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Second Amendment Rights to Gun Ownership

Since the mid twentieth century our understanding of what our Second Amendment rights to gun ownership have been seriously challen...

Addressing Gun Safety

practitioners to alert their clients to this possibility (Christoffel, 2007, p. 626). Impact of the problem on the client An onl...

Guns Shouldn’t be Allowed on School Campuses

As the recent shootings at Virgina Tech and other violent incidents in schools around the nation attest, incidences of violence in...

The Responsible Use of Technology in Law Enforcement

fire small barbed electrodes into a targets skin, and then send an electrical current passing through their body. This has the eff...

Law Enforcement/Use of Stun Guns, Video Surveillance

stun guns and video surveillance technology has become increasingly widespread among law enforcement officers. However, this trend...

Machine Gun Technology and Warfare

speak in terms of military science. The systematic application of science to the development of weapons and to technology in gener...

St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Organized Crime

In eleven pages this paper discusses Minnesota's Twin Cities in an organized crime historical overview that includes Machine Gun K...

Overview of the Gatling Gun

In five pages the Gatling gun is examined in an overview of its development as well as its single to rapid fire development. Thre...

Ethics and Product Liability

In five pages this paper discusses product liability with regards to tobacco and guns. Six sources are cited in the bibliography....

Children and Guns

In seven pages this paper examines the glorification of guns by the media and the impact upon children and proposes solutions to t...

Societal Trends that Affect Individuals

This 5 page paper discusses societal trends that affect individuals, specifically gay marriage, gun laws, abortion and the privacy...

Comparing Nadine Gordimer and Joseph Conrad

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares The Moment the Gun Went Off by Nadine Gordimer and Heart of Darkness by Joseph Con...

Amadou Diallo and the Use of Excessive Violence by the NYPD

In a paper consisting of five pages use of excessive force in gunning down Amadou Diallo, a noncriminal, is discussed within the c...

Issue of Gun Safety

This paper examines the importance of proper gun safety in successful handling of firearms. Four sources are cited in the bibliog...

It is Time to Break Up America's Love Affair with Guns

In a paper consisting of twenty pages the right of America to own arms is examined from an historical perspective and the argument...

Handgun Laws in Louisiana

This essay focuses on handgun laws in Louisiana and the controversy surrounding both the anti and pro-gun lobbies. This seven pag...

Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, and Crisis in Poetry

In six pages this paper examines how poetry can be used to express a poet's crisis in 'Lady Lazarus' by Sylvia Plath and 'My Life ...

People Assisted by Social Sciences

that this huge nation requires a significant amount of energy just to maintain daily operation. As a result of Chinas overwhelmin...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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,...

'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 ...

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...

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...

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...

1995's United States v. Lopez Case

and is one that should be evaluated in todays frightening climate of violence. The Supreme Court case United States v. Lop...

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...

Latin America, China, and Changes Through Revolution or Reform

while the Nationalists were forced to retreat to the island of Formosa, now known as Taiwan. For Chairman Mao, revolution was onl...