on the 28th of April 1996‚ just three weeks after John Howard came into office‚ 35 people were murdered and 23 wounded in the Port Arthur Massacre in Tasmania. The shooter‚ Martin Bryant ‚ who used various firearms‚ was given 35 life sentences without the possibility of parole. Bryant had major intellectual disabilities. All the fire arms used in the massacre were purchased without a fire arms licence.
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Cited: Bateman‚ Robert. “Wounded Knee: Who Spoke the Truth?” Military History 24.4 (2007): 62-69. History Study Center. Wed. 12 Sept. 2011. Black‚ Elk‚ and John Gneisenau Niehardt. “Accounts of the Wounded Knee Massacre.” Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux. Lincoln: University of Nebraska‚ 1988. MyHistoryLab | Person. Person‚2009. Wed. 12 Sept. 2011. Charles. Phillips. “A Day To Remember: December 29‚ 1890.” American History
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colleges are trying to come close (“Campus Safety”). The first reported college campus shooting took place at the University of Texas at Austin on August 1‚ 1966. The shooter was identified as a student named Charles Joseph Whitman. The shooting massacre took place on the same day Whitman murdered his wife and mother at their homes. After killing his wife and mother‚ Whitman climbed to the upper observation deck at The University of Texas in Austin and went on a shooting rampage that lasted 96 minutes
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were very discontented with the plan that allocated a large part of their territory to the Zionists. [Both began to arm themselves and a civil war ensued;] During this period there were abuses committed by both sides‚ such as the Deir Yassin massacre by the Irgun and Lehi‚ and the attack on a Jewish convoy by the Arabs; By May 1948‚ when the Israel State was proclaimed‚ the fighting had prompted a mass exodus of Palestinian Arabs. Award [1 mark] for each valid point up to [2 marks]. Do not
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counseling by teachers and peers. A little over a year before the massacre‚ Cho was accused
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and deeper background check to purchase a gun would reduce the amount of violence with guns. However‚ I find the tragedy at Virginia tech and similar events at Columbine‚ Tucson and other school shootings to be alarming. I do not believe that the massacre perpetrated by the mentally ill student Cho Seung Hui should result in the passage of new gun laws or change in other states’ policies regarding the purchase of guns. In the report of review panel one of the key findings was “Cho purchased two guns
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thousands of miles away. It had all the makings to become the most unpopular American war ever. Since Vietnam did not go well at all for the US Military many people did not support the war and its soldiers. The use of Agent Orange on top of the My Lai massacre gave U.S. citizens all the ammunition they needed to wage a war to protest the actual war. Springsteen did not like how soldiers and Veterans were being
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Virginia Tech massacre From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Virginia Tech Massacre | Students gather to mourn after the shooting. | Location | Blacksburg‚ Virginia‚ United States | Coordinates | 37°13′46″N 80°25′23″WCoordinates: 37°13′46″N 80°25′23″W | Date | Monday‚ April 16‚ 2007ca. 7:15 a.m. and ca. 9:40 a.m.–9:51 a.m.[1] (EDT) | Attack type | School shooting‚ mass murder‚ murder-suicide‚ massacre | Weapon(s) | Glock 19‚ Walther P22 | Death(s) | 33 (including the perpetrator)[1]
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The Vietnam War -A History project- Nadine Gan‚ Grade 9 Part One. The Overview History ~ French Indochina ~ Vietnamisation ~ Epilogue Vietnam was a part of the French colony‚ Indo-‐China. Then at September 1940‚ the Japanese decided to invade Vietnam to prevent China from sending supplies through French Indo-‐China. Having invaded by
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crimes that happened between 1900 to 2008. Guns were used in 54 percent of the cases‚ but 60 percent of the cases the criminal attacked somebody they had known. The chances of another “Virgina Tech Massacre” are very slim (Birnbaum). The strength of Pro-Guns argument is what if another shooting massacre did happen on the college campuses. The criminal would less likely attack if they believed the students and professors around them had firearms (Birnbaum). Anti-Guns have their own strengths and weaknesses
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