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“There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period” (Ted Nugent). This quote reflects on the recent mass shootings where firearms were unfortunately placed in the wrong hands. As of December 6, 2015, 355 mass shootings have occurred in the United States. Following every shooting is the devastation and surprise…

Metropolitan Police website, the definition of a Taser is stated as “a less lethal single shot weapon designed to temporarily incapacitate a suspect through the use of an electric current, similar in size to a pistol.” A most heard of Taser gun is the X26 Taser gun. This Taser gun uses an electrical current which interferes with the body’s neuromuscular system. As stated on the same website, this object…

bullet is call ballistic fingerprinting. There are two types of strations, class characteristics and individual characteristics. Class characteristics are shared by on type of gun and manufacture, for example a colt peacemaker has 6 lands and grooves left-hand twist. The individual characteristics are specific to the individual gun, for example any imperfections of the lands and grooves caused by the tool 's use in the rifling process or normal wear of the bore. There are many types of barrels…

This Political Science journey has been something else. This semester alone has been one for the books. The one and only Political Science class I took this semester was Intro to Public Policy. There was a multitude of things I took away from this class. In this essay, I am going to explore the entire semester of being in Public Policy. I plan on going through the good, the bad, and the ugly, so buckle up! To begin, I’d like to start with my expectations from this class coming into the semester.…

Personal Narrative “Moments of Decision” “Thwack,” is the noise I heard as the arrow pierces the flesh of the big monster deer I just took a shot at. This day was one of the best decisions of my life to this day. If I wouldn’t have chosen to go on my very first bow hunt, I would have never been hooked on the sport that I love. Hunting is special to me. It is time alone with my dad and friends and I would have never been a part of until the day I made the decision to leave the small town of…

Gun Control On October 3, 2017 "New York Times" Associate Professor of Purdue University and New York Times best-selling essay collection Bad Feminist Ms. Roxane Gay argues that it's time to address concerns of gun control. Gay makes her case after the incident of the Las Vegas shooting. Gay describes in short account of who Stephen Paddock the Las Vegas shooting is, however, goes into great detail regarding the guns that were in his position. Gay also claims that gun stores should have…

A Good Man Is Hard To Find. In the beginning of the story the grandmother was very tense and judgmental. She tried convincing everyone why it wasn’t safe to go on the road trip but she still continued to tag along anyways. The grandmother seemed to not have the best relationship with her grandkids in the story. She was very worried and controlling when it came to going to a town with a crazy murderer on the loose. So the grandmother went along with everybody on their road trip to Florida. In…

plain lazy. On the other hand, granted there are people who really cannot work, but the majority of people are lazy and choose not to work. I think the media does shape our society in the way gun violence is portrayed, what stories about border control are shared, and how racism is viewed. Media shapes the way gun violence is portrayed. I remember on the 21st day of August in 2006 there was a shooting on the…

he article I picked was the columbine catastrophe: it is an article that Andrew Gumbel (2009) will always remember it was the principal consistently shooting on a school grounds. On April 20, 1999, two teens went on a shooting binge at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, slaughtering 13 individuals and injuring more than 20 others before turning their firearms on themselves and committing suicide (Gumbel, 2009). The crime was the most exceedingly terrible high school shooting in U.S.…

depression, stemming from his consistent romantic failure as documented in his journal. Harris’ journal, available to be read online in full, contains much exposition on his plans for the massacre. By the time of the shooting, he and Klebold owned four guns between…