laws are being drawn up to give the right to citizens to sue gun manufacturers. If this is passed who will be next‚ car manufacturers‚ toy companies? The cause of a crime needs to be addressed‚ not the instrument used. Stronger enforcement of the existing laws would help with gun crimes. There is a need for gun laws. Though the more than 20‚000 laws on the federal‚ state and local books have not deterred the violent use of guns. Some gun control laws may save lives. For instance the five day waiting
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Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice http://ccj.sagepub.com/ Peers and Gun Use Among Urban Adolescent Males : An Examination of Social Embeddedness Deanna L. Wilkinson‚ Marquette S. McBryde‚ Brice Williams‚ Shelly Bloom and Kerryn Bell Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice 2009 25: 20 DOI: 10.1177/1043986208328449 The online version of this article can be found at: http://ccj.sagepub.com/content/25/1/20 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com Additional services and
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debate on gun control. Should civilians be able to buy automatic weapons? What about high-capacity ammunition clips? Are guns helpful at all? Such questions have arisen after every new account of a shooting‚ which seem to occur quite often based on their prevalent coverage on mainstream media outlets. Furthermore‚ with such strong stances on pro-
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Similarly‚ a year later Slovak conducted another study on gun violence and children. This study examine the effects that gun violence exposure have on youth mental health and how trauma is associated with gun violence exposure (Slovak‚ 2002). According to research gun statistics‚ in the United States violent injury and death from a gun affect children and adolescents in urban settings (Slovak‚ 2002). The researchers investigate violence exposure and its relationship to mental health risk and they
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A Public Policy Analysis of Gun Law & Gun Control Dannelle Diaz ECN 401 ANC Introduction Definition of Public policy; “a system of laws‚ regulatory measures‚ courses of action‚ and funding priorities concerning a given topic promulgated by a governmental entity or its representatives”(MUSC‚2000) Every moment of existence as a part of any society‚ absolutely any society is tremendously influenced by public policy. In the context of the American government and Public Policy‚ it is
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Gun Rights/Gun Control I will be conducting my essay on gun control/gun rights. I honestly don’t think that hunters need springfield semi-automatic rifle or a semi-automatic rifle similar to an ak-47 with a 30 round clip! If you go on cabelas.com you will see that they are selling guns labelled as self and home defense‚ but they are semi-automatic shotguns! you could buy a semi-auto gun on the internet to ship to you for a low cost of 300 dollars. A student‚ mentally ill person or just flat out
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Paper-Gun Control Gun control is government regulation on the manufacture‚ sale‚ and possession of firearms. As a heavily debated and very controversial matter‚ many advocates undoubtedly have different opinions. In the forthcoming paragraphs‚ I will discuss those differing opinions. Presented from two separate articles‚ the opinions discussed will be those of two different authors who have their own viewpoint as to why gun control is or isn’t necessary. In Russ Thurman’s article‚ “Guns up. Crime
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Gun Control: Worse For Us Than We Know Almost everyone living in this country should have witnessed such debates. Some people might not have listened to a formal debate‚ but an informal gun control debate is being carried on by many groups and individuals. It is very unlikely that someone has not listened to one. Recall the occasions when you were traveling or waiting somewhere hearing the neighbors discussing gun control pros and cons. These conversations are also gun control debates in the wider
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messages concerning the low gun control and the high murder rate in “the land of the free”. Directed by Michael Moore‚ the documentary shows the follies of the National Rifle Association (NRA) and the US government‚ often in a satirical fashion. This use of humour and other techniques allowed Moore to win many awards for the documentary‚ including the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature 2003‚ but the largest victory ‘Bowling for Columbine’ had was the awareness regarding gun laws it created during
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English 1302 5th march 2013 Sides of Crime Control Gun control laws have been surrounded by controversy since The Bill of Rights‚ including the Second amendment was passed in the congress. "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 founders wrote. Until recently there was considerable argument over just what the founders intended by their words. Did they mean to provide only for armed
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