Chekhov's gun

Force or Guns Are Not Needed All the Time Twelve year old Tamir Rice was playing around in the park with his black BB gun and next thing he knows he is shot. The last thing he sees is his sister running to him, screaming. Then there was Antonio Martinez, who was twenty one years old and had Down syndrome was given no warning when he was pepper sprayed, and tackled to the ground for seeming suspicious. While it might be necessary to use force to apprehend a suspect in a wrong doing, it is not…

Guns are not a weapon, they are a tool. Many people around the world believe in the saying that “Guns kill people” for the simple fact that when a human pulls the trigger on the gun it can kill someone but if you think about what was just said “people kill people.” Guns are a tool that help everyone feel safe and at ease. In the stories, “ Second Inaugural Address” by Abraham Lincoln, “ What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” by Frederick Douglass, and “Runagate Runagate” by Robert Hayden…

teachers are allowed an advantage in protecting the kids they are responsible for? Criminals that shoot up schools are cowards and have no common regard for human life. Gun control is an overwhelming debate in this day and age, people believe that guns kill people when in reality it is people that kill people. People are so afraid of guns that they take them out of the hands of everyone they can, including teachers who have the ability to stop a huge amount of heartache and death. Which in…

Civil War Weapons Throughout the Civil War, many weapons were used. The Civil War marked an era of advancements in both weapons and technology. Guns made the Civil War as brutal as it is and caused the deaths of thousands of Americans, but without them many problems would have arisen. Crime would be everywhere on the streets and slavery would still exist. The Civil War shaped our country for the better, and made us the great nation that we are. Before the war, soldiers had used muskets to…

Don't try to make yourself believe in something that didn't happen. For example in the play " twelve angry men" Reginald Rose include these two witnesses with reasonable doubt. There was an old woman and old man who made themselves believe in things they didn't actually see. First the play mentioned the old man in scene one. In this scene it states why the old man made himself believe in what he saw and heard. The old man believes he saw the young boy run fast down the hall. During the young…

watched me as I took the rifle and I walked closer to the crazy old dog. This was the moment that I could either prove my children wrong or it was the time that I would miss. I concentrated on the barrell, slowing pulling the trigger. I brought the gun to my shoulder and shot. Crack! I saw Tim flop over, lying there…

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 how to cock the gun. We started on the long and tiring journey ahead of us. It was a wet morning with a bit of rain the last night and dew.…

Have you ever heard about child soldiers? if you haven't continue to read well these children fought in the war you probably never would think wait a child fought for me? That's right a pour child the age of 10, 12,13,14...fought for someone in the war can you imagine that. There life may be ruined because the way they had to live they were drugged, someone would shoot someone in front of their faces if that wasn’t bad enough if they didn’t want to kill someone they would be shot and they would…

Unifying Japan The United States implies unity, as a positive aspect of people’s lives, however in history the act of unifying individuals and places was not always done or perceived as positive. Japan exhibited a very suitable example of this. From the 1500s to the 1800s, Japan started to develop a central government. After years of civil war and instability through its territory, the shogun, a military general, began to enforce various edicts in an attempt to ensure unity and growth. These…

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 psychological…