High school speech

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If you have room, adding something about how every individual is responsible for their own safety would be nice. Gonzales v Castle Rock is a good supreme court case which stated that even if the police issue a restraining order, the responsibility of safety still lies with the individual. Cops can't, and shouldn't be everywhere all the time. They are only for maintaining general order in society. When seconds count, help is minutes away.

Firearms level the playing field against predators.

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Many people have raised concern regarding what has become known as the “gun show loophole”, and these concerns are justified. The fact that gun shows are exempt from almost all regulations is horrifying. Even if you do not believe in gun control, it is hardly disputable that this should be fixed if for no other reason than to uphold the law. Fortunately for us, no such loophole exists.

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I'd change 'fact' to 'belief', as it is more in line with your statement immediately afterwards about how no loophole actually exists.

Also, mass public shoottings still happened before gun free zones, they just weren't covered nearly as extensively, and they *may* have been less common (although I'm not sure about that), same with shootings in schools (also, the nationalmedia usually ignores it when shoottings happen in minortiy schools, they usually only report on the suburban white crazies; although admittly most minority school shootings are gang related, while the crazy whities usually don't have any previous record of violence before they go shoot up the place). So before careful with what you say about free kill zones, otherwise it makes people doubt your whole speech if you make just a few errors (especially large ones).