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    stricter gun control. The truth is that the right to carry concealed weapons enables law-abiding citizens to protect themselves against crime. Opponents have concerns that the right to carry concealed weapons would cause people to lose their tempers easily‚ police officers would be killed more often‚ and crime would increase‚ but these concerns have all been proven unfounded. Opponents believe that people who carry concealed weapons will lose their temper wherever they may be‚ and shoot someone. The

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    problem with severe economic consequences. Although fighting is not new to them‚ warfare seems to re-emerge in 1970s with a new set of causes. It is believed that the introduction of western goods may have resulted in changes in economic arrangements‚ marriage patterns‚ and‚ ultimately‚ warfare. A little information about how warfare started and its causes: After decades of pacification and relative peace‚ intergroup warfare reemerged in the Papua New Guinea highlands during the late 1960s and early

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    Why the Need for Nuclear Weapons? Nuclear Weapons‚ should they be abolished or made to kill off the world? I understand that since World War II‚ many countries have started to become nuclear nations. United States‚ Russia‚ China‚ and Israel are just a few. These countries are major superpowers‚ besides Israel‚ and that can be a very dangerous thing for them all to have nuclear weapons and have the possibility of one supreme entity deciding that they want to launch a nuke

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    Since the introduction of gunpowder into Europe‚ it has gone on to dominate warfare into the twentieth century. With the development of the first European guns in the fourteenth century‚ armies were given use of a weapon which was to radically alter most of the ways of making war which had been established during the Middle Ages‚ and changes began to be seen within only a few years. It is‚ however‚ questionable whether the nature of these early changes constituted a revolution in the methods of war

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    Novel Weapons Hypothesis (NWH) suggests that invasive plant species can potentially out-compete native species due to their allelopathic (phototoxic and/or antimicrobial) chemicals. This use of “novel weapons” is usually thought of as a form of competition due to its potential to degrade the metabolism of neighboring plant species. Because native plants have not previously encountered the toxins released from the invasive allelopathic species‚ they have no evolved defences. The Novel Weapons Hypothesis

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    2013 on Academic One File. Keen‚ Maurice. Medieval Warfare: a history. Oxford New York: Oxford University Press‚ 1999. Mortimer‚ Ian. “What Hundred Years War?.” History Today 59 (2009): 27-33. Accessed September 16‚ 2013 on JSTOR. “The Sack of Limoges: On warfare without chivalry” in Sources of Western Society‚ edited by McKay‚ John P. et al.‚ 195-196. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s‚ 2010. Source Analysis-On warfare without chivalry On Warfare without Chivalry(The Sack of

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    Less Than Lethal Weapons For many years law enforcement has faced controversy about officer involved shootings. The use of non-lethal force has alleviated a lot of these occurrences. Law enforcement now has many options other than firing there guns. Some developments in the less than lethal weapons include the taser which is a stun gun that incapacitates a human target by generating a series of powerful electrical output pulses across first and second space apart output terminals in response to

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    Weapons and Personal Protective Equipment Debra McCain University of Phoenix Concepts of Physical and Personal Protection-CJA/585 Morris Cotton January 18‚ 2010 Weapons and Personal Protective Equipment When protecting individuals from others that may wish to do them harm‚ kidnap them‚ or just be near them because they think that the person he or she is stalking is theirs in some way it is important to protect oneself first. In today’s world of popularity of movie stars and political figures

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    The US propelled atomic weapons in the mornings of August sixth and August ninth of 1945 to Japan‚ producing a huge number of honest deads‚ without tallying the back ones caused by the radiation that was in the place. Atomic weapons are probably the most huge executing gadgets weapons that have ever existed. This weapon can burn people that are in the epicenter of the bomb and the spots encompassing it in not more than seconds. This weapon ought to be dispensed with from earth since it is a peril

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    Many debates took place discussing the effectiveness of PATRIOT weapon systems. This statement was made to “General Uri Ram (retired)‚ who commanded the Patriot units in Israel during the war‚ was quoted in an interview as saying‚ […] ‘Let’s get the record straight. Patriot was a success‚ but it wasn’t perfect. ...Patriot

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