Gun Control for Concealed Weapons Abstract Gun violence is all over the world not just in the state of Illinois. The gun violence in Chicago has already passed last year’s total. Now that all fifty states have passed concealed weapons, citizens must go through background checks, so many hours of gun safety classes and also have to pay a hefty amount for the permit to carry. Allowing citizens to have concealed weapons can deter criminals from randomly selecting victims to commit crime on. Does allowing concealed weapons stop the violence?
Violent Adolescents Annette Fuentes writes an interesting article called Crackdown on Kids. Fuentes wrote this article for the June 15/22 issue of The Nation. This article is about how we have neglected to see the real problem at hand with juvenile delinquents and how quick we as a society are to just throw them in detention facilities rather than solve the problems in a more effective manner. Fuentes wrote this article in response to the shooting sprees at a school in Jonesboro, Arkansas. On March 24, 1998, three boys, ages 11, 13, and 15, unloaded a slew of mini arsenals and were responsible for the deaths of four students and a teacher.
5. What would you study in a black criminology? 6. What is the role of class in explaining black crime? 7.
Moore Money Michael Moore is a prominent filmmaker who mainly bases his work around documentaries. Moore’s most famous piece of work is his influential documentary “Bowling for Columbine” however it contains insidious manipulation and ruthless misdirection of the audience. By Rene Zacchini “Bowling for Columbine” is a documentary based in the exploration of gun violence in American society. Moore uses the 1999 Columbine High School massacre as his hook to draw the viewers in by highlighting the death of young students by guns. However many viewers do not realise that documentaries are only a version of reality.
1 GUN CONTROL IN AMERICA Comm-215 06/13/14 Instructor: John Cantlon 2 Are gun laws in the United States strict enough to keep our community and children safe? By now everyone is familiar with the recent school and university shootings all around our country and even around the world. These events have affected our community, schools and children dramatically in the past 15 years. Most school districts around the country have hired more Police Officers and have increased their security in order to fight this new trend of violence that seems to be getting more popular by people with mental illness or personal vengeance. One of the most remembered and tragic school shootings that started this tragic trend around the country was the “Columbine School shooting” on April 20, 1999 at Columbine High School in Columbine, located in Jefferson County in the State of Colorado.
Columbine Massacre Tuesday, April 20, 1999 at 11:19 AM, a witness heard Eric Harris yell, “Go! Go!” (Wikipedia). Two teenage student of Columbine high, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, arrived at school with an arsenal full of weapons ready to reap revenge on all those who had done them wrong. After the hour-long rampage and the chaos was over twelve students and a teacher were dead, twenty-four others were wounded and the two shooters had committed suicide. This massacre has provoked much debate into the issues of gun control and availability of firearms in the United States, as well as high school cliques, bullying and the role of violent movies and video games in American society.
Do minorities and whites engage in self segregation? I agree with Beverly D. Tatum from the book “Taking Sides”. I think we do self-segregate and that is because of the society we are brought up in. In today’s modern society African Americans do not sit in the back of the bus or go to separate schools however there is still segregation. I think it is because of two basic reasons; firstly, as Tatum points out, one can relate better with peers of their own race because they too understand the difficulties of being a minority.
Is it Drugs Not Guns that Cause Violence? The recent shooting in Newtown Connecticut brought a shocking surprise to the Nation a few months ago. Many young lives were taken and such a tragedy strongly impacted the people thought the United States. The big question was ‘why’. Why did this kid feel he needed to take the lives of innocent people?
Another subject he spoke about in the documentary was “Why does America have so many more gun murders than the rest of the world?” He spoke of many different possible reasons, but never really found the real reason. This kind of left me hanging. Some possible reasons were violent media, more guns, and availability of these guns. But all of them were disproved. I think the documentary would be better if he pinpointed a reason.
Robert Krastel Block: 1-1/A Police Brutality: Use of Force The police use of force influences the opinion of society on how young adults are treated and how different ethnic groups are treated in terms of punishment. It is controversial on how far a police officer can go in order to sustain peace and control. London, Ontario 2011. High-school students are claiming police brutality after a young man was shot by a taser as an officer attempted to break up a fight on Thursday. The incident, which was recorded on cellphone video and later posted to YouTube, shows two youths who appear to be teenagers throwing punches on the street as a crowd of youths gathers around.