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Gun Control2

uld be taken upon the would-beattacker. Unfortunately, arguments of *criminal=s rights=, and *excessiveforce=, put to rest thoughts of a possible veto of some bans. With someeffort from anti-gun control groups, such as the NRA, some of these lawshave been lifted. Also, laws pertaining to self-defense and propertyprotection have come to be passed as well. Some laws also help to protecthomeowners form civil suites made by wounded would-be attackers/intruders(Ward F3). Another example of unwanted (and unneeded) gun violencerestriction laws, was the famous AK-47 crisis. Due to governmentalhandgun bans, the military issue AK-47 became easily accessible, due tothe extended barrel, wich allowed the assault weapon to fall under morelenient gun bans. The weapon quickly became a favorite weapon of thievesand one wich created many a drive-by-shooting victim. In one such case,an AK-47 was used in the massacre of many school children. The rifle hadbeen attained legally. One can begin to wonder just how many of theseviolent crimes could have been prevented by a self-defense weapon. Theattacks by the automatic assault weapon eventually led to more strictassault weapon bans (Hancock C2). Nevertheless, the percentile of assaultweapons related to violent crimes has in facet decreased only a minusculeamount. Wich tends to lead experts to believe that many assault weaponrelated crimes were done with illegal weapons. After all, it would besomewhat illogical of people to commit crimes wich were easily traced backto them by means of a simple background check of assault weapon owners(Hancock C2). It should be noted, that not all forms of gun control areintolerable. 73% of the 70 million gun owners in America declared thatmandatory gun registration exist. 87% of the voters stated thatbackground checks be required (Lacayo 17). One form of gun control wichwas very minutely argued, was the AToys for Guns@, incentive. Theincentive allowed for $100...

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