Essays Tagged: "Gun violence"
Gun Control legislation
One of the most controversial issues in our society is gun control legislation. Violence associated with guns is increasing every year and something must b ... tion. Violence associated with guns is increasing every year and something must be done to stop it. Gun legislation varies in every state. In some states gun policy is stricter than in other states. G ... un policy is stricter than in other states. Gun legislation should be abolished in favor of federal gun legislation.To analyze the problem with gun violence today you must understand the gun laws that ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Gun and Weapon Control
Gun Control (an issue that effects us all)
The issue of gun control has been debated for a long time, probably ever since theywere invented. The gun is a sm ... ll, rather easy to obtain, weapon that is lethal if used in theright (or wrong) way. This makes the gun an extremely dangerous factor in our lives. Ifused improperly, a gun could be lethal to not only ... improperly, a gun could be lethal to not only the target, but the user as well. Theavailability of guns has sky rocketed in the past decade or so, and the immense populationof guns in our society mak ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law
The Brady bill and its passage
ng in Congress about three years ago, I was still back in my country,Japan, where the possession of guns is strictly restricted by laws. While watching televisionnews reports on the Brady debate, I wo ... watching televisionnews reports on the Brady debate, I wondered what was making it so hard for this gun controlbill to pass in this gun violence ridden country. In this paper, I will trace the bill's ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Cases
Graphic design response to Bowling for Columbine
with that event itself. Instead it was Michael Moore's quest to find an answer to the high rate of gun violence in the United States.What is it that is different about the US that makes it as a Natio ... eing around them.There are so many other things in our world that are at least just as dangerous as guns, take poison for example. Just about everyone in the country has some type of poison in his or ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
"Education is better than legislation in the battle to save children from guns"
EDUCATION IS BETTER THAN LEGISLATION IN THE BATTLE TO SAVE CHILDREN FROM GUNSChildren in America are exposed to gun violence every day, whether it is on TV, computer games, ... ssing a murder while walking through the inner city streets on their way to school. Like it or not, guns are a part of life, and not just here in America. You can find some kind of gun in every countr ... es and each other? I propose that education, not legislation, is the best way to save children from guns.Dr. Michael J. Harkness, a children's doctor from Pennsylvania, says, "Learning about gun safet ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays
Gun control.
Gun Control"38,000 people died from gunshot wounds in 1991 in the United States" (Huelsman 99). "The ... the rate in Great Britain, and seven times higher than Japan's" (Huelsman 99). When people mention gun control, many things come to mind which include the second amendment rights, school shootings, t ... things come to mind which include the second amendment rights, school shootings, the Brady law, and gun violence. All of these issues have prompted a controversy over guns and whether or not they are ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues
Gun Control.
This is a grade 10 level essay on Gun control. It takes the argumentative form.Gun Control versus Easy Access Of FirearmsIntroduction( ... ntrol versus Easy Access Of FirearmsIntroduction(Issue/Topic of the essay ) Individual ownership of guns (your position on this issue) should be strictly supervised via gun control as this may reduce ... n a moment of great anger. Young children have been known to have accidentally found their parents' gun with fatal consequences. Criminals will not be discouraged from using guns without stricter regu ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Military & International Conflicts & Security
Are Guns Really Necessary?
John MendezMrs. RagleAP English28 May 2003Are Guns Really Necessary?Guns are one of the main causes of violence in the United States today. Guns a ... tates today. Guns are too easy to get hold of for any reason, by any person, and there are signs of gun violence in the streets, schools, and in workplaces. Guns are too easy to get hold of because in ... because in almost half the states, anyone who is 18 or older can fill out a form, and leave with a gun. 18 is the age where, in the United States, one is legally an adult. Should there be an age limi ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Military & International Conflicts & Security
A Modest Proposal for Gun Control today.
Gun ControlA wave of high-profile school shootings has placed gun control at the top of the public a ... public agenda for the past couple of years. Politicians are engaged in frantic attempts to prevent gun violence or at least give the appearance of doing so. Celebrities have lately added to this caus ... f circulation. Crime rates have fallen dramatically in these areas. Now apply the same reasoning to gun violence. Only a very small percentage of guns are used to commit crimes. Law-abiding citizens d ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Military & International Conflicts & Security
The necessity of gun control.
Gun Control versus Easy Access Of FirearmsIntroductionIndividual ownership of guns should be ... ccess Of FirearmsIntroductionIndividual ownership of guns should be strictly supervised via gun control as this may reduce gun violence.Adults can kill each other in a moment of great anger ... n a moment of great anger. Young children have been known to have accidentally found their parents' gun with fatal consequences. Criminals will not be discouraged from using guns without stricter regu ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues
An esssay on gun violence in america.
e brought up greatly effects some personal decisions made by some people. A third aspect of why our gun rate is so high is the lack of education children have on guns and the harmful effects of them. ... ful effects of them. These three things are prime examples of why the United States has the highest gun fatality rate in the entire world.The influence the media has over gun violence is sadly astound ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Gun and Weapon Control
Talks about the gun activity in America (past and present).
Guns provide many uses and are used for many activities in America. Depending on the owner, the acti ... ivities to children playing with their parent's artillery that was improperly stored. People attain guns for protection, safety, and sports.Many people use guns to protect themselves. The problem is t ... and sports.Many people use guns to protect themselves. The problem is that criminals have access to guns just as easy as the police officers do. Many criminals purchase guns through the black market m ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues
Why should gun control laws be stricter?
f prison time. The families of those who died and were wounded never had an answer why it happened. Gun violence like this, claims the lives of an estimated 34,000 Americans each year.More people own ... the ownership of U.S. residents, and factories were providing four to five million more each year. Guns are present in approximately 4 out of 10 households in the U.S.Not only does America contain th ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law
Juvenile Crime
concern. Juvenile crime is increasingly more sophisticated and it's participants becoming younger. Gun violence has spread from urban centers into Suburbia. Drug and alcohol use among adolescents has ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays
Mass Communication and Social Agenda-Setting
How can social scientists and policymakers help bring about such a transformation for the issue of gun violence?These questions were the focus of the conference "Mass Communication and Social Agenda- ... ith the designated driver concept.The conference then sought to apply these lessons to the issue of gun violence. Mark L. Rosenberg, of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, outlined a publi ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies
A persuasive letter to the Guardian Newspaper regarding Gun Crime on TV. Suitable for GCSE writing to argue and persuade
ished in your paper on the 15th of September 2003 on the subject of too much violence, particularly gun violence, on our television screens. I do not agree with you on this subject and I will inform y ... hooter who was influenced by the violent films was mad before hand, just because he will go out and gun down people after seeing a movie doesn't mean that we all will, after all anyone sane who watche ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Persuasive Writing
English Essay, intertextuality
y about the issues presented. Lance Morrow did not "bias" or "influence" my position on violence or guns, and hence didn't influence what I read in Manson's article.The article "Columbine: Whose fault ... dn't influence what I read in Manson's article.The article "Columbine: Whose fault is it" describes gun violence in today's society. Whilst Manson probably wrote it to stop people from blaming teenage ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
Gun Control
The idea of the right to gun ownership is one that originated from our fear of oppression, back when we had just freed oursel ... m to firearms became one of the leading causes of death. This gave birth to the question of whether gun ownership should really be allowed and whether it is still an important part of freedom.The issu ... should really be allowed and whether it is still an important part of freedom.The issue of whether gun control is a right thing to do has been debated over since the end of the 19th century. Some bel ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Gun and Weapon Control
Bowling for Columbine - michael moore
owling for Columbine, directed by Michael Moore, is a documentary that explores the growing rate of gun violence that has been infecting the United States and the American people for quite some time. ... ncing argument to answer the question surrounding the film: "what makes United States have the most gun related deaths than the rest of the world?" By exploring this question, Moore and his viewers ar ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology
"Bowling for Columbine" - Film Review.
America traumatized by terrorism, teenage killers and economic inequality and focuses on America's gun culture, an exploration provoked by the Columbine High School massacre in Littleton, Colorado, o ... He presents startling facts in every topic he goes into. For example 11,000 Americans are killed by guns each year, and this digit is higher than Germany, Japan, and especially Canada combined. Mr. Mo ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis