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Spencer Stewart

English 2010.10

Prof. Erick Faatz

September 17, 2015

Quotation Exercise

2. We live in a society where it is easy for one to purchase a firearm. Many different

kinds of people live in the United States. Mark Nuckols, professor of law and business at a

University states that “… we tolerate such seriously ineffective barriers to gun purchasing that

even deeply troubled people can walk into Wal-Mart and buy a Smith & Wesson” (152).

3. Not only is Wal-Mart one way to obtain a gun. Nuckols reveals that a “thriving illegal

black market” is another simple way to obtain a firearm (152).

4. To help combat this problem of lax gun regulations, 300 US mayors underwent a study

showing that those US states that have more strict regulations showed lower sales in weapons

(152).

1. Mark Nuckols claims that “For decades, the gun lobby has loudly proclaimed that the

Second Amendment protects an individual right to gun ownership” (150).

2. Nuckols points out that this heavily affects a few groups. He notes that “wifes and

girlfriends of men who won guns,” are heavily impacted by these actions.

3. Nuckols figures that the issue of monitoring is mostly “… a political issue,” (150)

4. As we look at different ideas behind this, Nuckols stats that another “oft-heard

argument… is that gun owners can stand against internal tyranny or external military threat”

(150).
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5. In order for self-defense to succeed, we need a “country’s national guard … through

the civic participation or military service” (151).

6. While looking at it from a constitutional standpoint “Only recently has the Supreme

Court actually endorsed this interpretation, and the court held only that the federal and local

governments cannot impose absolute bans on gun ownership…” (150).

1. As Mark Nuckols explains “… when 20 young children and six adults are murdered in

a shooting spree in a grade school in a quiet Connecticut community [Newtown], as well as the

gunman killing himself and his mother, the entire nation [United States of America] is appalled

by such random and massive violence” (149).

2. Nuckols strongly stands that “Gun violence in America is a national plague that we

urgently need to eradicate. Let Newtown [Connecticut] be the new day for gun regulation…”

(152).

3. When one steps back a looks at what Nuckols calls “… the war… waged in US

communities [this refers to 100,000 Americans killed year after year] and homes…” (149).