has been inundated with deadly shootings. After every mass shooting, many Americans wonder if something could have been done to prevent these tragedies. The meaning of the 2nd Amendment comes to the forefront. The United States has the 2nd Amendment, gun laws and other protective amendments in the Constitution to give us the freedom we have fought for as Americans. I do not believe that the 2nd Amendment should be repealed or amended. The 2nd Amendment in the Constitution in short states the right to
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when solving crimes against nature. Forensic science measures facts involving a crime and figure out the truth behind those measurements. Whether it is the skid marks from a vehicle collision or blood splatter analysis; mathematics is the reason why this can be done. Forensics have paved the way to a better justice system providing factual based evidence based upon math laws that are accepted as truth. The study of ballistics and the trajectory of bullets is a crucial element in crime solving strategy
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years. The internet and videogames that are filled of violence are responsible of children’s behavior they have taken total control of their actions. Children are inundated with violence in all forms like never before. One of the causes of violent crimes in America are videogames and the internet that are factors that expose kids to violence. Basically, videogames have changed throughout time. Now, videogames have changed to nonviolent to violent. Before the most famous video games there was Mario
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“Guns don’t kill people, people kill people.” This quote has a whole new meaning since the law giving Illinois Residents the option to carry a weapon on their persons passed last year. Gun violence in our society has increased rapidly over the past couple of years. Many people would argue that the newly signed laws regarding residents being able to carry a concealed weapon contribute to that increase. Guns are not meant to be used as toys for individuals but yet so many people abuse the privilege
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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
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having more guns on campus. “On June 1, 2015, Gov. Greg Abbott signed S.B. 11, also known as the "campus carry" law. S.B. 11 provides that license holders may carry a concealed handgun throughout university campuses, starting Aug. 1, 2016” (Campus Carry). People are still debating whether or not allowing campus carry was the right thing to do. In most cases, it wasn’t. Allowing students, professors, and administration to be given the right of campus carry leads to more violent crimes, higher taxes
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Gun control in America Some gun control laws should stay the same because gun related deaths have dropped, it is our Second Amendment right, but some state laws should change to keep guns out of schools. Barrett (2013) discusses that gun violence is declining in the U.S. Figures from the United States Bureau of Justice and that gun related deaths have dropped 39% since 1993 (Truman, P.H.D & Planty, Ph.D., 2013). The author also states that handguns are mostly responsible gun related deaths
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if the person committing the crime thinks it is satisfactory? In John Steinbeck’s novella, Of Mice and Men , George Milton is confronted with these questions, which have major consequences, with little time to think of the possible outcomes. Even though George may be able to keep his crime hidden, the law is the law. If a person disobeys it they pay. Ignorance of the law is no excuse and Lennie would have been better off in prison serving out a sentence for the crime he committed. Thus, George should
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demonstrate that because illegal drug trafficking is so inextricably linked to international crime and terrorism, there is a critical need to increase Department of Defense initiatives, in conjunction with the other elements of national power, to develop a decisive anti-drug cartel strategy that will provide security for not only our nation but other nations as well and its citizens at home and abroad. Narcotics, guns and violence, the powerful elements of a never ending war. All these elements are part
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