Politics of the United States

population by convincing them that guns are scary and are murder weapons, they do the same things with knives. For example, if a civilian buys a Ka-bar knife (standard marine issue), it is no different than a kitchen knife. Getting a little deeper on the subject, a person could just as easily commit a crime such as murder with a kitchen knife as with the knife previously stated, so are people going to ban kitchen knives too? Of course not, so why ban other knives? Why ban guns? If we ban guns,…

Eddie Benton Banai, George Mitchell, Dennis Banks, and Clyde Bellecourt...AIM's targets included…the federal government, with whom it had a long list of grievances” (Linder). AIM was formed “as a Native American response to white hegemony in the United States” (American). There was one main event that led to Leonard Peltier’s predicament. “In February 1973, AIM instigated a seventy-one day takeover of the site of a famous 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee, South Dakota” (Linder). For the next two…

The actions of gun activists who wish to not have the AR-15 banned are constitutional, because the constitution says we have a right to bear arms in the name of protecting ourselves. The AR-15 is a highly controversial gun which has led to several deaths as a result of misuse of the weapon. It is an extremely sad reality that there are so many lives lost, when it comes to what is supposed to be something used for protection. The AR-15 has been used in several shootings, examples being the Aurora…

In New York City, a homeless man named Hugo Alfredo Tale-Yax was stabbed several times by a mugger but his unmoving body didn’t catch anybody's attention. The way how this happened was that the mugger was trying to rob a lady but the good willing samaritan Tale-Yax, tried to stop the robbery but instead he was stabbed and bled to death. When the lady was there she left the homeless man before he had collapsed. The lady seems to be yet unidentified. 20 eyewitnesses passed by and just ignored him…

William J. Clinton announced his speech, “Remarks to the Convocation of the Church of God in Christ” in the place where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his last sermon. During his speech he stresses about the misused freedom by America, and uses many methods to help express the importance of effective crime legislation and changing America. The main methods he applies in his speech are repetition, anecdotes, and statistics. Clinton starts off his speech using repetition of saying, “You did a good…

accident but all of a sudden he took out a gun and started shooting people. He killed twenty three people and wounded twenty seven people. George carry 9mm Glock 17 pistol and 9mm Ruger P89 pistol (Citation). This was the third deadliest massacre in United States. It did not occur in school or college; it occurred in a restaurant. That day was a national boss’s day and the restaurant was crowded. George took advantage of that and broke into the restaurant and kill a lot of people and few of the…

prove this, handguns in the UK have been banned since 1998 and the murders have actually rose in numbers. For this reason I think gun control laws would not stop criminals from getting guns There’s still murder in countries where guns are banned. The United Kingdom banned handguns after a man shot 16 elementary students and then shot himself. UK’s homicide rates before, during, and…

Moorhouse concludes this in his study on the relation between gun control and crime rates, “The findings of this study that gun control is ineffective in reducing crime rates are consistent with the vast majority of other studies that use state data” (Moorhouse). This does not mean gun control is ineffective though. The gun control laws in America are proven to be ineffective in reducing crime rates, but not necessarily because they are ineffective. He says the current laws are not working…

This article called ¨The facts on mass shootings in the United States¨ provided by http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2017/nov/08/facts-mass-shootings-united-states/ states that ¨Yes. Semi-automatic rifles similar to the AR-15 have been used in high-profile and deadly mass shootings over the years¨. This evidence shows that semi-automatic rifles mass shootings…

Airsoft is better than paintball Have you ever played airsoft? Well you should. Airsoft is an intense activity were you shoot other people with small projectiles using replicas of real guns. It can be a very intense sport. You can use and/or practice military routines. Airsoft is better than paintball because it's more realistic, it's safer than paintball,and it costs less. Airsoft guns are replicated after real guns. Airsoft guns are replicated after multiple kinds of guns. They replicate guns…