Exactly What Firearms Regulations Should We Have and Why?

When you've finished thinking the issue through, write a paper explaining what you came up with.

Read one article on each side of the gun control debate, critically evaluate the arguments on both sides, come to a logically supported, evidence-based conclusion, and write a paper stating your thesis, supporting your thesis, and which states and critiques at least one opposing argument.

General Information, and Mixed Articles Representing Both Sides

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_control

https://www.justfacts.com/guncontrol.asp

http://www.pewresearch.org/topics/gun-control/

http://www.ontheissues.org/Background_Gun_Control.htm

http://www.debate.org/opinions/do-we-need-gun-control

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2007/04/20/DI2007042001760.html

http://www.debate.org/debates/Gun-Control-is-wrong-and-the-government-shouldnt-infringe-on-the-Second-Amendment/1/

Pro-Regulation Articles

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-murder-shootings-gun-control-nra-20140527-story.html

http://pleasecutthecrap.com/why-we-need-gun-control-period/

http://bangordailynews.com/2012/12/25/opinion/why-we-need-gun-control/

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/06/gun_control_debate_we_re_not_having_one_after_charleston_and_we_haven_t.html

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/12/the-case-for-more-guns-and-more-gun-control/309161/

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113292/nras-end-real-gun-control-movement-has-arrived

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/07/12/chicago-lawsuit-gun-control-a-civil-right/

Anti-Regulation Articles

http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/gun-control-myths-realities

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/07/22/shaneen-allen-race-and-gun-control/

http://jpfo.org/filegen-a-m/deathgc.htm

http://www.conservapedia.com/Gun_control

http://calwatchdog.com/2013/01/08/why-we-need-gun-rights/

http://www.thetimesnews.com/article/20130408/News/304089858

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/mar/22/gun-control-is-wrong-move-for-colorado-united-states

Gun Control, Pro Regulation: Coalition to Stop Gun Violence and Gun Control Study and 2013 Study

Gun Control, Anti Regulation: Gun Facts

Articles About Gun-Violence and Science

• http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/storyline/wp/2015/01/14/why-the-cdc-still-isnt-researching-gun-violence-despite-the-ban-being-lifted-two-years-ago/
• http://www.businessinsider.com/cdc-nra-kills-gun-violence-research-2013-1
• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-weisser/john-boehner-cdc-guns_b_7738572.html
• http://www.propublica.org/article/republicans-say-no-to-cdc-gun-violence-research
• http://www.thetakeaway.org/story/twisting-gun-science-and-silencing-researchers/

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