National Firearms Act

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Two wrongs don’t make a Right: Analyzing a Documentary Oklahoma City by Barak Goodman, based on the events leading up to deaths of hundreds of Americans by a domestic terrorist, Timothy McVeigh and the ensuing of capital punishment on him. The documentary Includes interviews of Timothy McVeigh and families and friends of the Victims who lost their lives in the Oklahoma City Federal Building bombing in 1995. Timothy McVeigh Killed 168 people and injured over 500. In the documentary Oklahoma city…

writer Khaled Beydoun argues that the shooting in Las Vegas on October 1st demonstrates how people in America view the act of terrorism when it comes to race and religion. Despite how the shooter, Stephen Paddock, was armed with ten rifles, and the large scale of causalities, Sherriff Joe Lombardo immediately rejected that the crime has any relation to terrorism, categorizing it as an act by an individual isolated from any ideological motivations. This is only one of the many cases of mass…

Freedom and Firearms Gun laws create a platform for debate. Some people believe that we should take away all guns, and other people believe that everyone should have the ability to obtain a gun without a waiting period. Gun laws do not affect the criminals that they were intended to affect. In the United States, the Constitution states, “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” (James…

Gun Free Schools, students would be too afraid of their peers with firearms to be able to speak a controversial or disagreeable opinion (Students for Gun Free Schools 158). However, concealed handguns would not detract from a healthy learning environment. The whole point of carrying a concealed weapon is so that no one knows it is on your person, meaning students wouldn’t even realize they’re sitting next to someone with a firearm (Students for Concealed Carry on Campus 170). This is the same in…

On May 20, 1998, Kipland Kinkel went on a shooting rampage at Thurstone High School. After the shooting spree Kipland was arrested and convicted of four counts of murder and twenty-six attempted counts of murder, with a total sentence time of 111 years and eight months. Four years into the 111-year sentence, the attorneys of Kipland Kinkel appealed the initial sentencing. In the “State of Oregon v. Kipland Philip Kinkel,” Judge Haselton offers information on the original trial, the grounds of…

instead, removes guns from law-abiding citizens thereby inhibiting their ability of self-protection. “Guns don’t kill people. People kill people” (Sub tropic Productions LLC). Gun control laws will not prevent evil people from committing homicidal acts upon the innocent. Subsequently, restrictive gun control…

the number of people who would have been killed could have been worse had the civilians carrying guns had not been around. According to Hunter, a fight against those bearing firearms is like people are trying to beat the point that led to the enacting of the second amendment since the amendment allow citizens to possess firearms and use them for self-defense. Those in support or agreement with the author’s position on this matter also argue that violence can be caused by using any weapon and…

Point blank, and the gun is fired. Aimed at the other person, whose hands shake with rage, or is it fear? Ambulances and hospital doctors go sporadic, only mere moments to save a person’s life. A school shooter takes the life of multiple students and then attempts his own. All of this could have been solved if someone was there to prevent the shooter. although in a moments heat there is not going to be officers, sometimes a vigilantly must help others. Someone that could save a life are those…

overcome by any military power, foreign or domestic. A good example of where civilians result in them having to protect themselves is given by listverse, “If the five branches of the US military were beaten by, say, a nuclear holocaust, the only national defense left would be the civilians themselves. Any subsequent military invasion—probably armed with AK-47 variants—would find it very easy to overrun civilians armed only with lever, bolt, and pump action weapons.” Now I know that all five…