Gabrielle Giffords

Should we have gun laws,that is the real question.Many say no but have you really looked into the other details about it.We should have gun laws. Others think we should have any gun laws. “Nowhere is the right to bear arms explained further, and throughout the history of the country, the right of the individual to have guns has been implied, allowing for state and local governments to adopt gun restrictions“(New York.) If we didn’t have gun laws we could have bad people buying guns that…

In today's world there is a big debate on what we should do with guns. Some think we should ban guns, or limit gun possession. Others think we should keep our guns, after all, we have the Second Amendment. But i believe there is another option, I think there is a link between the mass shootings and mental disabilities and diseases, and if that’s true, we should worry about that. Mass shootings since Columbine High School: April 1999 - Two teenage students shot and killed 12 classmates and a…

background checks on gun purchase will aid in the efforts to keep guns from the ownership of people who are not supposed to own them. A group known as Americans for Responsible Solutions, with support from the former United States Representative Gabrielle Giffords together with Mark Kelly, her astronaut husband, supports…

Obama delivered this speech at the memorial service for the victims of the shooting in Tucson, Arizona on January 8, 2012. This shooting killed six Americans and injured thirteen: one of the injured being congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (Aufses). Obama’s speech is not intended as an emotionless way to communicate information but rather to comfort the people touched by the event, as well as to guide them in how to handle their sorrow. He is able to create such an effective jeremiad…

anymore people. The San Bernardino terrorist attack made Barack Obama push for harder restrictions on gun control. He has pushed for harder gun control since the first really big shooting on January 8th, 2011 which harmed U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords. Once it was announced that the was launching a new way for gun control sales went soaring up. The gun sales have been so high that the government should not get rid of guns. It is a fact that every time there is a mass shooting in any…

What is the legal standard to determine if a defendant is competent to stand trial? Competency to stand trial (CST) came about to light in the U.S. Supreme Court case Dusky v. United State which established that in order for a defendant to be tried that they have must have sufficient present ability to consult with their lawyer with a reasonable degree of rational understanding and factual understanding of the proceedings against him (Dusky v. United States, 1960). Kruh and Grisso (2009)…

The Gun Control Act of 1968 prohibited the sale of guns to several types of individuals consisting of minors, people with criminal records, disabled, illegal aliens, dishonorably discharged military personnel and others. In 1993 the Act was changed by the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act. This Act said that background checks for all unlicensed carriers had to be done before they could purchase any firearms from a licensed dealer. However, there has been discussion that there is a “gun show…

The death penalty or sometimes referred to as execution is a government sanctioned punishments. If incarcerated individuals are sentenced to this punishment they will be facing death. There have been many innocent individuals that have been sentenced with the death penalty, due to false evidence. Some crimes include terrorism, first-degree murder, and espionage, etc. When the United States population is faced with choosing in favor of or against the death penalty, majorities have chosen to be in…

Lyndee Fletcher who wrote the article originally for Movieguide.org lists 14 mass murderers and ends each summary by stating their level of involvement with violent video games. One summary listed states, “Jared Lee Lougher, Tucson, who shot Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killed six others in Tucson in January 2011, was both mentally ill and a video gamer.” This article does highlight some important information that came out of a study into violent video games long term…

When the founding fathers of the United States wrote the Constitution, they added the Bill of Rights which is a set of the first the ten amendments of to the Constitution. The second of these amendments, states that "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." (U.S Const. Amend II). Particularly, this amendment is interpreted in many ways; some pro gun-control groups say only militias are…