Essays 1 - 30
where it happens" (Snyder PG) is the crux of his thesis. In a sense, he uses the tactic of diversion because he essentially blames...
There are currently more than 20,000 gun laws on the books in this country as of 1994. (Cottrol 11) Simultaneously 40 states assur...
It is a very small price to pay in order to fortify the level of safety that is so quickly plummeting in todays society (Anonymous...
used as power weapons in such crimes as drive-by shootings, minor altercations and myriad other random acts of violence. With the...
maintaining the right own guns and it is also an amendment wherein many people claim modern times no longer dictate such a need. P...
In three pages the explosive arguments for and against gun control are examined in a consideration of advocacy and a protection of...
In eight pages this paper discusses how gun control legislation has been ineffective because society is the problem, not guns. Se...
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...
engage in crime far more often without fearing for their lives from the victims. This is emphasized even more when one understands...
citizen who often needs a gun to protect himself from the very criminal element of society who will always have access to firearms...
should always be legal because of the Constitution of the United States. On the other side of the coin are those who want all guns...
bloodshed and terror of such despicable crimes comes the most obvious of questions: Why are kids killing each other? In an ideal ...
the question becomes: Is it a constitutional right for children and adolescents to bear arms? Indeed not, however, law enforcemen...
teachers for nothing more than the thrill of the act has parents and administrators up in arms (Problem 2). Out from all the bloo...
were needed, and with that, the Second Amendment guaranteed the right of individuals to bear arms in service of that militia, so t...
statistics which show how many people have avoided or saved their own lives aided by the owning of a gun (Polsby 1994). In other w...
do. There is really no reason to own a gun. Violence begets violence. The arguments fall along those lines. Also, while some conte...
incidence of fire breaking out during operations. In one of ABCs 20/20 episodes in 1998, the audience was cautioned that this ha...
to blame for crimes involving guns, the number of crimes committed would have increased at the same rate. Mathematical calculatio...
policy has followed. They discuss each law in more detail, relating it to the historical events that propelled each piece of legis...
have also pointed out that those who are involved in a gun fatality are also involved in alcohol, drug abuse and domestic violence...
these two conditions; namely, common sense, in which guns should be kept away from untrustworthy people and, political philosophy ...
would indeed reduce the number of deaths due to guns and would eliminate much of the violence in this country. In order to fully ...
an even harder time controlling the situation. Clearly, the government cannot control the influx of guns in general, but it can co...
of State John R. Bolton, who led the US delegation to the 2001 conference, asserted that, given a choice between following the wil...
is so irresponsible as to use firearms in violent assaults, being that there is no such connection with the average Americans abil...
weapons in such crimes as drive-by shootings, minor altercations and myriad other random acts of violence. With the ongoing gun c...
gun control is that the existence, or presence, of guns in a private citizens home leads to more violence. Statistics have often i...
logic of those for gun control and illustrate how they cling to smallest details, attempting to manipulate them to their own ends....
right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed". Buckley (2002) points out that "opponents of comprehensive gun...