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Persuasive Speech

I haven’t been here for a few weeks, the first week was because of a business trip, the second spring break and the third my son was in the hospital, but last week I missed class because I chose to re-write my speech. I felt that my topic being what it is I couldn’t talk about it without mentioning let alone centering my speech around the Virginia tech incident.
This is an copy of an auction on eBay for 10 rounds. Selling for 6 bucks. Now that means each bullet was sixty cents, now let me ask you what your life cost? Last week 33 people who were once alive and well were killed, with a bullet bought on eBay for less than a dollar a piece. Those were the lives of 33 people-4 of which were college professors-who did not deserve to die, who did not think they were going to die and were definitely NOT ready to be done living. I have mixed feeling on the decision of weather or not we should be aloud to buy and carry guns. I feel we should all be aloud the right after extensive test and classes, but after evening out the pros and cons I believe that our country should NOT allow people to buy guns. Unfortunately we cannot take the risk of those who have less self control than us, for those who can’t help but use violence to solve whatever predicament they are in-weather it be mental or physical.
I will argue that our country should not allow people to buy guns on a social, legal and moral level. I believe that as sad as it is, we cannot predict what people will do with the guns we sell them.
As I have already expressed in my opening my first and main reason why I believe guns should not be sold to the public is because we cannot predict what they will be used for. There are different uses for a gun, some of the ways I could think of were: to protect a home, to scare a family member, to ease a mind of the fear of being in danger, to kill someone, to harm someone, to look cool in front of your friends, go to the shooting range, to collect or to re-sell. There...