Gun Control

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In this paper, the author explores both sides of the argument for and against gun control in America. He looks at how both sides differ greatly in their social and political views but use the same tools to argue and win support for their causes. The author uses the example, that the second amendment is interpreted in different ways by gun control advocates and opponents. The author concludes in his opinion that gun control is un-constitutional and is in direct opposition to what the founding fathers of America thought about gun control.

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"History has shown that gun control efforts by a government have many times ended in tragedy. The most notable of these tragedies was the Holocaust, which was responsible for the murder of millions of European Jews. Not only did the Nazi weapon law of 1938 require that all German citizens register their firearms and obtain police permission to posses them, the law also prohibited Jews from possessing firearms. This obviously hindered the Jews' ability to defend themselves and their families against Nazi aggression. Although, in January 1943 in Warsaw, Poland, the Jews held off what was to be the final liquidation of their ghetto, by resisting the German Army with only ten pistols smuggled in by Polish citizens."

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