Ever since the firearm has become readily available to the public its deadly potential as a weapon capable of swiftly ending a human life has been realized. One of the more commonly produced and available firearms, the Glock 17 is one such firearm that with its light weight, large magazine size and easy manufacture find it commonly in law enforcement (Glock). One of the more common weapons used today; its accuracy, power, and efficiency make it especially deadly if found in the hands of a violent shooter. Anyone that can acquire a weapon like this can easily be a force to be reckoned with, and in history society has seen the brutal power firearms can unleash. It has been made very clear that there needs to be a way to update the 2nd Amendment
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There would be no opening for biases or emotional affiliation and it allowed us to work equally and collaboratively on something that we could all generally agree on. We had brought up a list of potential research topics to write on, as mentioned before I suggested that we write on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but for two reasons this was decided against. The first was the aforementioned biases, given I am someone of the Jewish faith that has grown in a somewhat extreme Zionist background, and that I would have found it more interesting than my colleagues simply because of that affiliation. The second reason is that another group in our classroom had already started work on this, and given our small numbers (There are only four groups in each classroom), our team’s consensus was that it would be better to have our focuses elsewhere, eventually settling on the gun control …show more content…
For Chau’s section, she focused on a multitude of Supreme Court Cases, while Nadal’s would be news reports and releases regarding shootings and their repercussions and so on and so forth. Mine, mainly, looked into the views of manufacturers, historical developments and federal actions to tie with the court cases and mass shootings also discussed. This allowed the design of the paper to network itself as to develop a solution that would conclude in deciding that, yes, the 2nd Amendment does need to be updated to accommodate for more modern firearms. While there were a handful of grammatical and syntax errors it was capable of easily being reworked and in the end created a rather solid paper in
There would be no opening for biases or emotional affiliation and it allowed us to work equally and collaboratively on something that we could all generally agree on. We had brought up a list of potential research topics to write on, as mentioned before I suggested that we write on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but for two reasons this was decided against. The first was the aforementioned biases, given I am someone of the Jewish faith that has grown in a somewhat extreme Zionist background, and that I would have found it more interesting than my colleagues simply because of that affiliation. The second reason is that another group in our classroom had already started work on this, and given our small numbers (There are only four groups in each classroom), our team’s consensus was that it would be better to have our focuses elsewhere, eventually settling on the gun control …show more content…
For Chau’s section, she focused on a multitude of Supreme Court Cases, while Nadal’s would be news reports and releases regarding shootings and their repercussions and so on and so forth. Mine, mainly, looked into the views of manufacturers, historical developments and federal actions to tie with the court cases and mass shootings also discussed. This allowed the design of the paper to network itself as to develop a solution that would conclude in deciding that, yes, the 2nd Amendment does need to be updated to accommodate for more modern firearms. While there were a handful of grammatical and syntax errors it was capable of easily being reworked and in the end created a rather solid paper in