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Everyday our children wake up and make the dangerous journey to school. With the recent occurrences in Jonesboro, Arkansas and Littleton, Colorado, our children are even more scared to make this dangerous journey to school. With the threat of death becoming mor ....

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.... arms... disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.” This statement was said by Thomas Jefferson, one of the singlemost important men in the foundation of our country. Almost all gun control debates begin with an individual’s interpretation. The Second Amendment to the Constitution guarantees us the right to arm ourselves in order to defend ourselves and our society: “A well regulated Militia, bein ....