Instead of a total gun ban‚ groups on both sides of the gun debate on Thursday urged senators to pass a bill that would enforce stricter gun controls to prevent crimes related to loose firearms. Sen. Gringo Honasan‚ chairman of the committee on public order‚ said a “comprehensive” bill that spells out graver penalties for possession of unregistered firearms could still be approved in the nine remaining session days between January and February if President Aquino certifies the bill as urgent. Honasan
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allowed to carry a concealed weapons permit on campus. Some claim that their rights have been violated because most college campus forbids the use of any firearm or weapon on campus. The right to carry a gun is not the problem here‚ but rather or not people would allow guns on college campuses. It is our right‚ as the Constitution states‚ to grant citizens the right to bear arms. Being from the South‚ I am no stranger to seeing guns from time-to-time‚ but it is not appropriate for guns to be in a
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4-1 assessment 1. Political system- is the means by which people in a society make the rules that control and influence their lives. 2. Democracy- all citizens have the opportunity to take part in making the rules that govern them. 3. Totalitarian system- most people are excluded from making the rules by which they live. Political control is held by one person‚ a small group of people‚ or one political party. 4. Host country- is the country in which a multinational enterprise is a guest. 5
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Changing place of women Going back to era of the 1800’s leading to the 1920’s onto now. Women were born to a life of just having a domestic role in their lives. Being a housewife was their only job. Cleaning‚ cooking‚ and taking care of their children were their normal way of living. Therefore‚ doing something out of the ordinary at that time was considered unacceptable and immoral. Although women wanted to enhance their role to be able to work or go to school‚ it was not until the 1920’s that
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Gun Control If gun control is altered‚ then we will have less criminals roaming the streets. Access to firearms makes murder easy‚ efficient‚ and nonpersonal‚ which increases the chance a crime will be committed. Josh Sugarmann‚ the Executive Director of the Violence Policy Center has once said‚ "We recoil in horror and search for explanations‚ but we never face up to the obvious preventive measure: a ban on the easy killing machines that makes murder and robbery so easy.” Allowing uncertified
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Does gun control reduce crime rate? Abstract Over the past few months‚ people across the nation have been debating about gun control. Topics ranging from firearm restrictions to background checks have been heavily discussed by both emotion and logic‚ by both gun supporters and gun control activists‚ and it seems like there is no middle ground for both parties to agree on. Crime rates influence guns demanded for self-protection‚ and guns demanded by criminals depend upon
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There is a famous quote‚ which states: "Guns don’t kill people‚ people kill people." This quote is technically true. But if there are no guns‚ it will be a whole lot more difficult for people to kill people. Sure people could use different weapons such as knives and golf clubs to kill people. But the victim will have a significant better chance of defending him or herself from a weapon other than firearms. I was born in Tokyo‚ Japan and moved to the United States when I was six. I still go
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writing this to tell you how much I love the state of Alabama. There are many different reasons to why I would love the state I live in‚ but it isn’t just because I live in it. My family grew up in Alabama this is where they were raised. They were born and bred country ‚literally. In Alabama there is so much history to what happened here. There is so much southern hospitality and kindness in Alabama. That’s why everyone here is such good friends‚ because there are so many kind and dear people here. The
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She Walks in Beauty Written in 1814‚ when Byron was twenty-six years old‚ and published in Hebrew Melodies in 1815‚ the poem of praise "She Walks in Beauty" was inspired by the poet’s first sight of his young cousin by marriage‚ Anne Wilmot. According to literary historians‚ Byron’s cousin wore a black gown that was brightened with spangles. This description helps the reader understand the origin of the poem‚ and its mixing together of images of darkness and light‚ but the poem itself cannot
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Peaceful resistance to laws positively impacts a free society because it informs and educates the government on how Americans react to certain laws. This can be observed in many of the current events that are going on in America today and have gone on the past the past. One prime example of this is during the 1960’s Civil Rights Movement. Charismatic leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr. peacefully influenced American politics and ultimately brought about the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which disallowed
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