...test themselves throughout the physical and mental challenges. Whereas, De Souza argues that the army has interesting recruitment such as ‘Join the Army and see the world’ or ‘ Learn a new skill in the Army’ but does not mentions about any negative things such as killing people or being killed. In the second argument, Blythe claims that people can gain practical job-related skills which will be taught by top professionals and these skills will be useful in the real life after military services. From De Souza’s point of view, he states that focusing on building a strong army can lead to the unnecessary threats to the country’s neighbors and it might end up triggering a war between the countries. Thirdly, Blythe also states that conscription is gain more knowledge and have wider perspective, he supports his idea that it lead to “a more tolerant society”. On the other hand, De Souza emphasizes that the army should upgrade the condition of the army and conscription is not the only way to contribute the society. This essay will analyze the strength and weakness of both authors’ arguments. Discussion: The perspectives of these two authors are very different. Blythe’s argument is quite strong...
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...This paper critically assesses the Republican and Democrat points of views on the two issues, and draws a conclusion to the legitimacy of gun centralization, better known as gun control. Ethical Dilemma Research Paper Gun Rights and the Legitimacy of Gun Centralization Gun control has been the highlight of the news lately. Politicians and caring people all across the United States have seen the tragic events, such as the Sandy Hook shooting, and are now demanding a government takeover of firearms. The dilemma occurs within the right-left political paradigm, two differing ideologies, where the labeled “left” are strongly for gun control, and the labeled “right” are strongly against it. Background In order to be able to discover the truths behind the cause for gun centralization’s inception, and whether it created the crimeless paradise it claims to be able to birth, history must be the first place to look. It is absolutely necessary to be informed of history, for all who study it shall learn from the mistakes of those before them, but those who...
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...government and American militias. The American militia is lead by Ammon Bundy. The county of Harney is where the whole incident is taking place. At once a peaceful protest in the county of Harney, turned into an armed occupation. Their goal of the protest was to free ranchers Dwight and Steve Hammond, who were both found guilty of committing arson due to setting a fire on federal land. In the act of what was a peaceful protest, the militia has taken control over Malheur National Wildlife Refuge to send the government a bigger message. No one was hurt from them taking over the refuge and they aren’t destroying property. County sheriff David M. Ward has offered treaties and has done his best...
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...signs against interference by governments as well as others individuals. The only role of the government is to protect those rights.” (John Hospers) These civil rights are strongly supported by libertarians that argue gun regulations are unconstitutional. The libertarian argument against gun control is simple; the government is infringing us of our rights. As the Amendment clearly states (A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed) the people have the right to keep and bear arms. The Constitution does not grant this right. The wording of the Amendment implies that the people already have this right independent of the Constitution. The Second Amendment merely prohibits the government from infringing on this right. This simple statement is there to guarantee that the people will always be armed and therefore prepared to defend themselves, their families, their communities, their state and their country. Libertarians agree with the majority of Americans who believe they have the right to decide how best to protect themselves, their families and their property. Millions of Americans have guns in their homes and sleep more comfortably because of it. The police do not provide security in your home, your business or the street. They show up after the crime to take reports and do detective work. The poorer the neighborhood, the riskier it is for peaceful residents. Only an armed citizenry...
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...Argument Essay By Joseph Peterson Ivy Tech Community College Argument Essay Guns or no guns? That seems to be a big question these days. A lot of the reason behind the discussion is mass shootings that occur so often now days. Other forms of violence with guns happen, but the most controversy over guns usually occurs after a mass shooting. The reason for that is that mass shootings tend to be more mindless and more innocent people are hurt or killed in mass shootings. The thought of what if I or one of my families was in one of these mass shootings always hit home afterwards, and so we think of ways to prevent them from happening again. I have a question though is guns really the issue or is it really another issue? I think that the anti-gun activists use every shooting as just another door to support their views against guns. I can see why they do since guns are used to the shootings, but taking away a normal citizens right to own a gun and defend themselves against crimes is not smart. These shootings are not done by normal citizens and could still occur even if they took away guns from the normal citizens who just want protection. Police are not always there when you need them and sometimes you need to protect yourself first as we can see from different crimes that take place today. What would stop a mass shooter from buying guns illegally? Do they not think that they could? Drugs are illegal but still sold and used everywhere every minute. One argument...
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...Senior Research Project: Is the right to bear arms ethical? Lucas Van Duyn Senior Seminar: Business Ethics Dr. Jewe July 31, 2012 Introduction to the Project: In the United States, research into firearms and violent crime is fraught with difficulties, associated with limited data on gun ownership and use, firearms markets, and aggregation of crime data. Research studies into gun violence have primarily taken one of two approaches: case-control studies and social ecology. Gun ownership is usually determined through surveys, proxy variables, and sometimes with production and import figures. In statistical analysis of homicides and other types of crime, which are rare events, these data tend to have poison distributions, which also presents methodological challenges to researchers. (Just Facts, 2010) Americans own an estimated 270 million firearms, approximately 90 guns for every 100 people. In 2009, guns took the lives of 31,347 Americans in homicides, suicides and unintentional shootings. This is the equivalent of more than 85 deaths each day and more than three deaths each hour. 66,769 Americans were treated in hospital emergency departments for non-fatal gunshot wounds in 2009. Firearms were the third-leading cause of injury-related deaths nationwide in 2009, following poisoning and motor vehicle accidents. Between 1955 and 1975, the Vietnam War killed over 58,000 American soldiers – less than the number of civilians killed with guns in the U.S. in an average...
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...• SUBSCRIBE • RENEW • GIVE A GIFT • DIGITAL EDITION Print | Close The Case for More Guns (And More Gun Control) HOW DO WE REDUCE GUN CRIME AND AURORA-STYLE MASS SHOOTINGS WHEN AMERICANS ALREADY OWN NEARLY 300 MILLION FIREARMS? MAYBE BY ALLOWING MORE PEOPLE TO CARRY THEM. By Jeffrey Goldberg The Century 16 Cineplex in Aurora, Colorado, stands desolate behind a temporary green fence, which was raised to protect the theater from prying eyes and mischief-makers. The parking lots that surround the multiplex are empty—weeds are pushing through the asphalt—and the only person at the theater when I visited a few weeks ago was an enervated Aurora police officer assigned to guard the site. I asked the officer whether the building, which has stood empty since the night of July 20, when a former graduate student named James E. Holmes is alleged to have killed 12 people and wounded 58 others at a midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises, still drew the curious. “People drive by to look,” he said, but “not too many.” The Aurora massacre is noteworthy, even in the crowded field of mass shootings, as one of the more wretched and demoralizing in the recent history of American violence, and I was surprised that the scene of the crime did not attract more attention. “I guess people move on,” he said. I walked up a slight rise that provided an imperfect view of the back of Theater 9, where the massacre took place, and tried to imagine the precise emotions the victims felt...
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...‘The UK is a genuinely multi-cultural society which welcomes newcomers and diversity’ The definition of a multi-cultural society refers to a civilization, group, school or any other organization, where people from different races, religion and culture live and work with each other in peace. This means that there are different ‘groups’ of people living in the same or working in the same community side by side without any discrimination. I neither agree nor disagree with this statement. In this essay I will explain why this is. Firstly, a poll result taken of 1000 people on Facebook shows that in May 2013 65% thought that the UK is a good example of a multicultural society, 30% did not and 5% did not know. I think that in some cases factors such as religion, music, food, language and dress do keep some groups in society separate from others. People often feel drawn towards others who share the same values, religion, lifestyle and beliefs as themselves. It is also natural to feel more comfortable in a community where people look like you. For example in Leicester there are areas where predominantly Asian people have chosen to set up home and businesses. But also different communities have shown a willingness to embrace other cultures and share their own ways of life, for instance the Hindu and Sikh communities in Leicester welcomes school parties from different faiths and cultures to their places of worship, to learn about their culture and religion. The...
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...Insecurity in our nation: Examining the call for State Police. As it has been widely reported, the question of State Police has again come to the fore like sore thumb. In the past few months, Nigerians have been exposed to more argument about the merits and demerits of having State-established and controlled Police as opposed to the centrally controlled, Nigeria Police Force. Also, in these same past few weeks, it seems as if a new low has been reached in terms of insecurity which made people to start calling for a State-controlled Police. Even with the prevailing insecurities, the Governors of the States in the North stated unanimously in a recent gathering that they are not ready for State Police. This is in-spite of the initial agreement reached with Southern Governors to ask for State Police which in essence means a decentralization of policing, an outright removal of policing from the exclusive list of jurisdiction of Federal Government. Prior to this scenario, the Governors, in their respective States can be described as having firm and absolute grips of instrument of coercion such as even the Nigeria Police. Granting them further powers to establish State Police, will certainly go to confer on these Governors an awesome power which is comparable only to that emanating from the ladies of their manors. With a State Police established by the Governors, who is that private citizen, politician or a political party that would dare challenge their authorities...
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...related to U.S. gun shows and concealed weapons, as well as university policies. Document Information: Essay last updated: 20121204 Lexile: 1310 ISSN: 10727825 Accession Number: 83811665 Database: Literary Reference Center Translate Full Text: HTML Full Text ------------------------------------------------- THE CASE FOR MORE Guns (AND MORE GUN CONTROL) ListenSelect: THE CENTURY 16 CINEPLEX in Aurora, Colorado, stands desolate behind a temporary green fence, which was raised to protect the theater from prying eyes and mischief-makers. The parking lots that surround the multiplex are empty -- weeds are pushing through the asphalt -- and the only person at the theater when I visited a few weeks ago was an enervated Aurora police officer assigned to guard the site. I asked the officer whether the building, which has stood empty since the night of July...
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...patriots and tyrants” - Thomas Jefferson “The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed, which Americans possess over the people of almost every nation… (Where) the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.” - James Madison -The Federalist Sandy Hook: Littleton, Colorado (Columbine): Newtown, Connecticut. These names strike fear in to anyone who was alive to hear about them as they happened. These were mass shootings in very public places, schools. Between the years of 1996-2013 a total of 84 attackers committed 77 attacks on schools in 15 countries killing 502 students and teachers and wounding 496 others worldwide. (See Table 1) It is my belief that these attacks were orchestrated upon the most helpless in our society in order to incite mass fear and chaos! Each crime was perpetrated with both handguns and rifles, or what these days are referred to as “assault rifles.” The term “assault rifle” is yet another mainstream media scare tactic designed solely for fear because many believe that for a civilian to possess what looks like a military weapon they must intend to murder. Hatred of other people because of race or status and the belief that “Someone” is holding them back is truly what is at the heart of killing and that guns are just the tool of choice. I began with the school shootings because they are fresh, raw and are being used at the core of most gun arguments. “Save the Children” is about as popular as “Remember the Alamo” was more than 175 years...
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...that the second amendment was made just for “well-regulated militia.” The well-regulated militia in our day and age would be more like cops or the armed forces, anybody protecting over the people of America. The Second Amendment can be interpreted in a lot of different ways. These two authors have two opposite views on the Second Amendment and what it says. Each...
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...JUSTICE FOR SAMMY YATIM Instructor: Richard Wiszniowski Student: Kyle Santos Course: PSI-101-OLA Assignment #1 Due Date: 11/06/2015 On the night of July 27, 2013, the Toronto Police murdered a boy named Sammy Yatim. His death caused all of Toronto to question the authority and reasoning of the police brutality caused by the Toronto Police. The people who wished to do “justice” for him argued the voice of the young Sammy Yatim. They seen the situation as a one sided situation, that being the police simply f***ed up, pardon my French. Although it may seem like a one-sided debate, there’s simply just more to this story. Most who would argue justice for Sammy would usually be on his side. This would be because they believe what the police did was wrong. Justice to the people who argue on Sammy’s side would be want to see the police officers who did this to be charged and arrested. This however did happen On August 19, 2013, when James Forcillo (the officer who fired nine shots) was charged with second-degree murder. On July 30, 2014, he was additionally charged with attempted murder (thestar, 2013). Although this may seem like they were getting “justice” but I believe it’s not the point. Plus he still bailed out of his charges. For the people who are with Sammy, justice to them would be to know the reasoning for this attack and admit that he was in the wrong. Let this sink in. This situation is very scary for the transit riders; however, I believe if this individual really...
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...where it says we have the right to protect our rights and families. Thirdly, the second amendment protects us against our own government. In today’s society there are people who obey the law and people who do not. The people who obey the law would give up their guns if legislation was passed. Would they be happy? No, they would not, but they would have to. Criminals on the other do not obey the law in the first place, so what makes you think that they will obey new control laws. The answer is quite simple. If you disarm the civilians then many innocent people will be murdered, robbed, and punished by people who do not obey the law. This is because criminals will be the only people besides the police with weapons. Examples of this have been seen in cities such as New York, Chicago, and Washington D.C. Crime rates in these cities are much higher. The murder rate in Washington D.C. has risen 134% since the strictest gin control act ever created was enacted on the city. The reason that the rates in these cities has gone up is because hand guns have been banned in these cities and the people cannot protect themselves against criminals. The only people that gun control laws would affect would be people who obey the law. Criminals would actually want gun control because then they would not be afraid of anyone because the law abiding citizens would have no protection against them....
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...The Right to Keep and Bear Arms: A Right to Self-Defense Against Criminals and Despots by Robert Dowlut[*] If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. -- James Madison[1] INTRODUCTION A written constitution is a reminder that governments can be unreasonable and unjust. By guaranteeing that "[a] well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed," the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution provides the citizens a means of protection against the unjust excesses of government.[2] The Framers placed this guarantee in the Bill of Rights because they considered the right to keep and bear arms peculiarly important and also uniquely vulnerable to infringement. The Amendment's command protects individuals against even popular conceptions of the public good. In addition to this protection within the United States Constitution,[3] the constitutions of forty-three states guarantee the right to keep and bear arms.[4] Despite the constitutional authority for this right, legislators and judges have consistently attempted to devalue it. Methods such as giving misleading labels to select firearms like "assault weapons"[5] or "Saturday Night Specials"[6] have been used to justify incremental disarmament.[7] American jurisprudence has deliberately devalued the right...
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