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Gun control laws compromise safety

Taylor Becerra October 23, 2017

By allowing gun control laws, we are denying the right to personal safety. Gun control laws infringe on the 2nd amendment. People of the United States deserve the right to feel safe in their own homes,...

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Peace does not need weapons

Monica Acevedo October 23, 2017

According to the New York Times, being killed with a gun in Japan is as likely as being killed by a lightning strike in the U.S. Gun control needs to be put in place before the United States experiences...

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Marijuana and Guns, Knowing the Issues

Hayley Stevenson November 7, 2016

Selecting how we vote on propositions, which are the measures or legislation "proposed" to the voters, and the ones the strongest approval/disapproval results will be put in place. Each state has its own...

Its time to stop romanticizing your guns

Rodney Figueroa October 19, 2015

Gun ownership needs to be sharply curbed. We’ve talked about it, we’ve argued over and yet here we are again unable to actually put the foot forward to do something about it in the wake of another...

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No guns on campus, please

Kirk Mattu December 8, 2014

As gun control has become a major political topic within the past few years and mass shootings have rocked the nation from movie theaters to elementary schools, college campuses are questioning whether...

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Zero tolerance, zero results, zero logic

Megan Bubak April 1, 2014

Why should a kid be condemned for being a kid? Perhaps we didn’t understand the concept of guns, but we still played cops and robbers. In early March, a fifth grade student named Nathan Entingh...

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