...Thank you, America, for selecting me as your candidate for the democratic party. I assure you that this beautiful nation will be safe in the hands of an intelligent and responsible president who received proper education at Yale University. I will make America a safe place to be for all people, and make sure that every resident of this country will get the respect they deserve. There are many issues that America is struggling with, and I promise that I will solve them and make this wonderful country even better. Gun control is a crucial issue. More than 33,000 Americans are killed by guns each year, and it is time to act. Gun safety directly affects the nation’s safety, all citizen’s safety, and more importantly, your safety. At the moment, gun safety is not enforced enough and I will fix that as president. I will enforce gun laws diligently. I will make schools gun-free zones to protect our promising next generation. I support comprehensive background checks and a reform I will institute is that people on the no-fly list or terror watch list will not be allowed to purchase guns. This will improve our gun safety by not allowing past offenders of gun laws to get their hands on a gun again. I believe that each and every student in...
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...------------------------------------------------- School bus From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This article is about vehicles specifically designed and manufactured for carrying students to and from school. For information about school transportation in general, see student transport. | This article may be too long to read and navigate comfortably. Please considersplitting content into sub-articles or condensing it. (February 2013) | School bus | Front 3/4 view of a typical North American school bus (IC Bus CE-Series) | Interior view of an empty school bus (Thomas Saf-T-Liner C2) | Overview | Manufacturer | List of school bus manufacturers | Body and chassis | Doors | Front entry/exit door; rear/side emergency exit door(s) | Chassis | Cutaway van Cowled chassis Stripped chassis | Powertrain | Engine | Various fuel types (see article) | Capacity | 10-90 passengers, depending on floor plan | Transmission | * Automatic * Manual | Dimensions | Length | Up to 45 feet (13.7 m) | Width | Up to 102 inches (2,591 mm) | Curb weight | ≤10,000–36,000 pounds (4,536–16,329 kg) (GVWR) | Chronology | Predecessor | Kid hacks | A school bus (also called schoolbus) in North America is a type of busspecifically designed and manufactured for student transport: carrying students to and from school and school events. School buses provide an estimated 10 billion student trips every year; over half of the USA's student population is transported by school bus. Each school day in 2013...
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...Gun Control in America Gun Control in America has led to many deaths nationwide. Every day we lose thousands of people lives that have been killed by guns. This whole gun control system that we have today in america has not seem to decrease the violence but increase it, since many criminals find a way to get a hold of a firearm. The gun violence we are having is created because of the lack of politics being careless for their people's safety, by the regulations on gun control, and how criminals have access to guns. The law was introduced back in 1934 when the federal government started its gun control policies in order to stop gang violence which was called the National Firearms Act of 1934. Ever since then it has not helped stop the violence and it seems that the issue has grown over the years and it is now a major problem. When the issue really struct the people was when there was school shootings, which really impacts america by making the school safety a failure since criminals enter heavily armed to a school campus.One major school shooting was “two high school teens Eric Harris, 18 and Dylan Klebolod, 17 had killed 13 people and wounded 20 more before commiting suicide on April 20, 1999 at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado” (History.com staff). The crime was...
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... Dr. Kimberly Stanley December 8, 2013 Gun control in America is a debate that is a constant concern about the 2nd Amendment or the right to bear arms. Having the freedom to carry a gun is a very controversial issue in society today. There are many people who feel that guns has been a problem and part of the reason there is so much crime. In 1994 a crime bill was passed by President Bill Clinton that would prohibit just anyone from owning a gun (Washington Times vol0). As long as guns are made readily available for Americans to own them, tragedies such as the 1999 columbine school killing that 13 people were killed and wounding countless of others (Cullens2000,p 439) will continue to happen. Gun control policies should be stricter for people who wants to own a gun and for the store owners who sale them. The Hoffman Gun Center and Indoor Range require that gun owners have pistol permits that want to buy assault rifles. According to the Department of Emergency Services and Public Safety the law requires that a person who wants to buy a gun be at least 21 years of age, no convicted felonies, background check, and take a safety and storage course (Hoffman, 2001, newspaper). In America at least 400 children will die because of unintentional gun injuries. This happens when children find guns indoors improperly stored and they play with them with their friends or...
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...Essay Topic: use of cellphones in school Cell phones should be allowed to use in every school in the united states. Although cell phones can be a distraction during class time also can be helpful for students and teachers. There are many reasons to allowed students use their phones during school. The cellphone can provide safety to students and also it can be used as a learning tool for them. Instead of having schools wasting time trying to get rid of cellphones, we need more schools giving cellphones an educational usage for their students. Now almost every teenager own a cellphone, tablet, or a device used for entertainment. Many schools since these devices appeared have watching it as a problem for their institutions. Schools don't realize the real capacity of the cellphones. If schools start making students to use their cellphones to learn,research, and read it would be easier to learn. Students would not text or play with their phones because they would be learning on their phones. There are a lot of educational apps like electronic books,calculators, word processors educational games and they can access to educational websites. These things would improve every school and student of America. Not only better education improves a school also a very important factor is the safety. The main reason some parents buy cellphones to their children is because it provides safety to them. You dont know what can happen during school, students could have an accident , an attack...
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... Abstract America’s first encounter with campus violence was in 1966, which occurred at the University of Texas. The U.S. had not seen the last of campus violence, because the next outbreak was in 1999, 33 years later when the Columbine massacre occurred. This tragedy was an eye opener for America, to rethink the safety of its schools and campuses. As tragic as these events were and devastating to the American people, safety of its schools and campuses had not happened. In addition to these two tragic events, another deadly massacre happened on America’s campuses. The massacre of Virginia Tech, this tragic event was one of the U.S. most deadly campus violence that had occurred in America’s history of campus violence. If these tragic events did not really make America reevaluate its campus safety and gun laws, will it take another campus shooting for the people in office to wake up and do something about the senseless loss of innocent lives. Sadly enough American had another deadly shooting, but this one did not happen on a college or even a high school campus. This incident happened in an elementary school, taken the lives of innocent...
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...Connecticut Gun Safety A fundamental purpose of the political system is to deal with matters of public policy. One of the major matters in public policy that Connecticut has been facing is the issue of gun safety and control. Gun control and safety laws in the state of Connecticut have changed over time and are continuing to change. The issue of gun control and safety if one of the most controversial and heated topics in the state as well as across the country. Gun control requires regulating the sale, possession, and use of firearms by civilians within the state. This issue has become incredibly challenging in the state following the school shooting in December 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary school. Since that dreadful day six years...
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...They feel laws restricting gun use punish honest citizens. They believe that the governments continuously implementation of laws that restrict guns use is unconstitutional. In my opinion, the government should enforce more restrictions on gun use and gun possession to ensure the safety of children and the people in America. I will support my claim with events, incidences, and statistics that prove guns pose a threat to children. Loose restrictions on gun use or gun possession have had a negative effect on the safety of schools. Because of numerous school massacres, parents are no longer assured of their child's safety in school. There have been various cases of school massacres that have led to the death of many children and students in schools. Very popular cases of school massacres include the Sandy Hook Elementary School, The Columbine High school, and the Virginia tech massacre. All these cases illustrate the danger guns pose to children in...
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...The unbalanced stance in which the United States of America finds itself is not only unhealthy but also will cause the eventual demise of our once great nation. This problem is gun violence. Which works much like an earthquake, as it can’t be predicted and hits the un-expecting citizens hard. But how might we as a nation prepare for these treacherous attacks by lunatics that in the end have clear motive? I believe I have the answer, in Japan where there are many earthquakes throughout the year; the children wear helmets to and from school. So why not apply that concept to the children of America. Much like the Japanese children who are trained to use their helmets effectively incase of an earthquake, we can train children to use guns that we give them in case of a shooting. Before tossing aside this argument as insulting, and...
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...There should be stricter regulations on guns in the United States. Politicians, in recent years especially, have had very hotly debated discussions about gun control in America. Both sides of the arguments are driven by fear. People who want easy accessibility to guns are afraid of being without protection, while people who want more regulations on guns are afraid of senseless gun violence. Many pro-gun people are immediately put off by gun reforms without consideration of how valuable the reforms could be to the overall violence problem in America. Australia, for example, has very strict gun laws but people still have guns, and there is hardly any gun violence. The current gun laws in the United States have been insufficient in controlling...
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...alcohol by the end of their senior year of high school. Almost two-thirds of all American young people try illicit drugs before they finish high school.” If substance abuse is left untreated, it will cause violence in streets, such as crimes, kidnaping. Also, it will cause domestic violence. For example, many babies are born with drug dependency. There are many basic factors that lead to the use of control substances among American adolescents, how these factors affect our community, and what are the methods used to minimize them. Adolescence is a sensitive period for young people. They are encountered by many basic factors. First of all, family factors, which have the strongest impact on adolescent development, play a part in the influence to try control substances. For example, parents who provide low levels of support, or are not as close to their children, and use bad parenting judgment have children who are more likely to be drug abusers. “The parents are the biggest factor in the choice to drink or drug” (Stephen Artrburn24). Other factors are the social pressure, such as friends and school these significant effects on adolescent. If they have friends or classmates in school using drugs, then they are more likely to use themselves. (One-hundred adolescents calling the hotline 1-800-COCAINE, fifty-seven said they bought their drugs in school” (Stephen Arterburn 5). Drug abuse has changed the social life of America. Using drugs leads to life threating circumstances...
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...Guns Are Not the Problem, People Are Violence in school environments have become a major issue, and there are many precautions we can take to prevent this violence. Precautions such as better background checks before purchasing a gun will greatly decrease deaths due to gun violence. In America, the average number of school shootings is approximately 1.37 per week (Davies). There are too many lives lost throughout the year to gun violence. It is time for America to step it up when addressing the flaws in the laws and regulations in the systems. Seeing that gun violence in school environments have recently become such an issue, the United States must address these issues head on by enforcing more and existing laws and change the laws that contain imperfections. Gun violence has not only spread throughout the United States but also in many other countries as well. On an average day in America, there are at least ninety-six deaths resulting from gun violence (Guns). Every day, seven teens and children from ages zero to nineteen die due to gun violence. This means that four out of...
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...The Boys & Girls Clubs of America Targeted Outreach Strategic Approaches primary approach to gang prevention is to identify and recruit at-risk youth and place them into ongoing Club programs and activities (Boys & Girls Clubs of America, 2008). The Boys & Girls Clubs of America offer health and life skills, sports fitness and recreation and tutoring (Boys & Girls Clubs of America, 2008). The programs and activities of the Club help to develop at-risk youth’s character, creativity, and health and mental skills. In addition, the Targeted Outreach program’s receives referrals from schools, courts, law enforcement, and community youth agencies (Boys & Girls Clubs of America, 2008). These referrals immediately identify at-risk youth for joining gangs. A comprehensive strategy to today’s gang problems incorporates both prevention programs and treatment strategies. Guiding principles are the objectives that the builder of a treatment strategy seeks to achieve (Hess & Drowns, 2004). The guiding principles of a treatment strategy for gang members will develop the framework for structuring the foundation of the core values and philosophies necessary for correcting gang member delinquency. Four guiding principles to be used during the development of an effective treatment strategy for gang members are: 1) encourage compliance with the conditions of probation and drug and alcohol programs; 2) identify and address risk factors for delinquent behaviors and actions in individual, group, and...
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...Unfortunately in the contemporary world, school shootings often occur, and most of the time the victims are young children. Since 1999 after the Columbine shooting in Colorado, school shootings have become particularly frequent, especially in America with Sandy Hook and Stoneman Douglas, yet the US government rarely makes changes. However, a few years before this, a school shooting in the United Kingdom had a very different outcome than the shootings in America. In 1996, Thomas Hamilton killed sixteen students at Dunblane Primary School in Scotland, UK. After the Dunblane Massacre, the government responded to the peoples campaigns to pass sufficient laws and risked negative impacts on the economy to go as far as they could in preventing similar...
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...Imagine the police knocking on your front door, not to arrest you for a crime, but to inform you that your child was murdered in cold blood from a gunshot wound, how would you be able to comprehend such a horrific event? Unfortunately, this is a common occurrence in America “from 2000 to 2010 a total of 335,609 people died from guns” (“Just the facts: Gun violence in America”) these numbers are a striking and often shocking realization of the gun violence in America. . Gun legislation has become a prominent debate among government officials, and the general population has started to demand stricter gun laws. Gun violence is a major issue in our country - a problem we have been unable to address because of political pundits refusing to come...
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