Gun Control is not Crime Control Americans are faced with an ever-increasing problem of violence. The streets of America are now a war zone. Teenage gangsters murder one another for drug territory, and innocent victims are caught in the crossfire. However, most recent and most abhorrent, is our children are killing one another. They are killing with extreme prejudice. Our children are killing, exhibiting little or no remorse for lives they have taken. We cannot …
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…the movement away from personal responsibility that led the way to our present dilemma. There seems to be an excuse for every criminal activity. His dad slapped him, they lived in a bad section of town, and their dad ran off when they were young. If the hardships of life are legitimate excuses to commit crimes, the people of the depression years should have all become killers. Guns were certainly readily available at that time.