Reflective letter:
What worked for me in this assignment was researching and learning more about gun control. what i found challenging was that i didn 't know which sources to use for a majority of my information i used so i decided to break it up as evenly as possible. I don 't know how well i did on this assignment i do know that when i think i did great i tend to do bad. I feel sure about summarizing and compelling, but i don 't know if my research methods and strategies are working or are where they need to be. As i out pieces together the questions i have are will this sound as good to my peers as it does to me? Did i fully meet the requirements of my professors points of emphasis? Things along the lines of that. I would like to know
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The 2012 U.S. population was nearly 314 million. That may lead you to the mistaken impression that everyone is packing heat. In truth, however, the majority of Americans are still unarmed. “In a January 2012 Gallup poll, forty-three percent of Americans said they had a gun in their homes” (Adams, 957). That says how many guns are in the country, and how some of the guns are actually being held by less than half of Americans legally. This shows how important guns are in the American society. Thus, Americans may ask themselves these certain questions when talking about the gun control controversies: Are stronger measures needed to protect society? Do gun bans violate Americans’ Second Amendment rights? If firearms should be more tightly regulated? If it should be legal to carry a firearm in public? How the White House is trying to reduce gun violence? These are some of the questions that are hot topics when talking about the matter of gun control.
The federal gun legislation timeline shows how the evolution of laws to control firearm uses. The significance of this sources is that it shows how the gun control laws have been changed and manipulated throughout time in the United States. It starts from the year of 1791 where the U.S. Constitution is ratified. This timeline ends to this year which is, in response to recent massacres, Obama introduces proposals to tighten gun control laws. “The last significant
A hot-button topic in the world of U.S. politics today is the controversy over whether or not new gun laws need to be instituted to keep Americans safe. We are a nation that believes in the Second Amendment, and one that sticks to traditional values. With this, comes a great deal of incongruity, which makes for a very sensitive debate on gun control. On one side of the spectrum, we have those who take a more liberal stance; while they do in fact support the second amendment, there is no doubt that the U.S. has evolved significantly since the Constitution was written, hence creating a need for strict gun laws. On the other side of the spectrum, conservatives argue that as soon as executive action inhibits the fundamental principles in which
“The right to bear arms”, an amendment so prioritized by our founding fathers that it earned the very second spot on the list of birth rights as Americans. However, with constant tragedies striking the United States, such as massacres in public high schools and universities, mall shootings, and attempted assassinations on state representatives, it’s no wonder law makers are constantly debating the topic of gun control.
Gun control is a controversial issue for a long time around the world, particularly in U.S. because of a lots of mass shooting in school and public places. The second Amendment of the U.S. constitution is one of the shortest in all of the bill of right, it was written by the time period of American’s birth and it is the spirit of self-defense that help the new citizens of U.S. win their own freedom from the British. But now as the gun shooting problem happening every day in America, this gun control problem has gradually become to a hot issue. Compare to other countries like Britain, Canada, Japan, China, the difference between U.S. and those countries is in these countries to get a firearm is a very difficult thing
Guns are one of the most controversial and debated-upon topics in America today. In the Constitution, Americans are given “the right to bear arms,” and many Americans are proud of and believe strongly in that right. Though, that right has been constantly misused. Homicides by gun are at a higher rate in the United States than any other country in the world, mass shootings are at an all time high (many of which have occurred in the past two years alone), and terrorism has been at an all-time high. So, naturally, it is a topic that needs to be discussed. In the articles Change Your Gun Laws, America (1), author Fareed Zakaria provides the readers with some harrowing statistics on guns and insight over how the U.S. laws on guns need to be managed.
The pro gun control debate is sided by the more liberal organizations. Whether they are conspicuously discernible organizations for gun control, or even just more liberal news sources, be sure you ken their political standing afore taking their data as whole truth. Even an organization such as NPR cannot be held as 100% reliable, because of their generally liberal agendas. The gun control debate facts for the anti control side are just as suspect. Again, the NRA and its constituents are perhaps the most vocal in this debate. But generally any Republican or right-wing organization is going to have some remotely investment in keeping gun control down. Any of their facts and information are going to be hyperbolized or skewed in order to make gun
Gun control is a law that controls how guns are sold and used, and who can own them. Allowing people to possess and use a gun with legal documents in the United States is legal. There have been arguments on whether or not is should be legal to own a gun as some people see it as beneficial and others do not. It is believed that guns are beneficial to have, and they are there because we need to be able to protect ourselves. We should not allow the government to have power over gun control for many reasons including the loss of tradition of hunting, not being able to protect ourselves, and simply because of the second amendment.
Imagine a small, happy family with a mom, a dad, and a little baby girl. Now imagine them hiding together in fear in the corner of their house as a man holds them at gunpoint, robbing them of everything they have. They can’t defend themselves because there has been a recent ban on all handguns in the United States. Scenarios like this will happen every day if we allow more gun control laws to be put into effect. Guns are used in defensive ways 250,000 to 350,000 times a year (Barrett). Can you imagine America losing that many more people every year, all because they enforced laws that wouldn’t allow everyone to have a gun? Gun laws in the United States are effective as they are and do not need to be added to or changed. In order to truly understand why, it is important to examine the causes of the problem, the effects of the problem, and what is being done or what can be done to help solve the problem.
Summary of Main Points: We now have a better idea of what gun control actually involves and when it all started. We have also been informed of some of the facts that based off the gun control debate. The demographic factors really help to show that there are two sides to this debate and how each side can be effected by those factors. III. Call to Action: So before “jumping the gun”, make sure you know your facts about what gun control is.
Imagine Black Friday shopping at the local mall knowing that people all around could be carrying loaded guns! Even though this may sound far fetched, under the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution, citizens have the right to possess and carry guns. Was this the intent of the Founding Fathers when they penned the Second Amendment? When written, the Second Amendment was about protecting the American government from both foreign and domestic threats (Truthout). Gun control is one of the hottest topics at water cooler discussions across America today. This topic is very polarizing. American citizens news feeds are flooded with stories about shootings on a daily basis, innocent victims being shot during a crime, senseless mass shoots, shots fired in self-defense, police shootings of criminals, and last but not least, the shooting that occurs in war. Americans are bombarded with reports and images of gun violence from television, the press, social media, and computer war games. Yet, how many people have actually held a gun? How many have
The term “gun control” deals with the regulation of the selling, purchasing, and using of firearms in America. The availability of firearms to the public has been causing serious debates around the country because of the diversity in the people’s cultures, judgment, and religions. Many people thought the provision set by the Second Amendment when it was ratified can perfectly be applied in the society today. However, the understanding of people about the Second Amendment and how they interpret it change over time. They cannot agree with each other about the meaning of the historical evidence (Karlan, 2013). Research and polls found that people in the rural areas tend to support the right of gun owners while those in urban areas encourage gun control. Due
In America guns have been a part of the country’s society since it’s birth. Throughout history the citizens of the US have used firearms to protect the nation, protect their families, hunt for food and engage in sporting activities. The issue of Guns and gun control is complex. Weighing the rights and liberties of the individual against the welfare and safety of the public has always been a precarious balancing act. In the United States, gun control is one of these tumultuous issues that has both sides firmly entrenched in their positions. Those parties in favor of gun ownership and the freedom to use and keep arms, rely on the fact that the provision for such rights is enshrined in their constitution. In this climate of
Over the last years gun control has become a very widely debated topic. The city, county and state lawmakers seem to be having different stands about the public having easy access to guns. Adam Small states, “After centuries of relative obscurity, the Second Amendment has become the center of an intense academic and legal battle during the last twenty years” (1213). The supporters of gun control and its opponents both claim to have the best interest of this country’s citizens .However, there are private citizens who believe that there should be laws to limit the number of people who own a gun. Even though the United States has enacted laws for regulating firearms, the recent shootings at Aurora movie theatre and Sandy
Gun control has a history dating back to 1791, when the Second Amendment of the Constitution was ratified. However, more recently, the debate over gun control has escalated into a much more public issue to which many citizens can relate. After all, stories about incidents involving guns appear frequently today in newspapers and on television or the radio. One could say that the debate started with the passage of the Gun Control Act of 1968, which banned ownership of guns by certain groups of people and regulated the sale of guns. Since then, two main groups have gradually appeared: people who oppose strict federal
The research essay is one of the hardest essays I have to write this semester, the difficult part is to generate ideas and factual information to support our ideas. Over the pass week we have been working on the review essay as a team together and I got to say the essay are much harder than I thought it would be. We able to pick our own subject and write about it. The main goal is to inform the reader to take a look further at the subject using non-bias, scholarly information and hopefully have your own stand and point of view toward your subject. I start to enjoy doing my research and review as the interesting subject lighting up ”Why not do a Jackie Chan research paper? ”; I picked this subject because the subject fitted my personality and I personally like to know how people think and feel about the subject. Also I wanted to do a research to know more about the subject that very minor almost unnoticeable and fairly new subject in scholarly world. I wanted to learn more and write more about less.
When I first read the assignment, I tried thinking of things that happened to me that affected me. I was drawing a lot of blanks because I try to block out the negative things in my life. My friend who was around me said “why don’t you write about your mom” and my first thought was that I wasn’t affected by that negatively but then I was like it had a positive effect on me. I spent the next few days thinking about what happened to start the whole and every event that happened since then. I couldn’t include everything that happened because some things were too private for me to share. What I learned from writing this was that when I’m telling my experience of something, it’s not that easy to explain because I have to shorten things and leave things out. It’s hard to tell a story about something that happened because people may judge you or what you’ve been through. I learned many things from my experience about my family and myself. I learned that you can’t always rely on your parents for everything. I learned about who my mom was as a person and who I am as a person. I saw different sides of my mom and dad from this situation, also from myself. The narration in my essay describes my view on things and my knowledge of it. I included things that happened to my parents as well. I didn’t try to take away from what the purpose of the essay was. My essay has meaning for others because there are kids who have went through the same things that I have. People can relate to my situation and understand what I felt and how their life got affected by their situation. What I did well in my essay is that I explained my situation and how I was affected or what some of my memories of it are. The things in my essay that are weak are my details or maybe my focus. I tend to jump around when writing down my thoughts so there might be things in this that aren’t understandable or clear to the reader.