...Guns do not kill people. People kill people. The person is the one who pulls the trigger, killing someone. A gun cannot kill a person by itself. Some people disagree, and because of this, there is an issue on gun control, whether people should freely possess them or not. The debate is between making gun laws more or less strict, letting people wield them freely or not.Though the results of laws being less strict are far more acceptable than laws being more strict. Some reasons include that when guns are removed, crime increases, possessing a firearm can help with self defense, and when guns are taken out, gun violence still exists. Primarily, removing guns causes more crimes. Samuel Francis, contributor of Gun Control: Opposing Viewpoints,...
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...put More Restrictions on Gun Ownership and Use The Second Amendment of the United States Constitution reads: "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 is the people’s right to bear arms. The United States should put more restrictions on gun ownership and use. Any american citizen can purchase a firearm from a store with a simple background check or firearms are sold at gun shows with no form of investigation on the customer's criminal record. The customer purchasing the gun is asked to fill out a form that takes a couple of minutes to complete. The form consists of questions about the customer's...
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...Alexandria Chavez English 68 Professor Tolliver Essay #3 2 December 2014 A Mystery Unsolved Kurt Cobain: Suicide or Murder? Early morning April 8, 1994, 27 year-old Kurt Cobain, lead singer of rock band Nirvana, is found dead inside the greenhouse of his Seattle mansion. After checking himself out of a rehab facility located near Los Angeles, Cobain traveled back to his home in Lake Washington, Seattle – only a few days later did his wife, Courtney Love, file a missing persons report for her husband. Allegedly stuck in Los Angeles for business, Love could not search for Cobain on her own time; she hired a private investigator named Tom Grant to go out on the hunt for the Rock and Roll sensation. Grant and best friend of Cobain, Dylan Carlson, began an investigation that led nowhere; they searched the Lake Washington house several times, visited numerous hotels along the Aurora strip, and even checked out a few of Cobain’s drug dealers. When the morning of April 8 flew around, it took an electrician hired by Love to discover the deceased body of Kurt Cobain. Positioned on his back, Cobain was recognized with a shotgun cemented between his fingertips and a purported suicide note settled on a planter just feet away. Immediately, police officers ruled his death as suicide, but Nirvana fans, close friends and family, and Grant suggested that was not the case – they believed Kurt Cobain was indeed murdered. Although it may sound preposterous, there is evidence directly related...
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... | | | | |D |Shaun is driving home at night from work on a six-lane road, |Murder | | | |under the speed limit. There are no streetlights. A man is |Voluntary manslaughter | | | |crossing the middle of the street, and Shaun does not see him. |Involuntary manslaughter | | | |Shaun hits the man and kills him. |Justifiable homicide | | | | |Excusable homicide | | | | |Statutory rape | | | | |Malice aforethought | | | | |Necessity | | | | |Felony murder | | | | |Suicide | | | |...
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...Davis Final Draft Gun Control: The Stricter the Safer! Gun control, due to rights under the Second Amendment, has been a controversial issue for centuries. The Second Amendment of the Constitution 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.” Had the amendment simply said the right to bear arms, gun control would not be a controversial issue to this day. The debate is whether the Second Amendment is stating that each and every U.S citizen has a right to keep and bear arms, or whether it is stating only members of the militia have the right to keep and bear arms. If the Second Amendment was referring to each person individually, then it would have never mentioned the militia. According to Warren Burger, the late U.S Supreme Court Chief (in regards to the Second Amendment), “‘This has been the subject of one of the greatest pieces of fraud on the American public by special interests that I have ever seen in my lifetime’" (Durston 1). The United States is one of the leading countries with high suicide and homicide rates, and if we don’t put higher restrictions on these lax gun laws, we will continue to have one of the worst homicide and suicide rates in the world. Some people would say that people have the right to own a gun to protect themselves and their homes. Self-defense is the number one reason why some people think we should have guns. According to Kenneth...
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...crisis. These supporters believe gun laws only restrict law abiding citizens from their 2nd amendment rights with minimal effect on criminal gun owners. However; many anti-gun activists believe that more guns are not the answer to a gun problem and a Campus Carry law may increase accidental discharges, violence, as well as youth suicides. The University of Texas massacre fifty years ago is a prime example of this heated issue on both sides of the gun debate. On August 1, 1966, Charles Joseph Whitman climbed the University of Texas Tower, in Austin, and in a span of 96 minutes fired 150 high-powered rounds of ammunition down into unsuspecting university students and faculty. Those nearby heard "strange noises" and thought nothing of it until they saw the bodies and blood on the sidewalks. The shooter killed and wounded nearly 50 people that day (Lavergne). A similar occurrence happened on a Monday morning April 2007, on the campus of Virginia...
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...individuals with malicious intent but also to decrease the rate of suicides, which in 2011 a total of 21,175 numbers of deaths by firearms. A problem the bill will face is law abiding citizens right to keep and bear arms, the right to speak The policy is addressing the problem of the sale of firearms by the mentally ill, by providing family members and law enforcement the means to restrict the right of purchase of guns to the mentally ill and the safety to individuals who have intent to commit suicide. Assembly Bill 1014 was authorized by Nancy Skinner (D-15) in events of mass shootings such as at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado; Sandy Hook Elementary school in Newton, Connecticut, etc. has brought change to the United States by reform. Previous mass shootings debates in the correlation between mental health and mass shootings have succumbed to the decision of; are mentally ill subjects mentally sound to possess firearms. In 2001, the US National Library of Medicine ran a study of thirty-four subjects, acting alone or in pairs, committed 27 mass murders between 1958 and 1999. The sample consisted of males with a median age of 17. A majority was described as "loners" and abused alcohol or drugs; almost half were bullied by others, preoccupied with violent fantasy, and violent by history. Although 23% had a documented psychiatric history, only 6% were judged to have been psychotic at the time of the mass murder. Depressive symptoms and historical antisocial behaviors were predominant...
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...America Joyce W. Davis Oklahoma Wesleyan University Abstract The prevalence of guns in the United States and the frequency with which they are commit crimes has made gun control a much discussed and contentious issue. There are an estimated 200 to 250 million firearms in America, and of these, about a third are handguns. According to health researcher, Etienne Krug the homicide rate in the United States is six times higher than that of other developed nations. Though it varies from year to year, according to the FBI, in general guns are in about 70 percent of homicides. In 2000, for example, 52 percent of homicides were committed with handguns, and 19 percent were committed with other guns. The simple fact is that murder and other crimes committed with firearms occur more frequently, where gun control laws are least stringent. Firearms in America There is probably never a time in America history when guns were less popular in the culture. People fed up. Half the households in America are armed. Thirty-eight thousand Americas die from gunshots every year. A recent survey Yankelovich Partners found that 70 percent of Americans favor stricter gun-control laws. Yet, even in the face of lifelong anti-handgun convictions, more women than ever seem to be taking up guns. The Gainesville murder, the Los Angeles riots, the Florida Tourist killings, the California kidnapping and murder of 12-year-old Polly Klaas—every time there is a highly publicized violent incident,...
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...law is not a good tool for all purposes. Thus, the aspects of common good supported by authoritative rules are the appropriate aims of law. This object of this paper is to examine five controversial laws in US that restrict or regulate behavior and present a philosophical argument for or against why such laws advance a proper aim of law. Controversial Laws in US Due to their sensitive nature, there are several topics which are highly disputed. Since prudence and emotions never go hand-in-hand, it becomes hard to arrive at a conclusion. There are a number of issues, topics and laws which can be debated upon like laws permitting or prohibiting gay marriage, abortion, use of marijuana, assisted suicide, child pornography, animal cruelty, health care, human rights, recreational drugs, gun control and harm to the environment etc. Here we will discuss five of these. 1) Homosexuality – Gay...
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...Denison played Joey Buttafuoco. The Story of Amy Fisher is of pure infatuation, lust and jealousy rage. Furthermore is a story of obsessive love, illegal sex, assault and attempted suicide. It is about a sixteen year girl who fell in love with Joey who was a married man with two children. Some could argue that Amy fell for the charm or the idea of being with a more mature and older man. The story take a large twisted from infidelity to a murder rage, which almost cost Mary Jo Buttafucco her life. Amy was obsessed with their relationship to the point that she gave Buttaffuoco an ultimatum to choose between her and his wife, Joey decided to continue with his wife, therefore Amy came up with the idea to get rid of her boyfriend’s wife. Amy became very angry, and disappointed to the point that she didn’t want to be alive any more, so, she tried to kill herself by cutting her writs. After Amy tried to commit suicide without success, she tried to continue with her normal life, and she stated going out with Paul Makely, But Amy couldn’t continue without her lover. Then Amy came up with the idea to get rid of Mary Jo, Amy asked her boyfriend Paul to help her to get a gun, after that Paul didn’t want to help, later on Amy learned from a friend of her, that maybe Peter Guagenti, can help her to get a gun, so Amy and her friend when to visit Peter, and two days later, Amy and Peter went to executed Amy’s plan to kill Mary Jo....
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...government is trying to limit our gun freedom; in doing this they are taking away our own personal protection package. One pull of the finger and you can stop a person or animal dead in their tracks. Most of the time you wouldn’t have to pull the trigger, just the sight of the gun can stop them. In 2005-2010, there have been about 213 justified firearm homicides per year, 2.5 million defensive gun uses with only 0.00852 percent that led to a death (David Frum). That’s close to nothing. If a gun wasn’t involved who knows how many more casualties there would have been. How many more families would be making one less dinner plate at night? When owning a gun, you have to be well educated in how to use it. If you don’t know how to properly use the weapon, it could lead to injury or even death. If someone broke into your house and had a gun, what could you do if you didn’t know how to use it safely? You would be shot or even killed. Good for you, you just wasted money on a gun that could have saved your life if you knew how to use it. It’s like buying a car with manual transmission and never learned how to drive one. It is just wasted money and space. It could even lead to death to you or another person. A gun in trained hands can be a very lethal weapon. Owning a gun and knowing how it operates creates a sense of security. Not only can you use your gun for protection, but you can also use it to provide food for your family. To get a gun, I do believe that you should...
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...The Susan Smith case caught national attention in the twentieth century as the entire nation followed a desperate mother’s loss for her abducted sons, to the unexpected reveal of the same mother as a merciless woman who drowned her own children. Years have past since the incident, and Smith remained incarcerated and in mourning for her irreversible actions and the forever loss of two innocent lives. In an attempt to understand Susan Smith’s abnormal dependence on other individuals and her deviant behaviour of murdering her children, Sampson and Laub’s Age-Graded Theory of Informal Social Control offers an explanation to the collapse of Smith’s social capital as the causation of the terrible crime. Offender’s Background Susan Vaughan Smith...
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...Gun Control, An Idea That’s Time Has Come As a Criminal Justice student I lean toward the gun control side of the current debate. In his Federalist Papers James Madison said, “Americans have the right and advantage of being armed – unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms” (Raymond). Madison may be right about our citizens having more rights than those in other countries, but our government places too much trust in the American people. If you take away privately owned guns, it does not solve anything because doing so would consequentially create a communist or police state. Instead of taking away the guns, a better solution is to control who buys guns and for what purpose they should be used. Opponents of gun control may say that a seven-day waiting period before being able to buy a gun does nothing to help fight or prevent crime or to save lives, it is needed to keep more people from dying, to keep people from being robbed, and to keep guns out of the hands of known criminals. There are over 283 million licensed guns in the U.S. (Herbert 1), and that does not include unregistered and illegal weapons that people own, sell to and buy from unlicensed or criminal sources. The Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution grants Americans the right to “bear arms,” but when they kill innocent people or even themselves, should all Americans have that right? More than 50% of U.S. homes own one or more guns (White 1). The question...
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...day his corpse was found an electrician reports his findings. The police and fire department arrive. Pictures are taken of the scene, and then handed to detectives to enhance the report of the incident that took place on the street of Lake Washington Boulevard. As news spreads of the musician’s tragedy fans gather at his house and a memorial service is performed in his honor (Kurt and Courtney). I now tell you the story of how and when Kurt Donald Cobain’s body was found. An electrician, Gary Smith, from the company Veca Electric arrives at the lavish home of Kurt Cobain, as previously scheduled on April 8th, 1994 (McNerthney). It’s an early Saturday morning in Seattle, Washington (McNerthney) when the married, middle aged electrician drives up the long, black top coated, pathway that leads to the properties garage (Electrician).With the rather large home to his right and beautiful green shrubbery to his left, he...
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...She just hopes she isn't too late. When they arrive, she starts looking for Mattie. Instead of finding Mattie, she finds Zane. She sees him carrying something outside and questions him. She confronts him for being the one behind the murders. He doesn't answer, and then a querulous Evelyn comes out and starts lighting a match. She was going to kindle a fire. The thing he was carrying was a gasoline canister. Confused, Vee runs back into the house and starts yelling, “Fire! Get out of the house!” All of the convivial teens started fleeing out of the house like madmen. Then she looks for Mattie. When she finds her she is drunk on a couch. She tries to get her out of there but she was walking like a baby taking their first steps. On their way out, Vee spots Samantha, but she can't carry both of them at the same time. She goes back in to get her but the smoke got to her and she started choking. She passes out and a vision. She sees her mother, and she also sees her other sister...
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