Boston Bombing

 As police searched for a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing, one Saudi man was heavily guarded at the hospital. Later, federal officials would search his home and interview his roommate. Finally, a day later, officials announced that he was not a suspect, but a witness. “What made them suspect him?” “Was it just the way he looked, or did he, in the chaos maybe call for God with a name that someone found strange?” We get so close to being selfless, compassionate and unafraid in times of tragedy, but then we profile people without caution. “What’s missing?” “Is it humility?”

Gun Laws research paper

Antonio D. Guinn Jr

March 25, 2013

Research Introduction

Professor Ercilla Dometz.

Political Science Research paper

Gun Control Laws

            Who are the real killers the gun or us? The gun laws today are getting looser and looser when it comes to who can buy them and operate them with or without a license. Now a days many people buy their guns for auctions or on the black market for little to nothing and they don’t even have to own a gun permeate or a gun license most situation. In Memphis TN we have the most nonchalant gun laws that you can find in the south, and the reason I say that is because you can be 16 years of age and own a hunters rifle with legal paper work or a license. Most of the people that I know that own guns back home don’t even have a gun license and they are not planning on owning one anytime soon.

            Gun laws in the are more the problem then guns laws in the north, because according to the Tennessee Department of health statistics states that The 2011 total death rate of 9.4 per 1,000 population increased 1.0 percent over the rates for 2007. The mortality rate for the white population increased 4.1 percent from 9.7 in 2007 to 10.1 in 2011. The rate for the black population decreased 7.3 percent from 8.2 per 1,000 populationto 7.6 during the 5-year period. Age-specific death rates for 2011 show the total rates for the age group 65-74 almost three times that of the agegroup 45-64. Rates by age group forthe black residents were higher than those for the white residents, except for the population group 85 years and older when the white rate was higher than both the total and black rate. The black infant death rate of 12.8 was 2.1 times higher than the white rate of 6.0 per 1,000 births.

            Although most gun owners don’t have the rights to carry their weapon by law, these are the ones who want stricter rules and regulation to the gun control laws, because they know how crazy people can get with guns and crimes in their neighborhoods so they just want to see it spread and escalate into a bigger epidemic like it already has in so many ways. The gun crime that we have is just to spiral out of control to the point of no return.

            The big issue with guns now a days isn’t the fact that they kill innocent people it’s the fact that people don’t know how to use them or when to. In these times of war and crime people use gun just to get what they want to just to cause harm to others for no good reason. So because of that in the 1920s in response, the National Rifle Association (NRA) began to get involved in politics and was able to defeat the handgun probation movement.

            Often, the battles were a clash of absolutes: one side contended that there was absolutely no right to arm, that defensive gun ownership must be prohibited, and that gun ownership for sporting purposes could be, at most, allowed as a very limited privilege.

 

 

 

 

 

Gun control is it good or bad? You decide. Now a days gun are easier to get then STDs and the reason for that is the poorly looked over gun system that we have here in the United States. The type of gun system that we have is so little that a 13 year old child can by a hunters rifle without a license but we have to have one to buy a pistol, that well never get used. The system that we have here in the U.S is not the dream system; ever day children are dying because more and more kids are getting their hands on guns that they are not even supposed to even be thinking about letting alone trying to buy.

Parents in the states are very upset with the laws that the congress is passing because the laws that they are passing aren’t really kid friendly. Majority of the laws that congress is passing are only good for the typical Caucasian male and not for the African American male and or the African American teen male that typically tends to end up in the worst case situation. The reason I say it is typically for the Caucasian male is because the laws that we have on guns are more along the lines for hunting like the NRA law that states that “as long as you are 13 with a hunters license you can buy and or sell a hunters rifle”. If you ask me the NRA doesn’t know how to control themselves let alone a gun. Many people think that since the NRA has been in business since the 1720s they know what they are talking but that’s not the case.

            A movement to ban handguns began in the 1920s in the Northeastern, led by the conservative business establishment. In the response, the NRA (National Rifle Association) began to get involved in politics and was able to defeat handgun prohibition. Gun control and gun rights battles were a clash of absolutes. By the time that Heller and McDonald came to the Supreme Court, the battles had mostly been resolved. They did not break new ground but yet reinforced the American consensus to keep and bear arms, especially for self-defense, that right, however, is not absolute.

            During the nineteenth century, gun control was almost exclusively a Southern phenomenon. It was concerned with keeping guns out of the hands of slaves or free blacks before the civil war, curbing dueling and suppressing the freedmen after the Civil War. The only favored gun control law was restricting concealed carrying of handguns. Concealed carry was only viewed as something that would be done only by a person who was up to no good. During the Twentieth century, communists and anarchist groups often attempted to provoke violence. The Bolsheviks overthrew the Russian government witch itself has overthrown the czar a half-year earlier.

            While gun control spread north, the NRA had nothing to say about the matter. Ever since 1871, the NRA had been political only in the narrow sense that it pressed for governmental support of rifle marksmanship training among the American public. NRA lobbying led to the establishment of a federal program, designated intermediary between the US military and the civilian population.

            The St. Valentine’s Day massacre in Chicago horrified the nation to nearly the same degree that the Columbine High School murders did in 1999. The general increase in crime resulting from Prohibition led to the first national calls for handgun prohibition. Pacifists who wanted to end war by getting rid of all weapons also handguns, how has played a part, but they were belittled compared to the power of the business elite, which was used to getting its way. The firearm prohibition movement, however, did not have a wide public following.

           

           

 

The NRA has been trying to come up with different ways to keep the uproar of banning firearms and other weapons that can be bought by the public. The NRA has been fighting this battle for over 30+ years and so far they have been winning the battle against the public. Often, the battles were a clash of absolutes; one side contended that there was absolutely no right to arms, that defensive gun ownership must be prohibited.

            By the time that Heller and McDonald came to the Supreme Court, the battles had mostly been resolved. The Supreme Court did not break new ground, but instead reinforced what had become the American consensus keep and bear arms, especially for self-defense, that right, however, is not absolute.

            In the early 1960s, the only significant gun control proposal in Congress was being pushed by Connecticut Senator Thomas Dodd, a protectionist measure to shield U.S. gun manufactures from foreign competition. Of particular concern was the surplus of WWII bolt-action rifles coming in from Western Europe, where armies were upgrading their rifles and selling old ones to eager American market.

Although the public has been trying to prohibit hand since the late 60s, they don’t understand that we need them to survive everyday life. Rather it’s to hunting or just to protect ourselves from the danger of the world. Most people just see guns as I weapon of mass destruction butt you have to look at it like it’s the only thing that can either saves your life in a time of need. I have learned from this paper that guns aren’t the killers we are so there is no reason to prohibit firearms but what we really need to do is just put a age limit on guns I mean we have a age limit on everything else so why not guns?

 

Work cited

By: Pollitt, Katha. New YorkTimes.“Gun Control Dream on” 8/27/2012, Vol. 295 Issue 9/10, p8-8. 1p.

            This article is basically about all the mass murders and the million mom march that was for the murders. The man who wrote this article was talking about how many people with mental illnesses are the ones who end up doing the mass murders like movie-theater massacre: twelve people murdered and fifty-eight wounded some very severely, by James Holmes, demented neuroscience graduate student. Then came the massacre at the Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin: six killed and three wounded by Wade Michael Page, 40-yearold white supremacist and leader of a racist hardcore band called End Apathy.