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    40 percent of households own guns‚ and if we were going to ban them there would be a real issue. president: Well yes‚ it is in our set of amendments that allows us to bare arms. Also the 2nd amendment states that you have the right to obtain a well regulated militia for the security of the state‚ but we can argue we don’t need it any more. News reporter 2 : About how much crime is involved with guns? President: For example over a l00‚000 americans are shot and killed each year‚ and that’s

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    Readers Response to George Orwell’s Shooting an Elephant The first time I found myself reading the short story “Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell was during my senior year of high school. As an animal lover‚ the title was as intriguing as it was unappealing. Why would you want to shoot an elephant? That question is one that the character‚ the author himself‚ asks throughout the story as it’s told. It starts by introducing himself as a white sub-divisional police officer serving in Moulmein

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    George Orwell’s short story “Shooting an Elephant‚” is set in Burma during the British rule. The narrator is a white policeman who is forced to shoot an elephant that has gone rogue and is destroying crops and buildings and has killed one person. He gathers his guns and sets off in the direction of the rogue elephant and his following of natives increases as he gets closer to the elephant. The elephant’s owner is not in town so he is forced to make a decision about shooting the elephant. The narrator

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    enforcement shooting. We will be looking at what goes through an officer’s mind before and after an officer involved shooting‚ the public’s opinion of the shooting‚ are they ethical and what happens during and after the investigation of the shooting. We will also look into have there been more police involved shootings in the past year or are we just more aware of the shootings due to the coverage of the shootings by the media.There have been a number of police officer involved shooting of suspects

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    School shootings in general are tragic‚ because they often affect innocent victims and almost always could have been prevented. In the given scenario Harless actions are in fact unstoppable‚ but the actions of the faculty are quite the opposite. The school went about the situation completely wrong. Instead of confronting the students once notified they are possibly in possession of a firearm‚ they should have notified law enforcement‚ worked to secure the area then isolate Harless and McCoy. In this

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    else is the greatest accomplishment.” In the essays “Salvation” and “Shooting an Elephant” authors Langston Hughes and George Orwell convey the similar message that anything of importance‚ can’t be forced on anyone‚ they rather have to find it for themselves. Orwell was about twenty years old when he went to the village of Burma to work as an officer for the British. The story focuses on a moment in his life involving shooting an elephant. Hughes on the other hand‚ was a young boy who was brought

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    School shootings have been in an uproar in the past couple decades; and there have been times they have tried to slow the occurrences of them by. Stricter gun control‚upgraded security‚ and training teachers‚ and students in situations of shootings happening. The training could be beneficial and enhance their ability under stressful situations. The problem is that gun control is not the problem‚ and teachers having guns is controversial. But the more and more shootings that happen in schools

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    In the month of march 2015‚ there was 97 shooting during that month. All of which was between a policeman and a civilian. One of the biggest case was in Nov 2014‚ MIchael Brown and a friend rob a liquor store‚ then officer Darren wilson pulls up and notices thats them who robbed it. He tells them to go to the side walk. After that Michael tries and run away‚ but Darren Wilson shoots him. I think that lethal force should be used if they are uncertain‚ or the person has a gun and is about to shoot

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    senior editor of USA today and Mother Jones stated that in 2002‚ there was a mass shooting that happened in Appalachian School of Law in Virginia. The killer was stopped by armed students‚ but those students were current and former law enforcement officers. Also‚ the killer was out of bullet when they subdued him. (More guns More mass shootings) This shows no matter how responsible the gun owners are‚ if they don’t know how to handle the life threatening situations‚ it becomes more dangerous because

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    (Orwell 67). He has been relatively successful because through his use of symbolism he avoids the didactic preaching that most intelligent people dismiss as manipulation or propaganda. The elephant‚ the most memorable and moving image in his essay “Shooting an Elephant‚” must have political significance. The elephant‚ with its many human characteristics‚ symbolizes the Burmese people in that it is dominated and oppressed‚ it rebels against that dominance and oppression‚ and it dies a slow‚ agonizing

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