EVENT | ROUND | RESULT | Varsity Policy | Triples | C.K. McClatchy - Harris and Spurlock defeat New Trier - Watkins and Witaszek on a 3-0 decision. | Varsity Policy | Triples | Glenbrook North - Knez and Sawyer defeat Coppell high school - Ballard and Javeri on a 3-0 decision. | Varsity Policy | Triples | San Dieguito - Horen and Wimsatt defeat SF Austin - Estrada and Girling on a 3-0 decision. | Varsity Policy | Triples | St. Mark's School of Texas - Burdette and Marshall defeat Bellarmine - Mathur and Randhawa on a 3-0 decision.
They asked the court to declare Chicago law banning handguns unconstitutional. Chicago’s law does not expressly prohibit handgun ownership, but Justice Alito argued that it effectively does so. The law requires all owners of firearms to apply for a permit. Most handguns are excluded from the list of approvable firearms, therefore making it nearly impossible for any resident to own a handgun. Both the petitioners were ruled against by the United States District Court Judge and the United States Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
Although Jay-Z is a hip hop artist, he did not perform at the barbeque. The writer of the article also didn’t take into account that people of other races attended the event also. To come out and classify Obama’s cookout as a “Hip Hop BBQ” is straight out racist. These comments and others made by the people that work at Fox News should not be tolerated. Although the second amendment protects these people, it is wrong to use their freedom of speech to bash another race on the media.
Twenty-one states in this country have mandatory arrest laws (Barton & Diedrich, 2012), but there is no one to enforce them, and if laws are ignored, there are no penalties. In Wisconsin, every law enforcement agency is required to have a written policy that spells out how they respond to domestic violence calls, but local departments are not required to submit their policies to any state agency for review, and it is not known how many departments have actually written one (Barton & Diedrich, 2012). Mark Wynn, a retired Nashville Police Department lieutenant and a domestic violence expert, argues, “It may have a great policy, but somewhere along the chain it is not being followed. You may have two policies, a written and an unofficial policy of practice, and that is a problem. That is a failure of leadership.
Eliminating the second Amendment will make it harder for law-abiding citizens to protect themselves against psychos with guns. The first reason why citizens should be allowed to have guns for self defense on the street and in their homes is the fact that police are not required to protect every individual. The former Florida Attorney General Jim Smith told Florida legislators that police responded to only 28.57% of calls for help to Dade County authorities. He was asked why so many citizens in Dade County were buying guns and he responded, “they d*** well better, they’ve got to protect themselves.” The Department of Justice discovered that in 1989 there were 168,881 crimes of violence which were not responded to by police within one hour. On average it takes 15-30 minutes for police officers to get to a crime scene.
But it's nearly impossible to pinpoint the cause of suicide, and you can never predict how anyone will react to death. Dungy's situation -- as best we know -- is different from Andy Reid's situation. Reid's sons have drug problems, owned weapons, sold drugs and a judge called the Reid home a "drug emporium." I'm not suggesting that Dungy is a better father than Andy Reid. I have no clue.
Not only did this study state that the weapons banned were only used in a small percent of crimes even before the ban, but also "found no statistical evidence of post-ban decreases in either the number of victims per gun-homicide incident, the number of gunshot wounds per victim, or the proportion of gunshot victims with multiple wounds. "(Koper, Roth 67) So even if Congress bans these vaguely named assault weapons it will most likely be as ineffective as the last time they did so. Some take issue with the ban not because of its’ functionality problems, but because they feel it violates their rights as
RESIDENCE RESTRICTIONS Fourteen states (Alabama, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, and Tennessee) have enacted buffer zones which prohibit sex offenders from residing within close proximity to a school, park, day care center, or school bus stop. The least restrictive distance requirement is in Illinois (500 feet), but most common are 1,000 to 2,000 foot boundaries. There is no research to support the idea that residence restrictions prevent repeat sex crimes. In Colorado it was found that molesters who reoffended while on probation were randomly scattered throughout the geographical area, and did not seem to live closer than non-recidivists to schools or child care centers (Colorado Department of Public Safety, 2004). In Minnesota, sex offenders' proximity to schools or parks was not a factor in recidivism, nor did it impact community safety (Minnesota Department of Corrections, 2003).
This may be true, and if so it will show gun control does not help as much as someone would think or like. In an article published by USA Today, it is mentioned that our government has already tried limiting our rights during the Clinton administration. The government banned certain semiautomatic firearms, and the result indeed showed that there was absolutely no different in the crime rate, absolutely none. Which has brought me to my next point, the black market. The black market is home to many goods that many cannot easily attain, quite ironic.
Fear drives opposition to gun control By David Frum (CNN) -- There will be no new gun laws after the Aurora shooting for the basic reason that the American people do not want them. Over the past 20 years, support for gun control has collapsed in the United States. Three-quarters of Americans want to keep the right to own handguns, weapons whose only function is to kill human beings at close range. In 1959, 60% of Americans wanted handguns banned outright for all but police officers. Little to gain, lots to lose for Obama and Romney on guns Responding to public opinion, states have loosened gun laws to allow citizens to carry weapons with them almost anywhere they go.