Annie Jump Cannon

The day started when I woke up around 5:00 my dad asked me if I wanted to pheasant hunt and I was willing to go. That morning I was excited to go and it was youth season. I went out to my dog Max’s kennel and he was just as excited as I was. We went out and I got the gun loaded and we started out. In the car I my adrenaline was racing and it was my first time pheasant hunting. Although I was a bit nervous it was good. When we got out to the field my dad showed me how to load and unload a gun and…

More than 12,000 people die of homicides due to gun violence each year. Gun violence is a form of violence that has the use of a gun. Some forms of gun violence are suicide, intentional homicide, or even domestic abuse. One of the amendments states that you have the right to carry a gun. When a person kills someone they should lose the right to carry a gun. Gun violence can have many effects, especially towards children. Children who are exposed to gun violence later get negative…

“Get a Knife, Get a Dog, But Get Rid of Guns” by Molly Ivins was written to show gun holders a simple alternative of self-defense. Ivin’s point is very clear that guns control laws should be banned, or at least restricted.To get her point across, she uses techniques like sarcastic humor and examples of politics to help justify her personal beliefs on gun control; guns are destructive and should to be regulated, better yet illegal. In order to ease into her argument, Ivin starts her piece…

Hello Secretary of State, Please do not let your opponent drag you down into the quagmire. An individual who wipe his dirty feet on members of his own party, bring them down to rubble and made all of them feel inferior in order to stay on top, is definitely not a decent individual. He reduces them to something that is less than human. Therefore, he is an Infidel and a Demoralizer. Additionally, we all know that as soon as the 2nd Amendment is mention the next line is "They want to take away…

I am going to be honest in regards to the article titled “Compensators: Pressure or Gas?” by Brad Miller, Ph.D. I did not understand one bit of it. I ended up re-reading it three times just to get the basic point of the article. My first struggle is I did not know some of the terminology he was using, such as charge weight, linear regression or chamber pressure. Or the fact I have not used or heard of Newton’s Second Law or Newtonian physics since high school some 25 years ago. I know the…

Leather shooting bags are designed to carry shooting accessories, specialist items, bearing loads comfortably while leaving the shooter's hands free. They provide quick access to the weapon, scopes, and ammunition. Modern day shooting bags have compartments ensuring that everything required is handy. Some bags have been designed in a way that the shooting bag swivels from back to front making the gear more accessible, especially when on the move. While leather shooting bags come in a wide range…

It was dark. Just dark and cold. Nothing but the frozen breath of a small, dark-skinned boy in the city. She was as quiet as the empty city; the rusty buildings sometimes creaking along with his shaky, unsteady breath. His sweaty hands nervously gripped the gun lying beside him and as he did, he remembered his father. He was always there for him; talking and laughing, then going camping and fishing, and he even taught him how to shoot a gun and-shoot. A shot... a shot which broke him, split him,…

About 30,000 people that can't protect themselves are killed every year by guns. There is an argument going on about whether or not to ban guns or keep them legal to buy in the United States. Guns should stay legal to buy, because most guns’ people kill other people with are illegal and bought off the black market. So many people's lives would be changed by this if they made guns illegal to buy. It should stay legal to buy and use guns because most guns found in crime scenes are illegally…

Why guns should be used in households. Guns should be able to be in any house as long as the person who owns the gun get a background check. Most people think people who have guns can kill anyone but yet they fail to recognize that guns can also be home defenses. People who own guns are not bad they just either like to shoot guns or they just feel there home is safer with a gun in their possession. Many Americans buy guns for one purpose, home safety which is understandable because there many…

Blog Post 6 Buy a locking system for your gun: This might not be the most effective way to make your guns safe but it is a way. Locking systems could work in a really good way though because only certain people can fire your gun. This means your children can’t fire them on accident because it’s only equipped with your signal. There are many different types of signals to choose from; your voice, retinal scan, or more commonly known: a fingerprint locking system. Guns that have these locking…