1968

The civil rights museum is magnificent. I love the fact the museum preserved the outside exactly the way it looked in April, 1968. There were cars parked in front of the motel to give a feel as if we were there on the day of his assassination and a wreath was placed where Dr. King was shot. When we got inside the museum there were posted scenes of slavery from the time it began to the time it ended. The museum was very organized with heavy security. In today’s society, I guess having enough…

Between the years 2000 and 2013 the amount of deaths by guns in America exceeded the amount of deaths caused by AIDS, drugs, wars, and terrorism combined. Even more shocking than this statistic is how unique this issue is to the United States. In the United States there are 29.7 homicides for every 1 million people. Switzerland, with the second highest rate in the world, has only 7.7. It is not that Americans are just more violent individuals, in fact the US ranks far below first for crimes…

The Effect that Gun Violence has on our Culture Gun violence is a regular occurrence in our culture. This act of violence appears in our homes, schools, churches, and places of business. Firearms have killed more people than terrorism over the past decade. The topic of gun violence and gun control have sparked many debates on how strict one should be when doing background checks on the people who want to own a gun. There has also been a debate on mental illness and the relationship it has…

It seems that today we can not get through a single news cycle with out hearing “Shooting in ”. In the two years since the horrific mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT, and over 82,000 Americans have died due to gun violence but little to zero action has been taken to prevent gun violence. This is a clear failure of the system of gun regulation. No person should have to live in fear of gun violence. To understand the problem of gun violence and create a policy solution…

One of the biggest advocates of protecting the second amendment is the National Rifle Association. The Encyclopedia of Interest Groups and Lobbyist in the United States reports that the NRA consists of over 3 million members nationwide (pg. 532) The NRA was founded in 1871 with the purpose of training the National Guard to be sharpshooters as well teaching its other members how to shoot (pg. 532). The first president of the organization was one of the Civil War Generals of the Union, Ambrose…

Thomas Jefferson stated, “That government is best which governs the least...” The Progressive movement theorist may not have agreed with Jefferson on that contention. The Progressive movement was a concern with reform. Which reforms? Short answer all of them; Progressive’s championed women’s suffrage, racial equality, worker rights, corporate greed, and political corruption. Progressives call for active governmental intervention to establish laws, ordinances and policies as corrective measures.…

When our founding fathers outlined how this nation would function in the form of the Constitution, they also guaranteed every citizen the same basic liberties. The Bill of Rights, the ten original amendments to the Constitution, each one stating its own freedoms. One of these, the second, protected the right of the people to defend themselves, and the nation. "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of people to keep and bear arms, shall not be…

Furthermore, an even more critical deficiency of the Brady Bill is that it simply involves officially authorized retail sales. However, criminals develop various methods in obtaining weapons short of going through the procedure delegated by the Brady Bill, which declares that anyone desiring to obtain a firearm be required to wait five days for a background check to be concluded. By signifying through definition, a criminal is someone who breaks the law. Two obvious examples are theft and black…

“I think Donald just criticized me for preparing for this debate. And, yes, I did. You know what else I prepared for? I prepared to be president.” Hillary Clinton said during the first presidential debate. The election of 2016 will not be forgotten anytime soon. With a surprising turn of events of Donald Trump somehow winning. Millions of American citizens are in anguish with these results. The Best Man by Gore Vidal, November by David Mamet, All the Way by Robert Schenkkan, and Crucible by…

Gun Control: Killer or Savior? In 2013, firearms committed 69% of all homicides according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s crime report “Crime in the United States 2013: Expanded Homicide Data Table 9.” Most Americans respond to this fact with the same reaction, rage, but two vastly different solutions are suggested to fix this problem. Some suggest that there be greater restrictions on gun ownership and that gun availability should be lessened. However, others are convinced gun…