Problems With Gun Control
.... gave the power to the people to
bear arms for protection. As Clede points out in his article, it was not the
intent or purpose of this Amendment to bestow unlimited rights upon the people.
The question to ask today is, are the people responsible enough to have the
unlimited rights that they seem to have under this Amendment. Clede states,
"that does not mean that the government can constitutionally prohibit all
weapons, but it probably means that the government can reasonably regulate and
limit .....
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Gun Control
.... vague religious tests or any other nebulous standard or artifice" (
Caplan p.39).
The first infringement on the Second Amendment came on November 30, 1993
when President Clinton signed Brady Bill I. The law required that there be a
five day waiting period on all hand gun purchases. The Brady Bill also banned
semi-automatic rifles and other military type weapons. ( Moore 1994 p.434) The
five day waiting period is suppose to stop felons from buying guns. But,
Waiting periods do not stop felons from .....
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Gun Control
.... be infringed.
Advocates of gun control say that even with 20,000 gun control laws
already in existence, the serious problems due to firearm misuse continue.
Obviously, the controls that have been designed have not been sufficiently
effective. Therefore the pro-gun controllers argue, we need more uniform
legislation, more extensive gun controls, and effective enforcement.
Various pro-gun control organizations disagree on methods of gun control
needed. For example, there are individuals who would ban al .....
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Gun Control: Is It A Problem?
.... gun control. People here in the U.S. have the "right
to bare arms," but with that right comes responsibility. As an American with
that right you're not free to shoot anyone or anything at will. Government
should create laws to protect the rights of others.
I believe stricter gun control laws and better education on the use of
guns is necessary. People of the U.S. aren't as rigidly regulated by gun laws
compared to our European neighbors. In the United States it takes anywhere from
a few days to a cou .....
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Firearms; Vital Tools For Self Defense Or Deadly Killers?
.... can help prevent crime. This is a view held by many opponents to
gun control. The criminals themselves agree. As part of a three - year study
by the U. S. Department of Justice, criminals in prisons across the nation were
interviewed. Sixty percent feared being shot by an armed citizen more than
being shot by the police. fifty - three percent did not commit a specific
crime because they were afraid the victim was armed. Fifty - seven percent of
them were scared off by an armed victim who ei .....
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Having A Gun
.... would protect the
innocent citizens. But it failed to even entertain the notion that the enactment
of this law would come to protect the right of those who violate the rights of
others. It has never occurred to authorities that vicious criminals, in spite of
this legislation, will still manage somehow to get the firearms.
Innocent people, however, will suffer, because they will be less likely
to obtain handguns in order to protect themselves and their families. Therefore,
it would not be hard to imagine t .....
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In Cold Blood: Death Penalty
.... should carry considerable
weight with rationalists. As Albert Camus pointed out, " Capital
punishment....has always been a religious punishment and is reconcilable with
humanism." In other words, society has long since left behind the archaic and
barbous" customs" from the cruel "eye for an eye" anti-human caves of religion-
another factor that should raise immediate misgivings for freethinkers.
State killings are morally bankrupt. Why do governments kill people to
show other people that killing .....
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Investigation Techniques Of A Homicide
.... the creditability of the police department.
CAUSE AND TIME OF DEATH
When the officers first arrived the scene, they saw two people lying in a
pool of blood. The officers did not know if they were dead and if they were, how
and when. After the medical examiner looked at the bodies and the wounds on the
victims, he concluded that they were stabbed to death. The time of death was a
bit harder to determine. Death caused some changes to the bodies. The
investigator looked at the changes and was able to .....
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The Unabomber: Is He Serious?
.... to paint a
picture of destruction and demise of the world in which we live. What could
cause such a catastrophe? According to the author, it would have to be industry
and technology of all things. He was convinced that due to the industrial-
technological system in which we live, ultimately humans are going to be
subjected to world wide suffering and inevitably a total shut down of humanity.
Now at this moment I felt a little disbelief. I had heard he was actually an
intelligent person, but I was .....
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Jury Nullification And Its Effects On Black America
.... American legal system. Controversy arises
when the issue of possible causes of, and also solutions to, these variations
are discussed.
Although numerous articles and books have been published devising means
by which to reduce variance within the system, the most recent, and probably
most contentious, is that of Paul Butler, Associate Professor of Law, George
Washington University Law School, and former Special Assistant United States
Attorney in the District of Columbia. Butler's thesis, published in .....
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Juvenile Crime
.... are more likely to be arrested, and 38% more likely to commit a violent
crime as an adult, then their counterparts who did not suffer such abuse. The
symptoms of child abuse are “high levels of aggression and antisocial behavior”
and these children are twice as likely to become juvenile offenders. Also
improper parental care has been linked to delinquency such as mothers who drink
alcohol or take drugs during pregnancy cause their babies to grow up with
learning disorders, a problem which lea .....
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Juvenile Justice
.... the American public want something
done, and they want it done now. Right now we are beginning to relize that if
the situation looks bleak now, it could deteriorate even more in the future.
The U.S. Census projects that the juvenile population, reported to be 27.1
million in 1994, will rise to 33.8 million by the year 2004 (67).
At the heart of this controversy: the juvenile justice system. For the
past several years the system has been under attack by every one from state
legislatures to parenteen gro .....
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Law And Morality
.... people to survive for the remaining fifteen days. Rationing
the food will not be of any use, because all will die with such a plan. The only
way for most of the survivors to live for the next fifteen days is for one to
die. Somehow they have contacted an outside source to advise them on the
questions of "Who shall die?", and "How should the decision of choosing the
person be carried out?" These are all very difficult questions to answer, but
something must be done. It is unlikely that someone will volu .....
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Law Of Nations: An Overview
.... describe this state of nature, in which man resides absently of law. His
use of the term represents the struggle morality wages against nature and
reason. He equates morality in any form, with "tyranny and unreason."
Nietzsche proposes that man's natural existence be, in essence, nihilistic.
Logically, the political entity known as the state, created by man will inherit
these traits. Thus, the conclusion is that the creation and institution of
international law are in direct violation to nature.
Howev .....
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Laws Of War
.... instigators, and accomplices participating in
the formulation or execution of a common plan or conspiracy to commit any of the
foregoing crimes are responsible for all acts performed by any persons in
execution of such plan.1
The above excerpt comes form the Charter of the Tribunal Article 6 section C,
which makes it quite clear that in general the "laws of war" are there to
protect innocent civilians before and during war.
It seems to be a fair idea to have such rules governing armed conflict in orde .....
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