Term Papers on The Gun Arguments

Term Paper Title	The Gun Arguments
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The Gun Arguments

Brianne Hansen
Mrs. Jensen
English II
Nov. 30, 1998

     “Sam Walker as not your average American gun owner.  For one thing, he had no interest whatsoever in hunting.  And whereas the average gun owner owns at least three guns, Walker owned only one, a .38-caliber revolver, which friends persuaded him to buy for the sole purpose of protecting himself and his family in their suburban Houston home.  Walker didn’t even particularly like guns.  He still hadn’t gotten around to acquainting himself with his new weapon when his burglar alarm went off one weekday morning last December.  Notified by his security company of the intrusion, Walker rushed home from work, quietly entered the house, took the gun out form the spot where he had left it for safekeeping, and, hearing a noise, moved stealthily up the stairs and opened the closet door.  He saw a movement, a figure, and in a split second fired.  The smoothly oiled gun worked perfectly, and Walker’s aim was true.  A body fell to the floor.  It was his 16-year-old daughter.  She had cut school that day ;and had hidden in the closet to avoid her father.  It wound up costing her life.”(Guterl 85)
     In America each year handguns account for 70 percent of firearm suicides among all age groups.  Two in 25 high school students, or 7.9 percent, reported having carried a gun in the last 30 days.  Every day in the U.S. an estimated 1.2 million elementary school-aged children come home to a house with a gun and no parent.   And every day, 15 American children are killed with guns.  These are just a few facts about how careless people are with guns.
     There are a big group of people in the U.S. that are majorly against guns.  Guns are the leading cause of death in the United States.  If guns were aliminated then this group of people would believe that our death rate woul...

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