way he explained but what the article was trying to tell the readers. I, personally, would not work for someone who you cannot have guns around them but they give speech's about how everyone should be armed with guns. I don't know about you but seems unreasonable because guns, no matter what, should not be in anyone's contact unless you need it to kill animals for food. The outside of the gun isn't the harmful part, (unless you count the trigger) what on the inside is what ends the lives. But a question I have is (and this is a serious-not-trying-to-make-you-laugh-question) if you were to write a letter to the President asking him why he stood for guns how do you think he would respond? This one of the questions we all ask each other today (but I hope we won't have to keep asking it) but not just about Trump, I am talking about people in general (including the NRA.) The secret Service bans guns so that they won't end the President's life when the President gives a speech about how everyone should hold guns that won't just end the President's life but tons and tons of other people as well. A lot of people come to his speech's because they believe in what he is saying but I hope that we all keep on fighting to end gun violence and fix the gun control. I am really hopeful that all of our ideas for how to keep fighting for gun violence will involve other people in this action and convince people from believing in guns and what they should do. Keep protesting! :)
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Elliot
5/3/2018 03:52:16 pm
No, I don't think he would respond. he's the president, and he's very busy (or so he says, maybe he just tweets all day,), but either way, if he saw it was from a kid writing about gun control, he probably wouldn't read it.
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Bayan
5/9/2018 08:24:52 pm
You are right, he is very busy. So many letters are sent to him a day, he reads VERY few of them. Especially if it was sent from one of the million kids.
Alexei
10/21/2018 12:25:43 pm
Elliot, you are right. Our "President" probably just styles his hair and tweets all day.
Ms. C
5/3/2018 05:09:08 pm
It's hard to take someone seriously when they don't practice what they preach. Why is it not dangerous for teachers to be armed in school around children but it's too dangerous for gun owners to have guns around the President and Vice President? How are their lives worth more? It also proves the point that guns aren't safe if it's a secret service policy to keep our country's power safe by demanding 80,000 gun owners to leave their guns at home when the president is in the building. Case and point! It makes me wonder if Trump and Pence truly believe in supporting the NRA or it's a move to keep money and power in their hands?
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Bayan
5/3/2018 05:40:37 pm
Based on how Trump handled other problems (DOCCA, Immagrant Ban), I think Trump (I don't know about Pence, but probably) only "support" the NRA to get money and power, since the NRA has a lot of money and a lot of POWER. I think Trump is supoorting them so that they give him money. And, in a way, also power, since they are really powerful.
Alexei
10/21/2018 12:24:37 pm
I agree with Bayan.
Maggie
5/6/2018 07:25:09 am
But that doesn't mean other people wouldn't read it for him, he is not the only person who has power or can change things in the U.S.
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Elliot
5/3/2018 04:07:11 pm
It's really hard to think of a solution that would end gun violence and make everyone happy. if we banned guns altogether, all gun owners would get mad, and if we didn't, all anti-gun people would become mad as well. restriction are a possibility, but it still would be possible for someone to weasel their way into owning a gun. giving teachers guns would make it easier to obtain a gun as well. I think one of the best possibilities we have at this point is to ban assault rifles like the AR-15 and dangerous add-ons like high-capacity magazines and bump stocks. most mass shootings are done with assault rifles. In the Las Vegas massacre, the shooter used an assault rifle with a bump stock. the result killed 50! you don't see most mass shootings done with small handguns. a ban like this, I think could heavily decrease mass shootings.
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Bayan
5/3/2018 05:17:38 pm
I think that it's worth letting gun supporters, gun owners, and NRA supporters mad. In order to win an arguement, ONE of the sides has to be mad. It can't be that everyone is happy even though one of the sides lost the argument. ESPECIALLY in this huge situation. But you're right. It is going to be really hard to resolve this HUGE debate (debate meaning ARGUMENT).
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Elliot
5/4/2018 07:32:44 am
Why all the 'bad guys' in our situation. why do they have to get mad? also, that side of the argument has an overwhelming amount of supporters, including, it seems, our president! (or however much longer he has that title.)
Elliot
5/4/2018 07:20:34 am
Better background checks as well. you rarely see someone in their sane mind go and shoot up a place. maybe gun licenses should have to be renewed every year. also, I wonder if people who have been in prison can buy/ own a gun.
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Bayan
5/5/2018 07:37:25 pm
I really hope not (that people who have been in prison can own a gun). Probably not, especially if they went to jail because of shooting people. That would NOT be acceptable.
Ms. C
5/10/2018 07:47:04 am
In many states if you have a criminal record you can not own a gun. I am not sure if I agree with this philosophy. Some crimes are petty or the people who committed them were young and making poor decisions. They could have been connected with the wrong crowd, been in the wrong place at the wrong time, etc. I would hope society wants to help people realize their past mistakes and give them a second chance.
Lukas
5/3/2018 04:50:08 pm
what I think about the NRA's side of the story makes a little different about this problem. They think we should have more protection by holding a gun. We think that still even holding a gun is still dangerous. we are still fighting for the same thing it's just that we
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Ms. C
5/3/2018 04:57:44 pm
Before you publish, make sure to proof read for clarity and grammar. Looks like you have more to say on this issue. Not sure what you mean in your first sentence. Can you clarify?
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Bayan
5/3/2018 05:12:21 pm
You are right.
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Lukas
5/3/2018 05:57:45 pm
*Please disregard my first post*
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isaiah
5/3/2018 07:20:51 pm
Lukas explains the NRA side with the example of the guy who shot three home invaders very well. However, I still don't think that means everybody should carry a gun. The three people that were invading the home were doing something bad but taking away their lives is not a reasonable consequence. Also, there has been many more home disasters then good things happening with AR-15's. There has been accidents children have made and kids accidentlly shooting themselves or other people. Most of the time, AR-15's are the guns chosen for mass shootings like the Parkland Florida incident.Gun technology has improved throughout the years and AR-15's can shoot about 400 bullets a minute which there is No need for. I agree with Alexei's comment AR-15's should be banned.
Bayan
5/5/2018 07:44:21 pm
Killing a home invader(s) is not necesary, especially when you are not asigned to do it. Also, any crime's punishment is based on how harmful that crime is. I don't think invading someone's property is worth being killed. I don't think ANY crime is worth being killed, unless you destroyed a whole country or (more), which is not going to happen any time soon.
Bayan
5/3/2018 05:08:05 pm
I think what the CEO of the NRA said about equal right to everyone for the Second Amendment is wrong.
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Ms. C
5/3/2018 05:12:53 pm
What are the other obvious things that people need to follow that aren't rules yet?
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Bayan
5/3/2018 05:25:56 pm
One of the obvious thing that is not really a rule yet is being stricter on who can OWN guns. Most of the shootings that happen (for example the Prakland Florida school shooting) is done by people who had a terrible past life, or they have a condition in their brain. The Parkland Florida school shooting was done by a man who had done things before. He needed help from someone to help him stop comitting crimes and doing terrible things, and he didn't get it. Anyway, my point is that their should should be stricter gun control laws, especially for who gets to own them.
Ms. C
5/10/2018 07:55:23 am
I agree. Many people who are mentally unstable but have not received psychiatric help. Their mental condition is undocumented. Or they do not have the health care/money to receive mental help. Or families choose to ignore the issue. In these cases it gets tricky because a person could still pass a background check to purchase a gun. I think the young man who killed his former classmates in the Parkland shooting was not receiving psychiatric help so there was no documentation of his mental state. He had been suspended and kicked out of school but that isn't reason enough to not be able to own a gun. I guess my question is, how can we do this effectively?
Ms. C
5/3/2018 05:14:50 pm
Sounds like your saying those in power are passive aggressive and manipulating many civilians (unconscious to it). As you learn about other issues in our country, it would be interesting to see if they use the same tactics to get what they want.
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I think we should ban all automatic and semi-automatic guns (possibly not handguns), but we need to do it in a way that would actually work. If we did something that would most likely be seen by a whole bunch of people, than we might actually be heard by the government and people in power. But, "Slowly. We cannot just ban them completely (I would if I could though, you are right). The government wouldn't say yes to that. It would need to happen slowly. No armed citizens, then later on not many armed police, etc." -Bayan (response to Alexei). The first priority is to ban automatic weapons though, and we should definitely listen to that. If you are wondering what Alexei's post is, and you can't just go to the top of this page and read it for some reason, then here it is:
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Willa
5/3/2018 08:16:59 pm
Does anyone know any politicians who want gun control?
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Ms. C
5/4/2018 08:15:57 am
There are many politicians including the local rep we wrote to! Those are the people we should support to represent our perspectives. You would need to go to each politician's website and see their stance on the issue.
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Isabel
5/3/2018 08:48:37 pm
I feel all guns not police officers or the military or safety jobs etc. should be banned from people who don't need it but I'm being honest I really don't think that there should be guns but like for the military if it was for a police officer it would be fine but they don't use it the all the time so I don't think they should really have guns with people who aren't police officers or in the military.
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Willa
5/3/2018 08:55:23 pm
To start off, I to agree that it is very unfair that guns are allowed around children, but not around adults. it's kinda of odd to not allow guns around a person who wants guns, but then allow guns around a child who just wants to live. That also shows that everyone has their limit in guns. If even the NRA will ban guns for a short period of time, then I think we definitely have a chance of gaining stricter gun laws. But it really just doesn't make any sense that so many adults could be such hypocrites! Adults are supposed to be role models, and being a hypocrite, is not a role model. Another thing is also the fact that people seem blind to the fact that the second amendment is out dated. When the second amendment was made, guns would only fire a bullet per minute or something like that. Back then it was really just impossible to kill 17 people in a couple minutes. Guns weren't as dangerous as they are know, back then. Back then, the second amendment made sense. Now, guns can fire a bullet per second or something. Guns can let out a long, endless chain of bullets, and death. Now it is very easy to kill 17 people in a couple minutes. You could kill more than that with the guns we have now. The second amendment is out dated. The second amendment was made for protection, not to kill 20 people a minute!
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Willa
5/3/2018 08:57:59 pm
Also, not all police men/women are bad. We talk about them as if all of them are bad, when really it's only a small portion of them that are bad.
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Elliot
5/4/2018 07:12:40 am
I agree. most police officers do their jobs correctly, but some get off their rocker sometimes.
Ms. C
5/4/2018 08:21:24 am
This is a great point. It would be like saying all teachers are bad because a portion of teachers make bad choices. We don't want to stereotype a group of people. But in saying that, the severity of unconscious racism in our society including teachers and police officers alike is a problem. There should be more training on building community between officers and neighborhoods. As well as training on recognizing their own racial beliefs and how to equitable handle dangerous situations across neighborhoods.
Chloe
5/6/2018 06:11:42 pm
I agree Willa. Also like how we talk about police officers, sometimes police officers look at a certain person of a certain race and claim that they are dangerous. It’s not that the person is dangerous it’s that the police officer believes that because of their race. If a cop pulls over a black person on the highway they may ultimately assume that that person is dangerous. They probably think like that because of society and how society puts labels on everything and how they grew up believing that someone who is a person of color is bad or dangerous.
Chloe
5/5/2018 06:46:09 pm
So today I looked up if children are allowed to come to the NRA convention and the search results were: children are allowed to come as long as they are with an NRA member
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Mateo
5/6/2018 06:26:07 pm
Wow, I think it's insane that child are not allowed to own guns yet their parents can take them to the NRA convention. This sends a very strong and bad message to young people that powerful weapons are easy to get and something to look forward to owning. It's not a car show --- it's a gun show!
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Bayan
5/8/2018 04:34:44 pm
That is a good point (Chloe's point on police). If people believe that you think a certain way or do a particular thing based on society sees you or a particular group of people you're in for a long time, sometimes you start to believe that about yourself, which is not okay. Even if it's a positive trait. It's still other people that say or think that about you. It may even be true, but that's more of an actual trait you have that you know you do. That is okay.
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Mateo
5/6/2018 07:48:04 pm
When the second amendment was signed America was very different because they did not have the technology that we have today. For example, the guns back in 1791 were muskets which where not as powerful as today's assault rifles. Now people use guns to kill hundreds of people, when the muskets in 1791 were to shoot something that tried to hurt you, like an animal. I don't understand why people in power will let these guns that are so deadly, be allowed to kill so many people. Doesn't it look badly on them when they hear that there was another protest across America asking for NO GUNS. It's time that those in power are held accountable.
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zion
5/6/2018 10:37:13 pm
People with mental disabilities should not have access to a gun in any way. If a person with a mental disability comes in to a gun shop to buy a gun they should get tested so the man or women or is selling the gun can know not to give that person a gun.
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Kei B.
5/7/2018 08:13:06 pm
Before the Parkland shooting there were marches and maybe walkouts but when that story hit the news people started MORE walkouts and MORE marches. And I'm still wondering what would be happening right now if that kid did not walk into Parkland Highschool with a loaded AR 15 would everybody still be mad about the un-right gun laws.
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Ms. C
5/10/2018 07:57:23 am
Great question! I think people would just be going about their everyday lives and letting other people handle the issue.
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Ashiya m
5/7/2018 08:39:26 pm
I think that the idea of teachers handling guns are absolutely positively outrageous! It just doesn't make sense, for one it is unsafe for the person and others around him. Next it is just plain old endangering to the students. In conclusion the Congress should not even consider giving teachers guns.
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Dele
5/7/2018 09:58:37 pm
i think that most of the shootings of people in the U.S solely rests on who is aloud to buy them, if less mentally challenged people are aloud buy guns I am almost 100% sure that there will be a decrease in the number of deaths a year due to gun violence. Being mentally challenged takes a huge tole on how you think about certain objects, especially guns and putting restrictions on the ability to buy guns will help a lot.
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Bayan
5/8/2018 04:26:21 pm
I agree. Being careful on WHO/what people buys the guns that the NRA sells is one of the most important rules. If you sell a gun to someone who is mentally unstable, even if they're not okay just a little bit, that is really dangerous. I feel that if we are going to change make the rules about gun control more strict, I think that should be the first step.
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Ms. C
5/10/2018 07:59:16 am
This is a great idea but how can we do this without respecting people's privacy and being able to accurately track who has a mental disability? What I mean by protecting people's privacy is that it would not be fair to make public a persons mental disorder or state.
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jackw
5/8/2018 11:15:37 am
I feel like most of the shootings in the USA by civilians, are because a lot of the people that support the NRA are afraid that it will be more safe to be shooting with people that have guns, than be shot at by people that have guns. Also, I think that people that support the NRA are afraid to be against the NRA. I think this because the NRA scares people and scares people into thinking that they need a shotgun where ever they go.
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starr
5/8/2018 11:33:21 am
I think AR-15 should be band because there violent and I think there bad because people use them to kill other people I feel like most shootings are by people who are not mentally stable and I feel like the people who sell guns don't really think that the person will kill someone else I think the people that support the NRA are afraid to not have a gun because they want to feel like they have power.
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Maggie
5/8/2018 03:48:23 pm
Why do people need power when they should already feel as if they have power naturally. I guess guns are very powerful considering they can now fire 400 rounds per minute they definitely have power and being able to not just hold power but posses it can put fire in your eyes and make the world a battle field ( I should turn this response into a poem!) I wonder who decided to make a weapon so dangerous. When you think about it, when your listening to story's about how Columbus beat the Native Americans because of all the high-tech weapons they had, you almost wish they were carrying weapons like guns. And it's so funny how one minute your marching against gun violence and the next you wishing the past had come up with guns faster. Wish opinions weren't this confusing and I wish guns weren't either.
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Ms. C
5/10/2018 08:07:04 am
Yes, write a poem!
Ms. C
5/10/2018 08:07:25 am
What a great analogy!!!!
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Alexei
5/10/2018 02:15:47 pm
This video is awesome! I fully agree! Ms. NRA! (heh, heh)
Bayan
5/10/2018 08:11:14 pm
Agree, it is a really awesome video! It makes the point of the people that want stricter gun control easier to understand. If you asked a gun supporter if they they that cheetahs should be allowed ot roam around in school, they owuld propably say no, even though they are agreeing to a VERY similar situation. It's also very humorous :D
Bayan
5/10/2018 08:05:11 pm
There are many reasons for killing people (specifically with guns). The person could be a little off in their head, they could've done it by ACCIDENT (unlikely, but it happens), or they wanted to purposely kill a group of people or one person. It's kind of scary when you think about some of the reasons why people kill other people (or other animals) wiht guns.
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Isaiah
5/10/2018 06:56:56 pm
As we discussed in class about how Australia has banned guns and there has been no mass shootings, I want to know how much protesting and effort it took to make that happen. I can't believe police men and women cannot even hold a gun. WE HAVE TO MAKE OUR GUN RULES SAFER. We are the top on the chart BY FAR on how much guns we have compared to other countries. Also, I really like how that animator in that video Wilder sent us was very funny and serious at the same time. Meaning that he/she put some jokes in the piece, and also spoke about how gun control should stop, comparing that with cats. That was a really cool video, thanks Wilder.
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Elliot
5/21/2018 05:18:52 pm
They can’t hold a gun because they don’t have to.
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It would be awesome if we could build a machine that would clog every gun in the world permanently, but if we did that, than how would the military protect our country? (NOT TAKING THE NRA'S SIDE!!!) The other people in other countries and states would find a different way to attack us and the military would not be able to fight back! Therefore the military shall use guns to protect us, but the civilians would not be able to use guns. This comment is the obvious, and we all know that we should only make a civilian ban, but I was just saying it again for you guys.
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Elliot
5/21/2018 05:15:50 pm
Statistic:
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Alexei
10/21/2018 12:30:02 pm
@#**^ #$%^&! That is a lot of shootings!
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Matthew
6/23/2021 06:07:38 pm
Hey uh wow happy I found this after 3 years :D and too anyone who sees this and was from 5409 hello!
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