I am writing to you in protest of your attempts toward gun control in this country. In my opinion, and this has been proven, what stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. According to research by the University of Chicago, 32 percent of Americans either own a gun or live with somebody that does. In my view, that’s about 68 percent too little. Your anti-gun lobby efforts have discouraged those remaining homeowners from properly arming themselves. Yet, it is our inalienable right as Americans to own guns, symbolic pieces of freedom and justice.
There should be no gun control laws or, in fact, any firearm restrictions; every law-abiding American should be allowed to carry a gun. What some might not understand is that a gun ensures
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Teens need to learn under adult supervision how to use a gun for protection. We should start at an early age teaching the benefits of weaponry. Why not have Elmo introduce guns to kids on Sesame Street? “But guns are expensive” you might add. That is exactly why we need to make guns available through a leading library. Crime will significantly drop after integrating guns into the daily lives of all Americans because criminals will have to think twice about taking advantage of what they might view as an easy target. Grandma needs to be armed. Yet what you might not realize is that no gun ever hurt anyone and that guns aren’t the problem. I cannot stress enough the statement GUNS DON’T KILL PEOPLE, PEOPLE KILL PEOPLE! We’ll all be safe when everyone has a …show more content…
As soon as you start taking away the most basic of rights and freedoms of Americans, you slowly descend to a tyrannical control devoid of a moral compass and respect for other people’s opinions. This is exactly what our fore fathers sought out to abolish when they revolted from the nefarious British control. By limiting these freedoms you will find yourselves on the brink of another revolution and on the wrong side of history. I hope you take these reasonable considerations and suggestions in account next time you represent the 32 percent of us real
Gun violence in America is something that has always been a reoccurring issue, but recently has become the topic of every discussion when America is involved. The passing of gun laws has always been a rough process, because there are so many people and/or things to think about. Many laws and rules and restrictions trying to control the usage of guns, often get changed within 5 years of being a thing. People then began to find loopholes and started making bans, or state laws to specifically have
Guns in America sounds like the normal way to live. We have protests everyday because the American people feel threatened and wants their guns. A lot of the protestors say if all the pioneers of America can own a gun so should they. Many pioneers of America didn't own a gun according to many historians that probed the history of guns in America. When it comes to guns, specifically handguns, early Americans had little to no interest in buying or having a gun in their home. This is a major set back
her society by describing how the protagonist, Hedda Gabler, attempts to manipulate the men in her life, through false love and alcohol, in order to maintain control in a society favorable to men. Hedda Gabler takes place in Oslo, Norway during the 1890s. The setting is integrated in the Victorian society, a type of society that had a strict code of morals and ethics that focused mainly on gender roles and how people should act toward their families. Ibsen wrote
British Imperialism in India "All the leadership had spent their early years in England. They were influenced by British thought, British ideas, that is why our leaders were always telling the British "How can you do these things? They're against your own basic values.". We had no hatred, in fact it was the other way round - it was their values that made us revolt." -Aruna Asaf Ali, a leader of the Indian National Congress. (Masani, quoted in Wood, 32, 1989) There is no doubt that British imperialism
“When someone burns the flag in protest they are exercising their right to free speech, and that is a freedom that should never be tarnished by the government”, says an anonymous writer. Criticism of the law has been a common theme throughout history. It is designed to inspire the audience to modify and benefit their society. In Antigone, by Sophocles, a woman challenges King Creon’s prohibition towards burying Polyneices and defies the standards of being a female. The poem, the “Ballad of Birmingham”
untrue, as a recent report from Young Invincibles, an advocacy group geared towards young adults, found it was easier for white college graduates to receive jobs when compared with colored college graduates.
becomes clearer. I believe that one of the major reasons freedom is so desirable is because many the limitations on freedom are disallowing us the right to have control over our own bodies. Controlling our bodies is the only thing that we actually have power over. A large number of the prohibited freedoms are crimes were you make your self the victim. Such as using drugs, prostitution, suicide, vagrancy, minor in possession, dodging the draft, entering the country illegally, and age limits on the
to attempts at removing the divide that has historically barred people of color, radical academics and people of differences from doing what most have come to call cultural work. These slash obstruct, separate, divide, subjugate and question the authenticity of nonacademic work and operate as a knowledge-power machinery to maintain the status quo. The existing discourse about language, writing, power structures, history and representation intensified within the postmodern era, while attempts were
only does it operate in a nondiscursive way, by affecting the physiological mode of the body, causing one to move and dance, but it also encourages one to think. This paper will explore music as a form of protest; showing how a political message, in general form, is presented through music. Protest music addresses the social, political, and economic conditions of the times and often speaks directly to the listener's experience (King 20). In the following pages, a general comparison will be made between
Neo-Nazis, and members of the Aryan Nations. He grew up living in the fantasy of comics and fictional literary works. He was enthralled with guns from a very young age, that carried over into adulthood. He flew through the ranks in the army but was rejected by the rangers. After he was rejected he came back and did not fit into society. McVeigh began going to gun shows; at these events he began to talk to these radicals of all kinds, he
The Causes and the Protest of 1968 In the 1960s, the great decade of social change, the civil rights movement alongside student movements worked together to bring about a momentous change in society. In 1968, the New Left continued to take on thousands of members as it developed a more radical approach in its opposition to racism and the Vietnam War. Practically synonymous with the New Left, Student’s for a Democratic Society (SDS) argued that militant tactics showed young people that actions
in February of 1895 with the motto, “Independencio o Muerte” (Independence or Death). Multiple minor battles between Cuba and Spain took place that year. (Library of Congress) In June of 1895, President Grover Cleveland took a stance of neutrality toward the Cuban conflict, though many American citizens grew concerned that the fight was too close to home. (Spanish-American) By December of the next year, Cleveland declared that the U.S. might be forced to take action if Spain was unable to solve the
the American people must be more reasonable about morals and stop worrying about our “First Amendment” rights. In 1978 a radio station owned by Pacifica Foundation Broadcasting out of New York City was doing a program on contemporary attitudes toward the use of language. This broadcast took place on a mid-afternoon weekday. Immediately before the broadcast the station announced a disclaimer telling listeners that the program would include "sensitive language which might be regarded as offensive
Edgar Edgar Edgar Dear reader, I have taken great risk on your account, in that if I do not turn up with some serious cash sometime soon, I am probably going to Hell. Edgar found his feet taking him, as they did every morning, on the short walk across a trampled road, which was most certainly composed of piss, shit, and dirt. He thanked the Lord that he was given enough money by Pope Innocentus XXX (God bless his Holy Rotundness), otherwise the walls of his cottage would have been composed of that
young after the Taliban had taken over Mingora, Pakistan. Malala’s hometown Swat Valley was once a popular tourist spot known for their summer festivals, that all changed however when the Taliban took control. Malala attended a school her father Ziauddin In 2009, the Pakistan army finally retook control of Swat from the Taliban and Malala began writing a blog for the BBC Urdu service using the name Gul Makai to protect her identity. The blog talked about what it was like to live under the Taliban’s