...in one of the classrooms that the gunman targeted. He escaped but this information gave him chills. That boy’s name is Jeff. Why is it that issues don’t matter until a horrifying story has a personal connection to its readers that it causes them to fully gasp the situation? There are many alternatives to students carrying weapons on campus. Advocates for guns on campus say that it will make the environment safer, but in reality only the students and faculty can make a campus safer. If someone sees something, they should say something. Responsibility is the first method of defense, not guns. There are over 4,400 colleges and universities in the United States, the majority of these do not allow students or faculty to carry guns on campus. The states that allow students and faculty to carry firearms on college property are Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Mississippi, Oregon, Utah and Wisconsin. Only Utah and Colorado have explicit laws about allowing concealed firearms on campus, but leave the ultimate decision up to schools to decide whether to allow guns on campus or not. Twenty other states allow schools to decide on allowing guns of any type on campus. This leaves students confused where they can and cannot carry firearms across America. In 2001, the U.S. Department of Education conducted a study that determined that the homicide rate at post-secondary education institutions was only 0.07 per 100,000 in 1999, while there was only a U.S. national homicide rate of 5.7 per 100,000 persons...
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...Dear Representative Shuster: My name is Kaitlyn Bowser, and I am a sophomore at the Greencastle-Antrim High School. I am looking into careers with criminal justice and forensic science, and I strongly believe the safety and well-being of the populous is highly important. The United States needs to strengthen its gun control policy in order to create a safer environment for its citizens. Death rates involving guns are a real threat to the general public and need to be improved. The death tolls from mass shootings would decrease if assault rifles and handguns with high capacity magazines were banned or more severely restricted. Finally, while it is a common view that guns are a needed for self defense, in many cases it puts a person in more danger, or it is ineffective. The mortality rate from guns is very high in the...
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...Gun Control: American Gun Laws Need Reform Roderick D. Harris Capella University Gun Control: American Gun Laws Need Reform At the national level, the issue of gun control has been in the spotlight for the last 50 years. The conversation seems to pick up or lose steam depending upon current events. In more recent years, the barrage of mass murders carried out with the use of assault-style weapons have fueled the fire and reopened the public debate. In 2012, President Obama and his administration made a strong push toward reform of current laws on gun control but were met with hard opposition and their efforts failed. Many states have developed their own gun controls in the absence of federal statues, but these new reforms do not go far enough in most cases and the variances between state laws add to the confusion around developing comprehensive reform at the federal level. Strict gun control should at the least consist of full background checks, a ban on assault-style weapons and large-capacity magazines for ammunition. Congressional leaders should take the first step toward reform with a bi-partisan approach to a sweeping legislation. Strict gun control with a ban on assault-style weapons will reduce violence and shootings of mass murder in the United States (U.S.). The fewer the assault weapons and large-capacity magazines in our society will provide a greater opportunity for survival and reduced by-stander casualties during random acts of violence and mass shootings...
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...Gun Control Darrell Welch ENG/102 March 30, 2014 Michele Barth Gun Control Research Essay Rough Draft It is Friday afternoon on January 4, 2013, when Donnie Herman received a disturbing call from his wife Melinda stating a man was ringing their door bell and trying to get in the front door of their home. “Get the kids and hide” Donnie told his wife; Melinda gathered the 9 year old twins quickly and headed to the attic crawl space. Armed with her cell phone and the .38 caliber revolver Donnie had recently taught her how to use. Melinda hears the man break through the front door and rummage downstairs. Donnie meanwhile is calling 911 as his family cowers in the attic crawl space fearing for their lives as they attempt to hide from the intruder. The 32 year old male finds Melinda, the twins and at the same time looking down the barrel of the .38 caliber revolver, Melinda fires! Donnie says to the 911 Operator, “She’s shooting him, she’s shooting him, shoot him again” (Reese, 2014). 5 bullets hit their intended target, striking the would-be intruder in the face and neck, Paul Slater is heard screaming by the 911 Operator as he is hit by the .38 caliber rounds. Paul Slater makes his way out of the house to his SUV, trying to escape. When the police arrived they found the intruder in the neighbor’s yard after wrecking his SUV. The people of Walton County, Georgia have hailed this mother and wife a hero, a well prepared woman that was able to defend her children, herself and their...
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...CASE STUDY: CELLULAR SOUTH TAPS IBM COGNOS TM1, REVELWOOD FOR BUSINESS PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT November 25, 2009Comments Posted in Articles, Case Studies, Financial Cellular South is the largest privately held wireless provider in the United States. Based in Ridgeland, Miss., the company opened in 1988. Cellular South has led the industry with innovative voice and data services and a commitment to providing the same kind of advanced wireless services in rural America that has long been available to those living and working in metropolitan areas. Problem According to Justin Croft, Cellular South’s manager of financial analysis and planning, the rapid growth of Cellular South notwithstanding, his department found itself saddled with an outdated and inefficient budgeting system. “We were using an old general ledger system that flowed into our financial reporting tool,” he said. “You could report actuals against budget, but it really had no functionality in the way of creating a budget. This left us with multiple spreadsheets to create an operating budget, capital budget, sales forecast, customer budgets, and so on. All the data needed to compile our entire company’s budget was in disparate spreadsheets, and then we had to try to shove it into a system which was really never designed to do budgeting. Basically, we lacked the infrastructure to complete a comprehensive budget for the company.” Solution So Croft and his boss, Brian Jones, director of financial analysis and planning...
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...Weinberg, Bill. "Guns: The U.S. Threat To Mexican National Security. (Cover Story)." NACLA Report On The Americas 41.2 (2008): 21-26. Academic Search Premier. Web. 10 Apr. 2012. THE VIOLENT STRUGGLE BETWEEN MEXICAN Drug cartels for supremacy over the multibillion-dollar narcotics trade is starting to look like a real war. With local police outgunned, President Felipe Calderón began his term in the final days of 2006 by' deploying the army to fight the cartels The violence, simmering for more than a decade, exploded in 2003 in Nuevo Laredo, a crucial crossing point to U.S. Interstate 35. when Gulf Cartel kingpin Osiel Cardenas was apprehended. Seeing a strategic vulnerability, the rival Juarez and Tijuana cartels started moving into Nuevo Laredo, traditionally a Gulf Cartel stronghold.( n1) The Zetas--the Gulf Cartel's paramilitary force, thought to be composed of former military personnel--began a reign of terror to protect their turf Several Nuevo Laredo police officers were killed by presumed Zeta assassins in the opening months of 2005, prompting then president Vicente Fox to flood the town with 700 federal agents and army troops in what he dubbed "the mother of all battles" against the drug trade.( n2) Yet the Mexican state's armed response has done little to solve the problem. In 2007, drug-related killings surpassed 2.500, up from 2,100 in 2006.( n3) A crucial part of the problem lies in the cartels' firepower, which now rivals even that of the regular Mexican army...
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...BRIC countries would account for an astounding 41% of the world’s market share (Smith). But we now see that those predicted numbers are very far from certain. Many believe if Brazil does not improve some of its problems plaguing its society, the BRIC could easily become the RIC group. Without the necessary changes being made, Brazil’s annual compounding rate of 4.4% could be washed away. Recently the GDP numbers show their industrial output lingering around recession numbers. It is also predicted that the Brazilian economy will grow less than the U.S. economy this year (Rapoza). Brazil was originally able to secure its spot in the fastest growing nations in the mid to late nineties by bold privatization and economic liberalization policies by then president Fernando Henrique Cardoso. Cardoso’s successor, “Lula” da Silva continued the reforms once Cardoso left office in 2001. Between the terms of Silva and his hand-picked successor and current president, Dilma Rousseff, government spending became excessive and their government controlled pension system now needs to be reformed(Llosa). One of the main economic issues is the push for protectionism must be limited by President Rousseff. She knows it is an...
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...was charged with taking $30,000 in kickbacks as part of a scheme that resulted in $4.5 million of fraudulent loans. A Continental Illinois vice president went on trial charged with approving $1 billion of bad loans in exchange for $585,000 in kickbacks, loans that allegedly cost the Chicago bank $800 million and helped trigger its 1984 collapse. FDIC investigators say internal fraud was the major cause of one-third of all bank failures over the past two years. To some extent the victims have themselves to blame. A company with shoddy financial controls or badly trained internal auditors practically begs employees to steal. Take the case of Albert Miano, a $35,000-a-year middle manager at Reader's Digest, who from 1982 to 1987 embezzled $1 million. The Digest's controls, claims Miano, were woefully lacking. ''I even told them they needed better internal controls,'' he says, ''and they didn't listen.'' Reader's Digest contends its controls, which have since been tightened, weren't all that bad. One...
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...upset about perceived misuse of police force, but say little when police officers are gunned down or seriously injured during violent encounters or situations that escalate to lethal action. It is important to know that police departments strive to reduce the amount of use of force incidents within their respective agencies. Are there alternatives to a potentially deadly encounter? One may ask, Can the officer step back and call for assistance? If the suspect's identity is known, rather than engaging in a foot pursuit, can an officer make an arrest later? Can the officer not shoot to kill? Can the officer shoot in a non-life threatening part of the body? By nature, every situation is different and must be evaluated on an individual basis. Stepping back is not always an option for an officer. When the life of an officer is threatened by someone pointing a gun at them, or by any other life threatening means, and not knowing the assailant’s intentions, this forces the officer to make a split-second decision. That decision will determine if the officer will live or die. In the early nineties there were two notable examples as they relate to use of force: the Rodney King incident in 1991 in Los Angeles, California, and the 1999 shooting death of Amadou Diallo by New York City police officers that prompted law enforcement agencies across the country to re-evaluate their use of force policies and training. (Harring, 2000) Many officers had to adjust their thoughts regarding...
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...these things can be linked to what many consider Chicago’s biggest problem, street gangs. But today the city seems to be far more segregated and full of poverty in neighborhoods that are home to minorities. Many adults turn to the streets to make a living and children see their elders and in return do the same. These same poor neighborhoods have a failing public education system for the youth along with a bad relationship with police. According to the Chicago Crime Commission, “a 2012 Chicago Police Department gang audit found there are more than 600 gang factions in the city, with a minimum combined membership of 70,000” (cbsnews.com). With the large number of gang members in the city there is a lot of fighting going on over turf for control of drug distribution. This is mainly a problem occurring in minority communities all throughout Chicago. “201 of the 259 homicide victims were African-American” (chicagotribune.com). While blacks make up about 33 percent of the city’s population, they accounted for nearly 78 percent of the homicide victims through the first sic months of 2012. Gangs are nothing really new in Chicago with the famous work of Al Capone throughout the city during the prohibition era. But those gangs seemed to have more structure and purpose. Todays street gangs in Chicago are young people who are trying to make their claim as the guy...
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...Research Paper: Final On September 11, 2001, 19 militants associated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda, hijacked four American planes and executed pre-engineered terrorist attacks against various targets in the United States. Two of the planes were flown directly into the towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. A third plane then hit the Pentagon just outside Washington, DC, and the fourth and final plane crashed into a field in Pennsylvania. Now referred to as 9/11, the attacks resulted in extensive destruction, over 3000 merciless deaths in New York City and Washington, and triggered the driving force behind major US initiatives to combat terrorism. Also, may view this horrific event as a defining moment in the presidency of George W. Bush. The first strike was on the North Tower of the World Trade Center. Flight 11, a Boeing 747 carrying 76,000 pounds of jet fuel and 92 passengers, was overtaken by five Arabic passengers, that was later discovered to have worked directly with al-Qaida leader, Osama bin Laden to both plan and give life to this attack. At 7:40 am the flight departed from Boston as normal, the flight maintained its course for the first thirteen minutes. Following this, the crew was not acknowledging communications with the FAA. Several attempts were made to communicate with the crew but no reply was received, with the exception of the sound of static and was thought to be a scream. Connection was finally made at 8:18am to Cary, North Carolina...
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..._______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ Report Information from ProQuest August 22 2014 14:21 _______________________________________________________________ 22 August 2014 ProQuest Table of contents 1. A Matter Over MIND..................................................................................................................................... 1 22 August 2014 ii ProQuest Document 1 of 1 A Matter Over MIND Author: Gibeaut, John ProQuest document link Abstract: The U.S. Supreme Court may help to answer the question after it hears Clark's challenge to Arizona's strippeddown insanity defense, which Clark says denied him a fair trial by not taking full account of his mental illness. In a double-edged due process attack on Arizona's system, Clark wants the justices to relax restrictions the state places on the insanity defense, which accounts for mental illness with a "guilty except insane" verdict. [...] in a more contentious aspect of the case, Clark also says the trial judge unfairly refused to consider evidence of his mental illness to rebut the criminal intent required for his first-degree murder conviction. "From all this, the court must conclude that, while the defendant was affected by his mental illness, it did not... distort his perception of reality so severely that he did not know his actions were wrong," Coker wrote in a special verdict detailing...
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...Casualties of Law Enforcement: Homicide and Suicide Katherine Nielsen Buena Vista University Online Abstract This work is an overview of the increase in deaths of law enforcement agents: those killed on duty and those who kill themselves. As per a yearly report (Berman, 2014), the number of law enforcement agents killed while working rose almost a quarter this past year compared to years prior, especially ambush-style killings. Police officers across the country face potential dangers on their job, and they are a target simply because they are in uniform. As well, every 17 hours an officer commits suicide (Berman, 2014). This paper explores the correlation of the stress experienced by law enforcement associated with general strain theory (GST). GST is an explanation for suicide ideation for law enforcement officers. Other articles observe that police officers may suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after a critical incident or a traumatic experience. PTSD awareness is critical for saving lives. Why is there an increase in law enforcement deaths and suicides, and what needs to occur to change this trend? Keywords: post-traumatic stress disorder, general strain theory Introduction There were 50 officers murdered by shootings in 2014, a huge leap from the 32 such deaths a year prior (Berman, 2014). One officer killed is one officer too many, and this trend needs to be reversed. How does society stop this? Altogether, 126 law enforcement officers died in...
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...The Easter Rising In Ireland 1916, there was an event known as The Easter Rising. The roots of the Rising lie in the ‘new nationalism’ which emerged in Ireland from the 1890s. Its most significant outcome was the rejuvenation of the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB). This small, underground, revolutionary body planned and directed the insurrection in 1916. The truly dynamic element was a tiny minority within this organization; they were acting on the old republican principle: ‘England’s difficulty is Ireland’s opportunity’. In August 1915, this group formed the IRB Military Council. It was eventually composed of seven members – Thomas Clarke, Sean MacDermott, Patrick Pearse, Eamonn Ceannt, Joseph Plunkett, James Connolly, and Thomas MacDonagh. All seven approved and signed the Proclamation, and together they declared themselves to be the ‘Provisional Government’ of the Irish Republic when the Rising began. They were aided throughout by an Irish-American organization, Clan na Gael, which shared their aims and provided virtually the only channel of contact between the insurgents and Germany, from whom they hoped to receive military backing. The IRB was too small in number and covert in operation to precipitate a full-scale rising. For this purpose, it hoped to use the Irish Volunteer Force (IVF). This organization had been formed in 1913 by moderate nationalists, impressed by the impact of the Ulster Volunteer Force and frustrated by the delay in Britain granting...
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...The 2012 Kentucky Mock Trial Case Commonwealth of Kentucky v. MORGAN SMITH > > > > > Case No. 11-CR-256-1 BY: JUDGE EARL-RAY NEAL 25th Judicial District Division III With special thanks to Dr. Rosalee Edwards; Honorable Marc Rosen, Senior Judge; Honorable Stacey Hibbard, Attorney; and Family and Juvenile Services Staff: Patrick Yewell, Executive Officer; Rachel Bingham, Manager; and Billy Stover, Program Coordinator Past Winners--Kentucky Mock Trial Tournament 1985 – Boyd County High School 1986 – Woodford County High School 1987 – Model Laboratory School 1988 – Model Laboratory School 1989 – Model Laboratory School 1990 – Woodford County High School 1991 – Model Laboratory School 1992 – Model Laboratory School 1993 – Model Laboratory School 1994 – Montgomery County High School 1995 – Model Laboratory School 1996 – Owensboro High School 1997 – Montgomery County High School 1998 – Montgomery County High School 1999 – Breckinridge County High School 2000 – Montgomery County High School 2001 – Madison Central / KY Tech 2002 – Montgomery County High School 2003 – Model Laboratory School 2004 – Montgomery County High School 2005 – Montgomery County High School 2006 – Montgomery County High School 2007 – Montgomery County High School 2008 – Highlands High School 2009 – Madison Central / KY Tech 2010 – Madison Central / KY Tech 2011 – Montgomery County High School 2 CASE MATERIALS Table of Contents THE PROBLEM Statement...
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