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Argumentative Essay: Why Do Children Have Illegal Weapons

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Give Them Amnesty !!!! Kids in Afghanistan , India , and Guantanamo bay they are child soldiers they are given weapons . The little youngsters should be in school . Why use children they did not do anything to the world to make them do this . So therefore they should get amnesty . Why do kids eighteen and younger have illegal weapons ? {“ Thirteen year old Awil is shouldering a automatic , fully loaded rifle . “ ) He is only thirteen ,and is carrying around a loaded rifle . “Fifteen to Twenty-Seven Kids in Afghanistan are given loaded Weapons like . Tanzi Bakonzi, 15 and about four feet tall, was on patrol. He stood in front of a burned-out vegetable market in Faradje, a town in northeastern Congo, wielding a rusty machete. …show more content…

“ Omar Khadr has bragged about killing a U.S. soldier , and that he claimed the day he planted land mines to kill U.S. and coalition forces was the happiest day of his life . They are drugged and so therefore , the child soldier ( Omar Khadr ) don’t feel guilty about killing the soldiers . Also they can't control the feeling of killing people because of the drugs . Plus the commanders threaten them by telling the child soldiers that if they do not kill that they will kill there family and friends . It is not right for child soldiers thirteen and older have to have loaded guns or weapons . Though lots of those families have to think about their kid that could be dead , be injured out in the desert , or even kidnapped by another child soldier group . So that is why child soldiers should get amnesty. Well this is the child soldiers hobby , and this is what they do for a living . They have food , shelter , and water . They are not drugged . Also they love killing people because it's what they do . They do not care that they are killing other citizens . They know what is right from wrong , and they know what they are doing like what Omar was bragging about … “ Omar bragged about how happy he was that he killed an american soldier , and that it was the best day of his life .

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