Does the rapid growth of gun ownership and armed citizens have anything to do with a diminishing gun violence trend?
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In the state of Guerrero, for instance, in 2013 armed citizens groups set up roadblocks, taking the law into their own hands.
In the early days of gun control, the Sullivan Act was pretty much explicitly passed by the Tammany Hall crowd to make New York safe for thugs, for whom ordinary armed citizens were making life dangerous.
In similar situations, where armed law-abiding citizens were present, tragedies were averted.
He explains that this is logical because criminals are deterred by the risk of attacking an armed target, so as more citizens arm themselves, danger to the criminals increases.
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And when short-term needs arise, such as the evacuation of British citizens from Lebanon last month, the armed services have to meet them.
The citizens of Boston and its suburbs allowed massively armed SWAT teams to enter their homes, order residents out and eventually find the bullet-riddled Dzhokhar Tsarnaev lying half-dead in a boat.
Paul, who is the son of former Texas congressman and libertarian leader Ron Paul, offered at one point during the filibuster to allow a vote on Brennan if the Senate would vote on his resolution stating that the use of the unmanned, armed aircraft on U.S. soil against American citizens violates the Constitution.
Fewer than one percent of the citizens of our nation choose to serve in the armed forces.
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It was a tribute to U.S. Armed Forces from the perspective of a nation of loved ones and citizens who await their return.
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Thank you very much to our citizens for their services and for their co-operation and many thanks for our armed forces and security forces and the army.
In 2011 alone, USCIS held more than 6, 000 naturalization ceremonies for 692, 000 lawful permanent residents who became U.S. citizens, including more than 10, 000 members of the U.S. Armed Forces.
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And we always want to remember that serving our country is not just something that we should expect our members of our Armed Forces to do, that's something that we should expect all of us as citizens to do.
You represent not only the branch of the Armed Services that you are a part of, but also the other members who are your fellow citizens here today, and we thank you very much.
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