Just recently, Levi Tillemann, a democratic candidate campaigning for a seat in the US House of Representatives, released a new campaign video advertisement in preparation for the upcoming election. In the ad, which took idiocy to a new level, he absurdly suggested that the solution put forward by republicans to arm well-trained volunteers with firearms would lead to innocent kids being killed and claimed that arming them with pepper spray was a better alternative. The democratic House candidate
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on many issues including school violence, gun control, bullying, child rearing, parental responsibility, school climates, video games, violent media, social permissiveness, race, and religion. The main concern of the shooting was why it happened instead of what happened. After the worldwide news media coverage of the Columbine massacre, students started making fake bomb threats to their schools, drawing enemy’s lists, issuing death threats, and taking guns to school. The Columbine Massacre gave voice
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Guns and Violent Crime “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 Charters of Freedom, n.d.). The National Rifle Association (NRA) is widely recognized as America’s foremost defender of the Second Amendment. Wayne LaPierre executive vice president and CEO of the NRA made the statement, “the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun” (LaPierre, 2012, p.5). Is
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prominent include, gun availability, drugs, addition of youth gang members, past experiences, and underprivileged communities. The availability of firearms may very well provoke violence among gangs. Though many believe that the leniency of gun laws in the South are making it easier for gun trafficking, closer inspection shows that a large part of firearms are purchased much closer to home. Studies in Chicago have shown that there is one particular supplier that many favor, Chuck's Gun Store, located
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The Founding Fathers demanded a “bill of rights” that would protect the people from the government. Therefore the bill of rights was added to the Constitution to make sure we had certain liberties that other countries do not give their citizens. This bill of right would make sure that the new government would not treat citizens like the old Government. So the bill of rights was the name given to the first ten amendments of the United States Constitution. These amendments guarantee
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The early morning of April 20, 1999 was filled with the wonderful smell of breakfast in the air, the everyday sound of school buses driving on their way to pick up children, and the sound of teenagers laughing together on their way to school. It was a normal, promising day in the small town of Littleton, Colorado. But in a few hours, that beautiful day suddenly became a horrible nightmare the world would not soon forget. At approximately 11:10 am, two teenage students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold
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problem is to add limitations on the right to bear arms or the means to keep a weapon. President Barack Obama recently stated that, “We know that states with the most gun laws tend to have the fewest gun deaths. So the notion that gun laws don’t work, or just will make it harder for law-abiding citizens and criminals to still get their guns is not borne out by the evidence.” This thus shows that there are issues disregarding whether fire arm restrictions have an impact on American citizens. As a result
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Forty-Nine. There were Forty-nine people killed in Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida on June 12th, 2016. Until October 1st of the next year, this was the deadliest mass shooting in American history. After the incident, the media began to spread the idea that the attack was not motivated by sexual orientation. This was not true. The shooter was Omar Mateen, a 29 year old security guard. According to his father, Mateen had previously expressed his distaste for LGBT people. This can be related to
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personally think people should just accept or at least look away from gay marriage if they are against it. One should worry for their own life and not others, therefore I believe that marriage should not be overturned, but rather be left alone. The negative of Gay marriage is that originally and socially marriage is supposed to be between
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(The Movement Against Bullying). With the presence an armed officer students would know exactly who to talk to when a problem arises, bullies are also less likely to come at an officer who is armed. As a result, they ensure every bully victims protection and decrease student
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