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1.   Create a complete preparation outline using the outline template below for a persuasive speech.

 

 

 

2.   You may choose from one of the topics below.

 

1. 1. Why banning the use of cell phones while driving should be mandatory nationwide
   2. What I see as the biggest challenges young adults face today
   3. Increased dependence on technology in the U.S.
   4. Bullying in schools.
   5. Gun laws in the U.S.

       

      3.   State the general purpose, specific purpose, and central idea clearly and in the appropriate form.

       

      4.   Limit your key points to no more than three and supporting statements with resources to no more than two per key point.

       

      5.   State your key points and supporting materials in complete sentences.

       

      6.   Summarize key points of introduction with a call for action in your conclusion.

       

      7.   Based on your submitted outline, begin writing the first draft of your speech while studying the next lesson.  In Lesson 7, you will study how to write the components of your speech.  The outcome of this process is a final written speech to be submitted as your final assignment in Lesson 7.

       

       

       

       

Use this outline as your template.

 

 

 

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1. General Purpose
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1. Introduction

 

1. Key point #1
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1. Body of the Presentation

 

1. Key Point #1

 

1. Supporting statement and resource
2. Supporting statement and resource

 

1. Key Point #2

 

1. Supporting statement and resource
2. Supporting statement and resource

 

1. Key Point #3

 

1. Supporting statement and resource
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1. Conclusion

    

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                        SPEECH ABOUT GUN LAWS IN THE U.S

On April 16, 2007, a senior at Virginia Tech named Seung-Hui Cho shot and executed 32 individuals and injured 17 others on the grounds before conferring suicide. On July 20, 2012, a mass shooting happened inside a motion picture theater in Aurora, Colorado amid a screening of The Dark Knight Rises. 12 individuals were murdered and 58 others were harmed. Most as of late, on December 14, 2012, a man named Adam Lanza shot 20 youngsters and six staff individuals at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

These are just a couple of mass shootings that have happened as of late in the past and have started level headed discussion about the questionable theme of firearm control. Consistently, pretty nearly 100,000 Americans succumb to weapon viciousness. In spite of the fact that I don’t trust firearms ought to be totally banned, I do trust it is our obligation as Americans to make our nation more secure by constraining the purchasing and offering of weapons, limiting ammo magazine’s sizes, and expressing different measures. I trust this will keep these fierce slaughters from happening.

Americans own an expected aggregate of 270 million guns, which implies roughly 90% of the populace have a gun. What’s more, as indicated by measurements, living in a home where there is a weapon expands the danger of murder by 40% to 170%. This demonstrates that individuals who have the accessibility of a weapon in their home very nearly have a 4 times more prominent possibility of doing manslaughter than individuals who don’t have a firearm. Another study led by the U.S Secret Service of 37 school shootings in 26 distinct states has additionally uncovered that in almost 66% of the occurrences, the aggressor got the firearm from his or her own particular home or of that of a relative. Individuals may need to have weapons for self-protection and amusement, yet it likewise expands the shots of crime.

“An all-around directed Militia, being important to the security of a free State, the privilege of the individuals to keep and carry weapons, might not be encroached.”

You may have known about this renowned Second Amendment of the U.S Constitution, broadly known as the privilege to carry weapons. Numerous Anti-Gun control activists, for example, the National Rifle Association utilize this alteration to express that weapon control is disregarding their acquired rights given to them by the U.S Constitution. Yet, the second change does not express that individuals ought to be permitted, with no limitation, to purchase and offer huge military style programmed rifles, for example, those as of late utilized as a part of numerous mass shootings. These firearms are for protection purposes, as well as can be utilized to execute numerous individuals effectively.

In 1994 the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act was passed. Normally alluded to as the Assault Weapons Ban, this bill banned the ownership, assembling, and importation of new quick firing guns and extensive limit ammo magazines for regular citizen utilization. Prior to this bill was passed, studies demonstrate that vast limit magazines were included in 14 to 26% of firearm unlawful acts, when contrasted with strike weapons which represented 6% of law violations.

This bill helped lessen the measure of substantial limit magazines being utilized as a part of mass shootings. Case in point, when the bill was passed and the boycott was in actuality, the Virginia State Police encountered a relentless decrease in the quantity of guns with substantial limit magazines utilized as a part of unlawful acts, coming to a low 10% in 2004. Since the bill was essentially for just 10 years, in 2005 Congress neglected to replenish the boycott and the number expanded. By 2010, almost 22% of firearms recouped in unlawful acts had huge limit magazines.

Numerous individuals additionally contend we have to comprehend the brain research of the executioner. Individuals trust that in the event that we can comprehend the brain of the mass killers, we can keep the mass homicides from happening. In any case, we need to acknowledge that there will dependably be sociopaths living undetected in the midst of our populace. Regardless of the reasons for why the executioner did what he did, the issue we need to concentrate on now is the way to keep and point of confinement these executioners from getting to guns and a lot of ammunition.

Some hostile to weapon control activists likewise contend that laws disallowing the conveying of arms will incapacitate just the individuals who are law-abiders and will make things less demanding for the aggressors who will at any rate be resolved to infringe upon the law. The world is not impeccable, and neither would it be able to ever be. There will dependably be executioners hiding in our middle, and in the event that we can never totally boycott weapons, in light of the fact that firearms will never neglect to exist. I’m not saying that we boycott firearms, on the grounds that then no one will have the capacity to safeguard themselves on the off chance that they are being ambushed. We have to point of confinement ammo magazines, so that if executioners choose they need to go on frenzy shootings, they won’t have entry to programmed rifles, which makes submitting slaughters less demanding for them. As Ex-Chief Justice Warren Burger said, “Americans likewise have a privilege to shield their homes, and we require not challenge that… To “keep and carry weapons” for chasing today is basically a recreational action and not a basic of survival, as it was 200 years prior. “Saturday night specials” and assault rifles are not recreational weapons and doubtlessly are as much needing regulation as engine vehicles.” Not just do we have to boycott regular citizen utilization of programmed rifles and substantial ammo magazines, however we likewise need to constrain and limit littler guns, for example, handguns. Truth be told, studies by the Bureau of Justice demonstrate that as handgun creation has expanded, so has the measure of murders by handguns.

Not just do grown-ups get executed in these shootings, however kids and youthful grown-ups are the best casualties. Since 1980, 297 individuals have been slaughtered in school shootings. Insights demonstrate that youngsters and youthful grown-ups involve 38% of all gun passings and not-deadly wounds. In light of the late mass shootings, for example, the Aurora shooting and the Sandy Hook shooting, Congress has begun to concentrate more consideration on the theme of weapon control. President Barack Obama has acquainted numerous recommendations with fix firearm control laws. His arrangements incorporate all inclusive personal investigations, the reestablishment of the Assault Weapons boycott, and restricting ammo magazines to a 10-round limit, and numerous such measures.

These measures will guarantee the correct utilization of weapons and will confine access to self-loader and programmed rifles that can be utilized to confer mass murders. Personal investigations will likewise guarantee that different weapons will be had just be individuals who are rationally sufficiently steady to possess them. On the off chance that we can’t totally stop shootings, we need to keep the purchasing and offering of firearms to the individuals who can’t deal with weapons, we need to anticipate huge ammo magazine’s sizes, and afterward, I think, we Americans will likewise have the capacity to keep these brutal slaughters from happening.

 

 

REFERENCES:

 

Henderson, H. (2000.). Gun control. New York: Facts On File.

Office., U. S., Judiciary., U. S., & Judiciary, U. S. (1996). Gun control : implementation of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act : report to the Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. Senate, and the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives. Washington, D.C.