Gun politics in the United States

The general argument made by author Paul Waldman in work “The Case For Banning Guns”, is that guns are pretty much the reason for all the murders, suicides, and mass shootings. And that if guns were banned our society would be better off. More specifically, Waldman argues that he believes guns should be banned. He states that he understands the many reasons gun owners have for not wanting the weapons to be banned. These reasons are valid such as uses for self defense, hunting, or the weapon…

Gangster archetypes: the gangster, the best friend, the canarian, the moll, the mother are some of the key factors that a gangster movie is made out of. This is, according to Hughes, something that any gangster film has to have in order to be a gangster film (215). All these archetypes are carefully defined and are not prone to significant changes which could be regarded as being in sync with the changes in the society. Still, some of thearchetypes did get some alterations, and most visably did…

Penalty in the Case of the Parkland Shooter With the recent events in Parkland, Florida being plastered on the news at all hours of the day, there are many discussions taking place about the future of gun control. Getting less attention is the fact that Florida is one of the thirty-four states that allows for the execution of the perpetrators of heinous crimes (Evans 1). With the shooter, Nikolas Cruz, being an adult, the death penalty is on the table. This has brought the debate over the…

Banning Guns” is that instead of trying to ban all of the guns in the world, we should try using different methods to reduce the amount of harm weapons sometime cause. There are roughly 300 million guns in this country, which means there is nearly one for every man, woman, and child. With about 300 million guns in circulation, it would be nearly impossible to ban all of the weapons in this country. The topic of banning guns is a very controversial topic because not everyone who owns a gun is…

According to the American Library Association 11,300 books have been challenged since 1982. The school board has banned many books for no reason. The novel The House on Mango Street is an example of one of these many banned books. The TUSD board banned this book because it “promotes the overthrow of the US government, promotes resentment to a race or class of people, and is designed primarily for one ethnic group.” Clearly you can tell that the school board banned this book without doing their…

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but can a picture save a whole nation from destruction? There is approximately 250,000 words in the english language. But it is not about how many you have learned or how big of words you know, instead, it is about how you put them together and how you convey them. Despite Winston Churchill’s lack of intention in education, through persuasive delivery and unparalleled charisma, he turned the tides of a war using only words. Thus, he is one of the…

relationships because of their lack of awareness. According to the “International Hunter Education Association”, around 1000 people are killed accidently by hunters and just under a 100 of those accidents leads to the death of the target. Studies state that unlike other kinds of recreation, hunting injuries will most likely lead to death of others who are not only hunters but also innocent people. One example of hunting accidents in Lebanon is Karim Sabah Baz’s and eighteen-year-old Lebanese kid…

our country becoming more invaded with cities, if there was no hunting, these animals would have to come into the city to get more habitat. With hunters being around, we have to pay for our licenses, like deer, elk , small game, fur bear, bear , state waterfowl stamp and federal waterfowl stamps each and every year. People who don't hunt will say hunters are destroying the environment and killing harmless animals, but all of the money collected from hunting licenses goes to conservation to…

Albert Einstein once said, “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”. Sandy Hook, Charleston, Oregon, Savannah, and San Bernardino all have one thing in common. They are all connected by the fact that mass shooting has occurred in their area. They are now on a long list of places that are traumatized and fearful of the future. These cities will always be defined as that place that has had a mass shooting. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has…

right of the citizens of the United States of America to keep and bear arms. This amendment was adopted on December 15, 1791 and was viewed as a positive amendment within the Bill of Rights. Although in recent debates, this amendment has been questioned on whether it is suitable for the welling being of American citizens; creating the regulation of guns, which is also known as gun control. Hugh LaFollette considers multiple arguments in analyzing the subject matter on gun control, one being “The…