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Arguments for and against gun control

This is based not only on sociocultural factors such as crime rates, but also on different perspectives on the 2nd Amendment. ...

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...

3 Web Sites and the 'Myths' About Gun Control Dispelled

number of guns used in crimes have been stolen from either registered owners or gun store robberies, which goes to show that if a ...

Part I of Gun Control Philosophies

In five pages this paper considers due process and crime control perspectives in a consideration of gun control policy. Six sourc...

Current Arguments on Handgun Control and the National Rifle Association

In five pages this paper examines the NRA's website and assesses gun control's pros and cons. One source is cited in the bibliogr...

Gun Control and the Right to Own a Gun

maintaining the right own guns and it is also an amendment wherein many people claim modern times no longer dictate such a need. P...

Holland, England, and Homicide

In forty eight pages this paper compares the rates of homicide in Holland and England in a consideration of required comparative m...

Community Involvement, Crime, and Law Enforcement

In four pages this paper compares the articles 'NYPD Has Murder at a 35 Year Low' by Howard Safir and 'Homicide Increase Can be Co...

Do Violent Video Games Encourage Violence Among Children

This paper reviews author Scott Shackford's defense of violent video games as published in the article Imaginary Guns Don't Kill P...

Deterring Young People from Committing Crime

This 3 page paper gives an overview of general deterrence theory and how is it not useful in preventing young drug users from comm...

Death Penalty Social and Philosophical Justifications

who could argue with that idea? Of course, capital punishment is an ongoing debate and one that has been around for centuries. Als...

Punishment and Its 5 Purposes

if there were few laws on the books, there would be anarchy. People would basically do whatever they wanted. They might rape the g...

Basic Argument Opposing Capital Punishment

be the case. This is because they want justice for their loved one. They do not want to see a murderer enjoy even another hour of ...

Death Penalty Issues and Problems

murder. The families of murder victims often wait for a verdict of death and believe that should be the case. This is because they...

James Q. Wilson's "Just Take Away Their Guns" - Critical Analysis

not be the disarming of law-abiding citizens. It should be to reduce the number of people who carry guns unlawfully, especially i...

Issues Concerning Internal Controls

is in place the key element is that of accountability (Watts. 2007). Authority is also likely to be linked a system of authoriza...

Gun Control Laws in Washington DC

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AGAINST GUN CONTROL

The firearm prohibition movement has been less than honest about many issues surrounding gun control, arguing that "there is every...

Stricter Gun Control Leaves People Vulnerable

that the average citizen is allowed to own a gun they are wary of breaking into peoples homes, or wary of committing crime in some...

Campus Violence, Gun Control And Safety Measures

the minds of those who found fault with how several systems failed at the same time in order for such a tremendous breach of secur...

Gun Control: Does It Prevent Crime?

gun control activists maintain that these controls have not only affected crime rates in a positive manner but have also proven to...

Both Sides of the Gun Control Issue

subject to "two competing philosophies" (Gorman and Kopel). In countries like the U.S. and other democracies that derive their pow...

Gun Control and Virginia Tech

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...

Liberals and Conservatives, Pro and Con

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

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...

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...

Opposing Gun Control

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

Gun Control Support

teachers for nothing more than the thrill of the act has parents and administrators up in arms (Problem 2). Out from all the bloo...

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...

Expressing Gun Control Support

the question becomes: Is it a constitutional right for children and adolescents to bear arms? Indeed not, however, law enforcemen...