Failure Of Gun Control Laws
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Americans are faced with an ever-growing problem of violence. Our streets
have become a battleground where the elderly are beaten for their social
security checks, where terrified women are viciously attacked and raped,
where teen-age gangsters shoot it out for a patch of turf to sell their
illegal ....
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.... legal in this country. There were good reasons for this freedom,
reasons which persist today. Firearms in the new world were used initially
for hunting, and occasionally for self-defense. However, when the colonists
felt that the burden of British oppression was too much for them to bear,
they picked up their personal firearms and went to war. Standing against
the British armies, these rebels found themselves opposed by the greatest
military force in the world at that time. The 18th centur ....
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