Two people, Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, were involved in a mass shooting on Wednesday in San Bernardino, California. The duo killed 14 people and left 21 people injured. With the ammunition they had, it looked like they planned the assault beforehand. They found a few bombs that did not go off at the scene and are using them for research. Investigators say that Farook had connections to some people who are under investigation for international terrorism and that might have been their motivation to start this mass shooting.…
C. Johnson-Getting there Shehan Perera Montgomery College Abstract The title of the paper is appropriate for the topic that is in discussion. But as I kept reading, the paper deviates from the point and the level of effort put into the paper decreases throughout the mid-section of the paper. There were many problems that came up while going through the paper.…
It’s the middle of the night, Hank, a black man is lying in bed after a long day of work. He is resting his tired body, on the verge of sleeping, when a pounding at the door wakes him immediately. He gets up to check the door. As he approaches the door, he can hear yelling and derogatory terms. He opens the door and a mob of people are waiting for him outside, holding signs and yelling.…
According to his findings, the death rate as of 2013 is about 40% lower than it stood in 1980. He raises a great point in his book, ‘Why are guns not regulated as much as cars?.’ He explains that there are several situations that could potentially lead to a significant increase in the amount of safety that the general public of the United States could receive. One of the many possibilities is requiring every individual that seeks to purchase a firearm to obtain a title and tag for it, as well as complete a training course, written test, practical test, meet specific health requirements, and prove that they have adequate liability insurance. These will help to not only increase safe living conditions for everyone, but also ensure that the amount of violence that occurs in the United States is limited and minimized.…
But we can make not only purchasing the weapons harder, But also the licensing process. Anyone can sit at home on their computer and file for a weapons permit. The problem with this is where handing out permits and licensee 's to just anyone who clears a background check, But just because whoever 's on the other end of that computer cleared the background check doesn’t mean they 're a good or stable person. I feel that anyone who wishes to obtain a permit or licenses should have to do so through both the ATF and the local police department. They should have to go through a thorough screening done by the local police department and given a psych evaluation test at the time of…
Following recent events (involving multiple mass shootings and attacks) many people think that the laws on guns in the United States of America need to be much tighter. I am one of these people. At the moment, as soon as you cross the US border, you have the legal right to purchase yourself a fire arm for personal protection, sport and (apparently, in some unfortunate cases) carrying out an unreasoned mass shooting. This document serves to explain some of the holes in the American legal system. While my foremost problem is not with guns themselves, it is a fact that they are, in the first place, an inherent danger and owning them, in the first instance, causes more trouble than they’re worth.…
The author believes that the reason why so many people are getting killed in US is because it’s too easy for someone to buy a gun in US. In 2012…
Sociology is the study of human behavior by looking at external influences that have happen to shaped an individual. Using a sociological perspective such as functionalism, conflict theory, helps to answer questions after a mass shooting. Such as why and what would drive someone to commit a mass shooting. Let’s start with the definition of a mass shooting as the murder of four or more victims in a signal episode (Mass Shooting in America). There are four types of perspectives that can help explain a mass shooting such as functionalism, feminism theory, conflict theory, and symbolic interaction.…
On the evening of October 1, 2017, a mass shooter, later identified as sixty-four-year-old Stephen Paddock of Nevada, opened fire on guests at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas. Country music artist Jason Aldean, who was performing at the time multiple rounds of shots were fired from Paddock’s room on the thirty-second floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel, described the scene as “beyond horrific.” When all was said and done, the event was one of the deadliest mass shootings in American history. Fifty-nine people were killed and another 546 were injured as a result of the multiple rounds of bullets fired and the resulting mass chaos. Among those who died were Paddock himself, who committed suicide in his hotel room while police were in pursuit.…
As the country with the largest stockpile of privately owned firearms, we aren’t doing much to prevent them from falling on the wrong hands. According to The Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act convicted felons, drug users and abusers, and mentally ill people are prohibited from purchasing or possessing firearms (FBI). But, convicted criminals and mentally ill people are acquiring firearms without any difficulty and are using them for the wrong reasons mainly because of weak laws that regulate the sale of firearms. Firearm sales in gun shows are not regulated by the FBI and buyers are not required to go through any kind of background checks at the time of purchase. According to a report by the UC Davis Violence Prevention Research Program titled “Inside Gun Shows: What Goes on When Everybody Thinks Nobody’s Watching”, it is reported that more than forty percent of gun sales occur privately without any regulations.…
Those who wish to purchase a gun should receive extensive searches that touch his or her’s criminal and mental health records. Lastly, gun laws should be uniform throughout America to prevent anyone from legally purchasing one. All of these components could be incorporated into American gun control, if the responsibility of selling firearms were placed in the hands of the federal government; furthermore, only federal facilities should have the right to sell guns. The likelihood of error from the federal government would be small, diminishing the amount of unqualified people legally obtaining a gun and reducing the incidence of gun violence in…
Jessica Gershon Professor Olalekan Afolabi Political Science 103 October 13, 2015 Do we have the right to bear arms? Gun violence in the United States continues to increase due to citizens being able to personally purchase guns. Different states obtain different laws. Some state laws necessitate citizens to acquire a permit.…
Guns Laws Must Be Changed The debate on new gun legislation at the federal and national levels is roaring topic in today’s American society. On one side of the argument, “gun lovers” constantly make mention of the second amendment and how the law protects the rights of Americans. On the other side of the argument, Americans expecting gun reforms argue new and clearer laws will be preferable for the future of America. Nevertheless, on both sides the truth of the matter is in the statistical evidence of gun violence and gun accessibility.…
With new technological advances improving guns in order to make them safe and more personalized to the person when they completely finish the permit process. Implementing technology could give us the possibility that guns that are safe locked with a fingerprint and cannot be unlocked without the same fingerprint, also using the same technology to seal gun safes and the storage of the gun safes must be somewhere not in plain sight and must be out of reach of small children if any are present in the home. Adding certain laws that would require people to unload any guns that are being stored in a home and keep ammo out of reach and also locked up. Imposing minimal sentencing for gun…
This quote is important because it proves that although weapons are considered dangerous in various locations of the world, they are not the prime factor of initiating crime. Instead, crime occurs when firearms arrive in the wrong hands and used for the wrong purposes. As human beings, weapons are taught as dangerous and the primary cause of many incidents. In reality, this is false, conventional beliefs state that these firearms are dangerous and all individuals begin to believe this statement. Due to accepting the statements that conventional belief lays out, individuals expose themselves to worse circumstances.…