Federal Assault Weapons Ban

Devastating, frightening and incomprehensible, school shootings are hardly new to the United States of America. Statistics gathered from just ten school shootings, account for one hundred and thirty-three dead and one hundred and forty-two injured, representing the work product of America’s ten deadliest school shooters. To qualify as one of the ten deadliest, the shooter must have struck a minimum of ten individuals and caused at least five deaths. Yet, the question remains, what type of person…

The movement to ban alcohol began as early as 1873 where religious organization like the Women’s Christian Temperance Union disliked it and had a negative view on the liquid. These organization gave speeches, advertised the movement, they held public demonstrations at…

Running for office is difficult task. Candidates have to deal with tasks such as finding money to run their campaign, convincing the public they will be able to make a difference, and incorporating the public’s views into their campaigns. Throughout their campaign, candidates are influenced by extra-constitutional actors, such as the media, public opinion, interest groups, and political parties. In the election of governor in Massachusetts this year, it can be seen that all of these…

More Highly Regulated Gun Control is an Effective Method of Reducing Crime Gun control generally refers to laws or policies that regulate the manufacture, sale, transfer, possession, modification, or use of firearms. The actual definition of gun control varies greatly around the world, however, this is the most Americanized and generalized definition that I’ll stick with. Even though illegal gun trafficking is undoubtedly tied to juvenile gun violence and other crimes like drug dealing and gang…

Georgia the Supreme Court rules 7-2 that the crime of rape is unconstitutional. The people in this court case was Coker who had escaped prison where he was serving for multiple different sentences of murder, rape, kidnapping and for aggravated assault. Coker was also committed more crimes of rape, kidnapping and armed robbery which the state of Georgia sentenced him to death and he appealed. In this case there were multiple victims because had done multiple crimes, but there was one couple,…

should be mandated on individuals with great anger or high fantasies of violent revenge, as they are vulnerable to their ego. Introduction an Framing the Issue Gun control entails the set of regulations in the manufacture, usage, and possession of weapons by noncombatants (R, 2013). In this paper, we examine the campaign on gun control versus mental illness. To ensure the safety of individuals, the Government sets various measures to control the ownership and usage of the firearms; this has led…

Unfortunately, some companies have mismanaged their greatest asset—their brands. This is what befell the popular Snapple brand almost as soon as Quaker Oats bought the beverage marketer for $1.7 billion in 1994. Snapple had become a hit through powerful grassroots marketing and distribution through small outlets and convenience stores. Analysts said that because Quaker did not understand the brand’s appeal, it made the mistake of changing the ads and the distribution. Snapple lost so much…