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 ....
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efforts, we must look at the history of our country, and the role
firearms have played in it. The second amendment to the Constitution
of the United States makes firearm ownership 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 t ....
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