Topic Strings Assignment

1.  These gun control laws and gun rights laws are what the gun debate’s foundation is constructed around.  Understanding them is essential to comprehending what currently is being debated by both sides.   Gun control activists are using crime as a tool to pass new laws, and gun rights activists are using the Bill of Rights to protect their rights from being taken away by regulation.  Both sides are implementing statistics in their attempts to sway people in their direction.            

2.  Characters:  The characters for this paragraph are (1.) gun debate, (2.) gun rights activists, and (3.) gun control activists.  

3.  The purpose of paragraph is to briefly summarize and define the three characters: gun debate, gun rights activists, and gun control activists.  The following paragraph is first introducing the protest, and afterwards it makes a clear distinction between the two protest groups.  The paragraph does this by describing the laws which constitute the gun debate.  By clarifying the difference between the two it may clear up any confusion and it will give the reader a quick overview of the two groups.  If the paragraph is correctly written it should be a mixed topic/chain topic string.                                            

(6.)     New topic sentence.  The gun debate is comprised of one question, what will stop gun involved crimes and reduce criminal activity.   

4.  The gun debate is the name for the protest in which gun rights and gun control activists contend with one another.  The question is should guns continue to be legal in America, or if not they should be strongly regulated, if so to what extent.  Gun rights activists endeavor to pass gun rights laws that stop regulation of firearms.  Frequently, the Bill of Rights is used as leverage in their fight for their rights.  Many of them believe that it is their right as a living human to bear arms in America, as the constitution states it.  They use the second amendment as a right to uphold their liberty.  Not only do they believe it upholds their liberty, but they think that more arms bearing citizens will decrease crime.  Gun control activists exert their efforts to enact gun regulating laws, which should stop criminals dead in their tracks.  They have the opinion that firearms are the reason many people are killed and the reason there is so much crime.  Many of them question the second amendment, because the time at which it was written, guns were not as effective as they are now.  How could the authors of the constitution foresee the transformation of the musket over the centuries?  These two sides are what have progressed the gun debate for years, yet there still is no ruling verdict which answers the question at hand.          

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Topic	Stress
gun debate	is the name for the protest
gun rights activists	endeavor to pass gun rights laws
gun control activists	exert their efforts to enact gun regulating laws