Guns Under Fire
In (0) ….its... article “Guns Under Fire”, Rolling Stone magazine
has reported that (1) …………. the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert
Kennedy, the issue of gun control has never been (2) ………… hot in the USA. Over
recent years there has (3) ………… a rash of high profile incidents relating to
gun violence in schools and in the streets of the country. The alarm (4) …………
firearm safety is so great that schools in many states have “gun drills”.
Ellen Freudenheim runs a non-profit organization called the Silent
March, which works (5) ………… gun-violence prevention. She tells us, “Thirty
thousand people are killed in a single year, which is about 80% more than in
(6) ………… other nation in the world”.
The National Rifle Association’s power (7) ………… buy politicians has
traditionally made (8) ………… a formidable force in any election. However, today
(9) ………… is felt that this position is weakening. Used to a disorganized
opposition, the NRA must now confront a unified block (10) ………… pro-gun control
voters.
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