Anticipation+Guide-+Parrot+in+the+Oven

ANTICIPATION GUIDE- //Parrot in the Oven//: "Guns in Our Lives"  Read each statement below and decide if you agree or disagree with it. Then write a brief explanation why you agree or disagree. Click on Edit at the top right of this screen to add your response. Write your first name and last initial after your response. Click Save when you are finished.

**_1. The Second Amendment to the Constitution only guarantees the right to own guns to protect the United States of America. At the time it was written, the government expected the soldiers to provide their own guns for battle.**

I disagree with this because the colonists wanted some sense of protection. Haley Gonzalez

I disagree because guns can easily have a glitch and harm someone or yourself. Haley Gonzalez
 * _2. Guns owned for target practice or hunting are not dangerous to humans.**

I agree and disagree because people will overdose, or drown themselves, self harm themselves, etc. Haley Gonzalez
 * _4. Handguns are the most popular tools for suicide.**


 * _5. Criminals mainly purchase guns in retail stores and pawnshops.**

I agree because if they buy it from somewhere else, it would be registered to them. If they buy it from a retail store or pawnshop it's not registered to them. Haley Gonzalez


 * _6. Since states that prohibit or severely restrict the right to carry handguns have higher crime rates, gun laws must be ineffective.**

I disagree because that's just people being stubborn, and firearms shouldn't be for sale. Haley Gonzalez

I disagree because I don't see why we need assault weapons unless we're in the military or something in relation with that. Haley Gonzalez
 * _7. Civilians need to be able to purchase assault weapons.**

I disagree because if we all owned guns, there would be an endless amount of deaths and injuries. Haley Gonzalez
 * _8. Since there is a lot of crime in our society, we should all own guns.**

I agree because I don't know. I don't have any source of statistics about this. Haley Gonzalez
 * _9. The FBI's report, Crime in the United States, estimated that almost two thirds of the 15,517 murders committed in 2000 were committed with firearms.**


 * _10. Thirty-two states now have right-to-carry handgun laws.**

I disagree because you shouldn't really need a handgun unless you're a police, detective, or in the army or military of some sort. Haley Gonzalez

I disagree with this because we shouldn't even have any access to firearms unless it's necessary. Haley Gonzalez
 * _11. According to the National Crime Victimization Survey, in 2000, 533,470 victims of violent crimes (rape and sexual assault, robbery and aggravated assault) stated that they faced an offender with a firearm.**

I disagree because there are other ways that deaths occur, if not firearms, then something else that can be used as a weapon. Haley Gonzalez
 * ___12. Some say that since the majority of accidental deaths involve motor vehicles, drowning falls, fires, etc., accidental firearm wounds are insignificant.**