Politics of the United States

Everyone used them, from the British redcoats to the farmer who shot deer and turkeys to feed his family with. Thirdly, guns are inanimate objects. A gun looking scary does not inherently make it dangerous. The SAFE act, a gun control law in New York State focuses mainly on ascetics and features(Yonkunas). A gun cannot pull its own trigger. It needs the input of a human being. “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people” (“Davis”). Also some uneducated people might say that AR-15 has the words…

"A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of the free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed" (Vernick and Teret). These are the core of what America was founded upon. Furthermore, the Kansas constitution dictates that the state militia is composed of "All able bodied citizens between the ages of 21 and 45 years" (Vernick and Teret). The second amendment is one of the defining…

they know how crazy people can get with guns. Gun crime is just to spiral out of control to the point of no return. People are dying all across the United States because…

"It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament with abandoning the whole great adventure of building a connective peace system."-Arthur Henderson. In the United States, the people have always been given the right to bear arms and the law protects that right for them. America needs to see the positive and negative effects of disarmament. Disarmament can bring more reliability on our safety such as less murders, robberies, and crimes. It could also be the downfall of our…

Being a target of a shooting can change someone’s life dramatically. Two videos presented at our Criminal Justice: Theory in Practice class depict enormous bravery and determination of police officers in the United States. In the first video, female police officer observed suspicious looking vehicle with three young men inside. After stopping the car the officer was shot two times around her ear and left side near the chest area. Bleeding from the wounded areas nor extreme pain did not stop her…

before turning the guns and proceeding to take their own lives.1 This was the school shooting that changed everything. It opened people's eyes to possibilities of murder-suicides happening in schools. It didn’t just affect their little town or even the state of Colorado, it prompted national debate and made everyone think twice about simply taking their daily trip to pick up their kids from school. No one knew how to react in the moment or who else they could put the blame on. The school…

improve gun violence? The political and social debate over the question of how much gun control is appropriate has been an extremely polarized one for several decades. The term gun control as it is used in the United States refers to any action taken my the federal government or by the state or local governments to regulate, through legislation, the sale, purchase, safety, and use of handguns and other types of firearms by individual citizens. Discussions on the topic tend to revolve around…

cannot be the case for Lee Boyd Malvo, one of the two people responsible for the D.C. Sniper Attacks. The D.C. sniper case, also known as the Beltway sniper attacks, were a stretch of organized shootings that occurred over a three week period in the states of Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Colombia. Ten deaths and three injuries were the products of these shootings, but on October 24, 2002, Lee Boyd Malvo and his “mentor,” John Allen Muhammad, were found and arrested ending their terror…

Nathan Dunlap was a 19 year old African American male from Aurora, Colorado. Dunlap grew up in a single parent home with his mother, Carol Dunlap. Ms. Dunlap suffered from a bipolar disorder, that caused her to have unpredictable mood swings and hypersexual behavior. When having a bipolar episode she would often sexually and physically abuse Nathan and his sister Adinea. On December 14, 1993, Dunlap went into the local Chuck E. Cheese Pizzeria, where he once worked. He sat around for a few…

Would it be good to have guns on school grounds? If you answered ¨yes¨ then you should reconsider. Why would you let a teacher bring a weapon on school grounds? Knowing full well that they could possibly kill at ten or more students? It would be another Columbine Massacre! So would you have kids hurt or even murdered because you let a teacher bring a gun to your school? This is gun law to let teachers bring guns to and in school grounds is why people die on the . One of my many reasons is why…