This issue is an extremely debatable topic in today’s media, given the shooting death of a 14 year old African-American boy, Trayvon Marton. Trayvon was fatally shot in the chest on February 26th, 2012 by a 28 year old crime-watch volunteer, George Zimmerman. According to Mr. Zimmerman, Mr, Martin punched him and “bashed” his head on the ground as they fought. According Mr. Martin’s 16 year old girlfriend (on the cell phone with him at the time) Trayvon was pulling up his hood and moving away from Zimmerman. What is clear, according to witnesses, is that there were two cries for help followed by two gun shots.
The United States of America is well known of their firearms law; thousands of guns are in the hands of civilians, causing an average of 30,000 deaths each year, downscale to an average of 85 deaths a day. With the astronomical amount of death only in the states, are the ones who created those firearms to be blamed on or is it the one taking control of the guns? Instead of blaming on the ones who created things that will cause harm to others, the ultimate ones to be blamed on should be the government, the education faculty, due to two main reasons, one, the government shouldn’t be allowing civilians to have firearms at all, it should be the governments responsibility to protect people, not the civilians themselves, if the government made an assumption that civilians are capable to protect themselves from different situation with firearms, what’s the point of hiring policemen? Secondly, if the government thinks that it’s necessary for people to have firearms for whatever reasons, the government should be responsible for ensuring everyone’s using them in the right way to use them and set up regulations, meanwhile, education faculties should be bringing out the correct concept of firearms, the right way and under what situation they are allowed to use the. Summing up the two reasons above, the blame of consequences should be on the government
Nature vs. Nurture debate, people could argue that Robert Pickton was born a generally bad human being and that this behavior couldn’t have been prevented. Though nurture, how he was raised and the things that he had to deal with would explain or almost compensate for his actions. He was raised on a farm and grew up around the slaughtering of animals; he knew murder to be a normal thing. Anthropologists were heavily involved in this case though because when they started searching his pig farm and finding human remains, the anthropologists were the ones to organize the excavations and to study the conditions in which they were discovered in. An anthropologist would also be interested in studying the culture of prostitutes and the atmosphere; drugs and alcohol and how these could play a part in
Adam Lanza the shooter at Newtown stole the guns he used from his mother. (Tucci, 2012) According to Florida State University criminology professor Gary Kleck who has been studying guns and the effects on violence and crime rates, states that gun control laws have no net effect on violence or crime rates. In fact the United States violent crime rate has been falling since 1990, even as the Assault Weapons ban has long since expired. (Tucci, 2012) Some of the Federal data have shown that gun murders in 2010 were 11,078 that is the lowest rate since at least 1981. (Fact Check.org, 2012) Gun robbery in 2011 was 122,300 the lowest rate since 2004.
To help explain their reasoning of a serial killers mind, Wolf and Lavezzi provide two cases of serial killers to analyze. Case one describes the serial killer Gary Evans, a white 43 year old man. Out of South Troy, NY, Evans had a bad reputation with law enforcement. Evans’ main priors had to do with the robbery of antiques, a small offence compared to serial killing. He had a group of close friends that he would commit robberies with, and when three of them went missing in 13 years Evans was thought to be involved with their disappearances.
Respecting the Sport of Hunting Without Being Wasteful Hunters need to be more respectful to their traditional sport by making full use of their acquired game because being wasteful is bad character and sportsmanship. The sport of hunting has been around since Adam was kicked out of the garden. It is especially a North American tradition. Our fore-fathers and the Indians both hunted game to provide meat for their families. Their source of survival has turned into our past-time.
In 1985, the cost of shootings was an estimated $14 billion nationwide for medical care, long-term disability, and premature death. In robberies and assaults, victims are far more likely to die when the perpetrator is armed with a gun than when he or she has another weapon or is unarmed. I believe that there are a few solutions that can be used to solve this problem at both a community and national level. The first course of action is to establish a national system for registering guns and ammunition. Anyone can obtain a gun by going to a state with less restrictive laws or by getting a friend who lives in the state to buy the guns for them.
Guns are Never the Culprit The Newton Elementary School massacre was the second deadliest shooting in U.S. history and one of the deadliest around the world. Adam Lanza, armed with a power rifle, killed a total of 27 people including himself; seven adults, one being his own mother, and 20 children in an act that is still not explained to this day (Press, 2012). There have been many attempts to try and explain the actions of this disturbed individual and what would drive someone to commit such a hideous act; the main reason people are citing that this happened is lack of gun control. Other murder or suicides that have taken place over the years involving guns have struck up debate over whether or not citizens should be able to own guns;
Feburary 26th Gun Control in the United States Throughout our nations history, we have been battling the idea of whether us citizens should or shouldn't have the right to buy and own a gun. According to the Coalition for Gun Control, about 291 people were killed last year by handguns in Australia, Japan, Great Britain, Sweden, and Switzerland. In the United States, try 24,000 people. What is the big difference between the U.S. and those other countries? In those countries it is nearly impossible for you to buy any kind of gun.
Edward Valiente English 120 Professor Taylor 11/20/11 Gun Control The United States is the leader among nations in deaths caused by firearms. According to the Legal Community Against Violence (LCAV), the “gun epidemic” kills more than 30,000 and causes almost 70,000 injuries each year (para 7). Eventually, this leads to an uprising of gun control advocates, who seek to reduce crime and death rates by setting a variety of gun control legislation among the state and federal levels. Although, anti-gun control advocates believe that heavy restrictions on the access of firearms is unfair to American citizens, and a violation of the 2nd amendment in the U.S. constitution. However, evidence shows that a lower restriction on gun control ensures