The Debate on Gun Control

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center conducted over several years have shown some interesting regularities. For example, over the past two decades, the support for the right of citizens to arm significantly increased - from 29% in 2000 to 51% in 2017, despite the fact that mass killings, for example, in Columbine and Sandy Hook schools, were covered in detail in the media. It also turned out that such episodes have little influence on the opinions of citizens: supporters of free possession of weapons and their opponents stand on their own (Anderson 39 - 48).
Arguments of supporters of guns freedom reduce the right of citizens to self-defense appearing from the Second Amendment. Actually, and it was adopted so that citizens could resist the government if it is going to start dictatorship. True, after 200 years the possibility of an armed uprising in the US is seriously considered only in the apocalyptic products of Hollywood. But nobody took away the right to protect themselves and their dwelling from ...

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