“YOU'RE FIRED!” Biography.com Editors (2015) Donald John Trump was born in Queens, New York on June 14, 1946. Raised in a family of five he was the fourth child to Frederick and Mary Trump. Not always being the money hungry business man we know him as today, Trump grew up in a somewhat blue collar family. If you could mentally create Donald Trump as a child the speculations you may imagine would more than likely be relatively correct. Throughout Trumps childhood he was always an energetic,…
Editorial Board written for CentralMain.com, The Editorial Board states how conservatives are the ones that hold the key in order to make any changes with the gun control laws, they also go on about how Americans should stop throwing the same old arguments at each other and actually do something…
Should Our Right to Bear Arms Be Revoked? “A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed”, the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution. Now we ask the questions, do guns’ kill people or do people kill people? Should our right to bear arms be revoked because an individual makes an unacceptable decision? Is it right that all people be forced to ‘gun control’ because of one person’s…
Since the beginning of the United States there has always been the big two, Anti Gun Control and Gun Control. They have battled head to head in the court of law making for some of the biggest showdowns of the last few centries. For some reason many people are against the ownership of guns, whether they believe it would make the community safer or they are just scared of them in general. On the other hand others are very enthusiastic of the right to own guns and believe that putting guns in…
A girl by the name of Leslie Marmon Silko was born in Albuquerque in 1948. She was born in a time where violence was a huge factor in her life. In 2000, Leslie wrote an essay titled “In the Combat Zone”. She wrote this essay to let women know that the use of guns for self-defense not just against strangers, but also rapists and killers really is okay. All people, but mostly women, need to be able to defend themselves and not let anyone take advantage of them. In her essay, Leslie brings up many…
Mass Shootings In the United States of America shootings are becoming more frequent in our day-to-day life. Mass shootings are not a new thing in this country it has been going on since the early 80’s. In the last sixteen years there have been seven major shooting in the U.S. killing over 150 people and injuring 180 more. The FBI states every town for gun safety development an analysis of mass shootings that took place between January 2009 and July 2015. There have been 133 mass shootings in…
the gunman from potentially killing many more innocent people. Another interesting example found by Eugene Volokh talks about a guy that opened fire in a Philadelphia Barber Shop. “Another man with a concealed-carry permit then shot the shooter (The Washington Post). The man with the concealed-carry permit was able to stop the shooter from hurting anyone else. Each of these stories are great examples of how legally owning a gun is extremely helpful when needed for protection. With gun control,…
try to understand how we can stop school shootings. This piece of an article from the U.S. Supreme Court can help explain the federal laws currently in effect today. “The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld some firearms restrictions, such as bans on concealed weapons and the possession of certain types of weapons, as well as prohibitions on the sale of guns to certain categories of people. ‘The Gun Control Act of 1968’ prohibits individuals under eighteen years of age, convicted criminals, the…
They argue that the State regulated militias are the National Guard units found all over the United States. The Supreme Court has ruled contrary to this claim. In the course of recent years, support for firearm control has diminished significantly and contentions mounted by defenders of the privilege to remain battle…
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