Why Guns Are Bad

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How guns can be controlled and useful at the same time is that we can conserve them, by making sure that the wrong people such as kids don’t get a hold of the guns that might be put in their possession or somewhere the firearm can be hidden and the kids might find it. So it is very important to know what instructors are doing especially when it comes to guns and teaching little kids how dangerous they can be, until how they instructor's their students teach them how to use them responsibly also the other way that a concealed weapon can be dangerous if also a mentally unstable person gets a hold of a gun or just simply in possession with the wrong person. ( Milligan Susan. “ We Need Gun Control To Stop more than Criminals .”)
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In Colorado there is a law that children under the age of 14 can own a gun and have it in their possession also the teachers are allowed to keep guns on them especially if they have a license and papers to prove that they are allowed to own a firearm in the classroom as long as if their mentally stable, and as long if they keep their weapon in a safe place where no students inside the classroom can get a hold of it especially if they are not mentally stable. But it is different in colleges they are not allowed to have guns they have not yet passed that law yet therefore that reason their is a lot of students that are using weapons as threatening people, around campus that they can’t have any of that on their campus ground that's why they have high security around on the school grounds where they will not be any kind of school disturbances on the school campus. There is also a big harassment issue with guns also stalking comes into role when somebody is in a relationship with somebody that is only when someone life is in danger especially in the state of california they hear threats like that everyday and there is a word for …show more content…

( Hardy, David T. “ Why are gun owners are Right to Fight Against Gun Control” reason.com) Seven states have to be background checked before anybody can buy a gun from their store and here are the following states listed below: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, New York, Oregon, and Rhode Island and the handgun checks on the four states are Hawaii, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, it is very important to know how many guns are made a day since there is a lot violence happening today in America and the president is thinking about taking our guns away which is not right.(Friedman, Matt. “ Gun Control groups file lawsuit to force NJ attorney general to report on smart guns”. true jersey.) Which that is why they should not take away people's guns that they have in their homes to prevent having walk in burglaries also home invasions they been having this issue since 1989 all the way through the year of 2015 that is why the police are working on getting that

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