ONLY WOMEN SHOULD BE ALOUD TO OWN GUNS
             Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience on the negative effects of gun control
             Central Idea: The effects gun control will have on the nation are leaving people unprotected against violent crimes, an infringement on states rights, and the loss of hunting and sport shooting in our country.
             In Cumberland, TN, a 28-year-old Jason McCulley broke into the home of Stanley Horn and his wife tied up the two of them at knifepoint, demanded to know where the couple kept their money in the house. While Mrs. Horn was directing the robber, Mr. Horn freed himself from the rope, grabbed his gun of the nightstand and shot the intruder then called the police. The intruder, Jason McCulley, later died from the gunshot wound. If many of the senators on the gun control side of the government, the Horns may have been killed and the perpetrator may have lived to rob again. That is the effect that gun control would have on the nation, leaving people unprotected against violent crimes, an infringement on states rights, and the loss of gun collection and sport-shooting in our country. I. Gun Control would take away persons ability to protect themselves against violent crimes. A. 31 states now have laws that allow citizens to carry firearms. 1. According to Prof. John R. Lott, Jr., and D!
             avid B. Mustard, of the University of Chicago, conducted a study of, "Crime, Deterrence, and Right To Carry Concealed Handguns," and found that "allowing citizens to carry concealed weapons deters violent crimes and it appears to produce no increase in accidental deaths (with guns). If those states which did not have Right to Carry concealed gun provisions and had adopted them in 1992, approximately 1570 murders; 4177 rapes; and over 60000 aggravated assaults would have been avoided yearly...(W)hen state concealed handgun laws went into effect in a county, murders fell by 8.5%,
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