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Machine Guns and Warfare

employ the use of the new technology in the battle of Petersburg in Virginia(Bellis 2003). Interestingly enough, the inventor of ...

Policing and the Useful Tool of Taser Guns

or heart attack. The use of the stun gun might add to the problem. However, studies on these guns suggest that they are not quite ...

Using Mass Media to Argue for Gun Control

incidence of fire breaking out during operations. In one of ABCs 20/20 episodes in 1998, the audience was cautioned that this ha...

Gun Crime 'Getting Tough' Laws and Their Lack of Success

checks and a five-day waiting period before purchasing a gun (Miller, 2005). The Clinton administration was encouraged by the pas...

Opposing Gun Control

to blame for crimes involving guns, the number of crimes committed would have increased at the same rate. Mathematical calculatio...

'My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun' by Emily Dickinson

As a gun, Dickinson speaks for "Him" (line 7) and the Mountains echo the sound of her fire. Paula Bennett comments that "Whatever ...

Liberals and Conservatives, Pro and Con

varies considerably from the twentieth century definition quoted above. Regulation, of course, is typically implemented by govern...

Political Environment of Gun Control

In six pages this paper discusses gun control in terms of legislation and politics with the positions of 2000 presidential candida...

An Analysis of a Gun Control Article

policy has followed. They discuss each law in more detail, relating it to the historical events that propelled each piece of legis...

Gun Control's Advantages and Disadvantages

school shootings that often seem to take place, even on just recently where a young child took a gun to an after school program an...

Overview of Glock Firearms

such, these unique factors earned the newly introduced GLOCK the reputation of being "faster, simpler and safer to use than any ot...

Arming Airline Pilots

the cockpit with lethal force" (Up in arms, 2002, p. 3). There is a great deal of evidence to support Luckeys assessment, as liber...

Zero Tolerance Policies - Do They Work?

in the Gun-Free School Act (McAndrews, 2001; McCune, 2000). McAndrews (2001) reported that policies were passed by state legislat...

Burglary Rates and the Issue of Gun Ownership

In 2005, 3,984 burglaries were committed in the municipality. This translates to a rate of 0.011 burglaries per citizen (Nemerov,...

Gun Control: Rights

citizen who often needs a gun to protect himself from the very criminal element of society who will always have access to firearms...

Youth Gun Violence in Great Britain and its Causes

goes on and on and on, but the results are always the same (Jasper). Black crime is growing, and is becoming an increasingly sign...

Twenty First Century Gun Control

gun control is that the existence, or presence, of guns in a private citizens home leads to more violence. Statistics have often i...

Gun Control, Pro and Con

weapons in such crimes as drive-by shootings, minor altercations and myriad other random acts of violence. With the ongoing gun c...

Analysis of 3 Legal Issues

adverse to removing them from the law abiding citizen, who often needs a gun to protect himself from the very criminal element of ...

Texas and California on Gun Control

an even harder time controlling the situation. Clearly, the government cannot control the influx of guns in general, but it can co...

Government and its Purpose

and the death penalty should be outlawed and that murdering animals should also be against the law. These are really the only conc...

Ideas on Culture, Evolution, and the Human Mind

a light philosophical manner. While their work entitled Figments of Reality is rather intricate but written in an easy to read fa...

Debate on Gun Control

of State John R. Bolton, who led the US delegation to the 2001 conference, asserted that, given a choice between following the wil...

Different Views on Airliners Carrying Guns in Cockpits

pilots, and they should have the right to protect that cockpit with a firearm" (Burns, 2002, PG). The Airline Pilots Association,...

In Support of Gun Control

would indeed reduce the number of deaths due to guns and would eliminate much of the violence in this country. In order to fully ...

Police and Nonlethal Weapons

was killed by an FBI sniper (1999). Clearly, the need for non lethal weapons is significant as the twenty-first century unfolds. T...

Cinema and Gun Symbolism

take a life in just moments. A student writing on this subject may want to consider the gun as an appendage of the bodies of Travi...

Gunpowder's Invention and Historical Impact

and explosives has ranked among the top three most important elements of modern civilization along with printing and the Protestan...

Teenage Crime and Recommended Punishment

several hours of community service. However, this same offender is likely to appear again, usually before the same juvenile court...

Arguing Against Gun Control

In six pages the gun control issue is examined from both sides in an argument that ultimately opposes it. Four sources are cited ...