Annie Jump Cannon

What would happen if we banned guns? Would the crime rate increase? Would we start losing other rights that are in the constitution? Would our country begin to be run by criminals and foolish people? I don’t want to find out and I don’t want to live in a world where those happen. I believe that if we ban guns, it would lead to worse things down the road; people would be frightened if they understood what they would be losing and those people won’t realize until they are in a situation where they…

Most people would disagree that there is a need to allow guns on school campuses. According to Brady Center the author says “Rather than making anyone feel safer, allowing students to possess and use firearms on college campuses will likely breed fear and paranoia among fellow students since no one will know whether the other person can simply retrieve or pull out a gun if a dispute arises”. This quote shows that rather than making it safer for students, they would feel more at risk than before.…

There were many weapons in Medieval times, but some of the most effective were long range weapons. There were many types of long range weapons, the most influential were the longbow and the crossbow. Some other long range weapons that were not so effective compared with the crossbow and longbow were slingshots and throwing axes. These weapons may not have been as effective but they were much cheaper and easier to use. How were long range weapons made? Two main weapons dominated in the Medieval…

What do you think is the most notorious crime in American history? I think the most notorious crime is a felonious homicide. The gun shooting is definitely more common but threatening among the acts of murder. I believe that the United States needs to strengthen a gun control because it is a key to reduce the death rates. There might not be much things that we can do about it, in such as a country where the parents murder their children and the children murder their parents that is currently…

Name: Ben Tanke, Brooke Binkley, and Hailey Fenn Block: 3rd Title: Gunpowder QPOEE Question: Which amount of Sulfur(.25 grams, .5 grams, .75 grams, and 1 gram) creates the closest reaction with fire as the store bought gunpowder in terms of size of flame and the time duration of the flame? Knowledge Probe: The equation for the reaction of our gunpowder is 10Na NO3 + 8C + 3S → 2 Na2 CO3 + 3Na2SO4 + 6CO2 + 5N2. This shows that Sodium Nitrate is reacting with…

The topic is “by providing more education on guns to school aged children (aged 5 to 18) the number of accidental shootings will be reduced.” The problem statement is that to many individuals die in shootings every day. Nearly 48 youth are shot every day, including 7 fatalities. By providing children with proper knowledge and training on how to handle a gun the number of incidents will be reduced. The population for research will be the entire United States. Stratified sampling will be used due…

Change Children Life’s Sitting down watching television the news comes up and the information shows that a child shot themselves. It appears that the parents had a gun in their house and the gun was hidden but the child found it. The people’s reaction was that there shouldn’t have to be a gun in the house so anything bad cannot happen. These stories are touching because a child being shot by someone in their family and could also shoot themselves is a horrible story to hear and even see.…

Political Cartoon Analysis Guns are the subject of much controversy and debate in the United States, especially with the increase of gun related violence in recent years. In this analysis I will be comparing and contrasting two political cartoons with opposing views concerning America’s gun politics. The first political cartoon that I have chosen to analyse was created by David Horsey and published in Hearst Newspapers in 2011. This cartoon is colored, and divided horizontally into two…

"It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament with abandoning the whole great adventure of building a connective peace system."-Arthur Henderson. In the United States, the people have always been given the right to bear arms and the law protects that right for them. America needs to see the positive and negative effects of disarmament. Disarmament can bring more reliability on our safety such as less murders, robberies, and crimes. It could also be the downfall of our…

We noted in our first piece on the Alton Sterling shooting that while he appeared to reach for a firearm in his pocket, it was still disputable. Only one video was available at the time, and it wasn’t of the best quality. A second video has surfaced, and it does appear to validate the police narrative on the shooting. The video, courtesy of USA Today, is posted below: By contrast, you can watch the original video here. The blog Blue Lives Matter has a fantastic analysis of the new video:…