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Term Paper Title	Girls And Their Gangs
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Girls and Their Gangs

Gun Control

Fifth of July and me and my boyfriend are just sitting around watching T.V. when the
phone rings.  I answer the phone and here my best friend Laurie trying to tell me
something through her tears.  I knew it was more thana family problem because she
wouldn’t call me at my boyfriends if it wasn’t serious.  I tried to get her to calm down so
I could half way understand her.  I could here her say something about our good friend
Jerry.
I took her a few minutes but I finally understood her.  Jerry had been shot earlier that day
by two juviniles with handguns in search of drugs and money.

Contention 1.  Juvinile Crime with guns has gone up.

A.  Juviniles homocide with guns is tripling

Congressional Record 96’ ( July 24, Senate Resolution 282)

“Juvinile homosides involving firearms trippled from 1980 to 1994.   Ask any police
chief of any major cities in this country and they will tell you the problem in violence is
that how the weapons are more powerful and they are used more frequently.”

B.  Number of other teen murders by other means has remained the same

     Montgomery, 96’  (Knight-Ridder, July 8)

“Noting that the number of gang murders by juviniles has tripled since 1980 while the
number of teen murders by all other means has stayed the same.”

C.  Black Market is a great sorce of gun trading

Munsey, 96’ (Christopher, March 31)

“Firearms stolen from residents and gun stores are the number one outlet for for
criminals.  ‘They are traded on the street in the brisk black-market whirl that includes
drugs &   cash.’ state police said.

D. Guns kill  more teens than all diseases conbined.

Neergaad, 96’(AP, July 13)

“Guns kill more teen-agers than all other diseases combined. Gun related homicides &
suicides are rising.  Firearms send almost 40,000 americans to thier graves each year.

Contention 2.  Availability of guns to juvililes has gone up.

A. Guns are easy to steal

Munsey,’96 (Christopher, March 31)

“Criminals like stolen handguns because if they are somehow recovered after a crime,
they will turn up in the records only as stolen.”

B. Handguns are sold frequently

Johnson,96’ (Febuary 21, Columbia Dispatch)

“People can buy handguns at gunshows, flea markets, and...

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