...with them throughout the campus, these weapons can be used in self defense against anyone from bullies to school shooters. In fact, this method does not go far enough - all restrictions on guns should be revoked, and the second amendment should be taken at face value with no constraints. If more...
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...Gun Control GM 520 – Legal, Political and Ethical Dimensions Prof. David S. Carter By: Mustufa Husain Table of Contents Introduction 3 Gun Laws Internationally 4 Gun Control and the Second Amendment 7 Conclusion 12 Introduction I often wonder, should any citizen around the world be able to carry firearms? Can a person really feel safe from crime no matter where they may go? According to the bill of rights, the second amendment to the constitution of the United States reads “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed”. So how do I go about interpreting this? Some believe that it only means that the people of the military should be allowed to carry firearms, where some believe it means every citizen has the right to bear arms. Right at this moment someone around the world is being part of a violent crime whether it is the aggressor or the victim. How do we as citizens protect ourselves? Should we all be allowed to carry guns for self-defense or have guns around in our household? Even though many countries have implemented strict gun control laws, none have proven to be as effective as law makers thought they would be in reducing the number of crimes happening around. I shall present an argumentive paper on why I do not feel there should be stronger gun control laws. Guns do not kill…people kill. How many people do you know who have been...
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...might have when discussing the presence of 3D printed guns. 3D printing is a fairly new technology that is developing a new generation of both creativity and unease for many in North America and around the world. The printing technique allows users to create anything that comes to imagination and bring it into the three-dimensional world. The uses of 3D printers have been tested by both the professionals and the public due to its user-friendliness and accessibility. Both guns and gun parts have been one of the successful test subjects in the 3D printing market. Consequently, the new gun production method can lead to threats towards multiple groups of people, including the police,...
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...lives of 26 students and teachers. Cases like these have prompted the Obama Administration as well as the entire nation to reconsider what laws and restrictions need to be placed with regard to gun access and control without interfering with the constitutional rights of citizens. It is a known fact that America was produced into a nation based on the ideologies of freedom and democracy; with the constitution as the heart of its central government. The basic rights of citizens stated in the amendments are not only unambiguous but also eminently conserved by the Judicial System and Supreme Courts, which makes it a crucial challenge to modify, despite having national catastrophes that leave the government questioning their responsibilities with regard to public safety. Guns are a huge presence on the American landscape, no doubt. With an estimated 300 million firearms privately owned in the U.S., we practically have a weapon for every citizen. In 1994, President Clinton signed a ten year assault weapons ban into law but industries continued to manufacture civilian versions of military rifles. According to author Paul Berrett, “The prohibition actually helped transform what had been a marginal product for most manufacturers into a gun-rights poster child, celebrated by the National Rifle Association and sought after by a much bigger share of the gun-buying public.” Since the ban’s expiration in 2004,...
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...It is alarming that it is so effortlessly to acquire accreditation to claim a firearm, and in numerous states it is simpler to get a permit to convey a concealed weapon once a weapon permit has been given to you. In Georgia, as indicated by a site called georgiapacking.com, a national does not need to acquire a grant to convey a weapon the length of they are not restricted from owning a gun. In any case, they should have a Georgia Weapons Carry License, that is issued under the code 16-11-129 to convey a disguised weapon. Many legislators would want to consider whether to require public colleges and universities to grant guns on campuses. According to David Skorton and Glenn Altschuler, there are five states that have laws allow public colleges and universities to carry concealed weapons. In Colorado, Mississippi, Oregon, Utah, and Wisconsin. In Wisconsin administrators can ban weapons from campus facilities, if they post no-weapons signs in each building. Mississippi allows concealed carry on campus for those who complete firearm safety courses. The only state that specifically forbids public colleges and universities from prohibiting the carrying of concealed weapons is Utah. There are numerous more...
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...the number of guns a person can buy, and stopping the sales of semi-automatic weapons. He is also trying to enact laws limiting the amount of ammunition any one person is allowed to have, and has also supported the all-out ban of handguns, which is a clear violation of the right to bear arms as protected by the 2nd Amendment. The president and other politicians are trying to limit everyone’s access to guns in an effort to control us even more. The bottom line is we have a constitutionally given right to bear arms. There is no reason that it should be completely revoked from law abiding citizens who are not the ones performing the gun crimes that most anti-gun organization are angry about. Limiting the access of weapons to people who are at a high risk of using a gun to commit a crime is obviously a good idea, but the problem with these laws are that anyone willing to perform a gun crime is obviously willing to break the laws to obtain these guns. The use of a gun is probably the most effective and universal way you can possibly defend yourself from literally any attack, robbery, or intrusion. If every woman that has ever been raped or mugged carried a firearm, there wouldn’t even be rapists; or if every convenience store worker or bank teller had one, there would be no more robberies. Each year there are approximately 2.2 to 2.5 million defensive uses of guns of all different types by civilians against other people (Gertz, 1995). This statistic alone should really be enough...
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...Photo attested To THE FINANCIAL COMMISSIONER J&K GOVERNMENT, HOME DEPARTMENT JAMMU/ KASHMIR Thorugh : The District Megistrate, __________________ Sub: Issue of 12 Bore/ Gun License /315 Bore Rifle License/NP Bore Revolver/ Pistol License Sir, It is certified that No. __________________ ________Rank___ _________________________ Name ______________________________________ S/o ____________________________________ Unit ______________________________ date of birth ______________________________________ Of this unit is serving under my command within the jurisdiction of ____________________________ He is not involved in any disciplinary criminal/ vigilance and political activities. 1. He bears good moral character. 2. Issue of Gun/ Rifle/Pistol/ Revolver License is strongly recommended for his Self Protection/ Readjustment after retirement from the Armed Forces. 3. The Applicant is resident of __________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ Post Office ______________________ Police Station ______________________________ Tehsil __________________________ District ____________________________________ State __________________________ PIN _________________ 4. Recommended the Name Smt. ________________________________________________ W/o Shri __________________________________________________________________ As retainer in col. No. 6 of Arms Possession License...
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...Are Drunk Driving Laws too Lenient? Roberta Williams BCOM/275 July 22, 2014 Facilitator: Terrice Watson 3 family members, 1 other man killed in high-speed, head-on car crash on Southwest Side Chicago police investigating whether alcohol was involved Three of the men killed were family, lived together and, for the last 11 years, worked together at McCormick Place. Otis Thomas labored at the convention center for 25 years, and he helped get jobs there for his son Otis Jolliff and the younger man's cousin Theodore Jolliff, both 28. (Mitchum, R and Kridel K, 2008) I see the image every day of my life; the three caskets lined up head to foot. My brother lay lifeless between his son and his nephew; the son of his identical twin brother. Lives so entwined because identical twin brothers had one son each by two sisters, so here lies husband, fathers, sons, brother, grandfather, uncles, nephews, first cousins and an unimaginable pain of a family so rooted in love and relationships that was torn asunder by a drunk driver. Fathers and sons so close, they even worked together. One twin decided he would get someone else going his way to drop him off. That decision saved his life. The other three headed the same way and a drunk driver barely under the legal age for alcohol killed all three of these beloved men and died himself that fateful night. Do I feel that drunk driving laws are too lenient? Hell yes!!! I do, but statistics of nationwide fatalities and accidents and...
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...Is Requiring Ignition Interlock Licenses to indicate that the Purchase of Alcoholic Beverages is Prohibited Effective? April 20, 2013 Abstract In many states of the United States of America, selling alcohol has a number of state legislature-enacted restrictions. One such restriction is the sale of alcohol to certain persons who are found guilty of having committed third class felonies that are related to breach of a court order that is against driving under the influence alcohol that is intoxicated above certain limits. The circumstance leading to prohibition of driving automobiles without an ignition interlock devices arises from the first conviction of causing accidents that result in personal injuries for reasons accruing from alcohol intoxication. The penalties for causing accidents due to influence of over consumption of alcohol are valid from state to state. For instance, in the Tucson area, once convicted and found guilty for driving while under the influence (DUI) and/or while intoxicated (DWI), people find themselves susceptible to incredibly serious penalties. Such penalties range from a mandatory jail term, suspension of one’s driving license, and a force under court order to install an ignition interlock device in all cars driven by the convict among other penalties (Ministry of Transportation, 2013). Upon subsequent offenses, in many states, the felony offender is limited from accessing alcohol products from retailers or the retailers’ employees under the...
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...February 2015 New York State Bar Examination Essay Questions © 2015 New York State Board of Law Examiners QUESTION 1 In 1995, Walt, a widower, executed a will prepared by his lawyer, Len, which contained the following dispositive provisions: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. I give and devise my residence to my daughter, Amy. I give and bequeath my 100 shares of C Corp. to my son, Ben. I give and bequeath $100,000 to my son, Cal. I give and bequeath $100,000 to the American Red Cross. I give, devise and bequeath all of the rest, residue and remainder of my estate to my grandson, Dave. Walt signed the will at Len’s office, and at Walt’s request, Len and Walt’s son, Ben, signed as witnesses in the presence of Walt and each other after Walt acknowledged that the document was his will. In 2000, Walt duly executed a new will which expressly revoked any and all wills previously made by him. In 2001, Walt decided that he did not like the terms of the 2000 will and physically destroyed it by his own hand. Walt died last year, survived by Amy, Ben, Cal, and Dave. Dave is Walt’s only grandson and is the son of Walt’s deceased son, Ed. The 1995 will has been admitted to probate over the objections of Cal that the 1995 will had not been properly executed and that, in any event, it had been revoked. Walt’s residence has been valued at $300,000, and his 100 shares of C Corp. have been valued at $200,000. After payment of all debts, expenses and taxes, the net estate...
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...Unit 1 Week 1: An antitrust law that was the first United States Federal statute to limit cartels and monopolies that was signed July 2, 1980 is called Sherman Antitrust Act. This act allows the US federal government to take the legal action against firms in the formation of trusts as a means of dissolution (Sherman, 2013). Therefore, Goliath and Junior are not correct. The relationships that exists which restrain trade and commerce are strictly forbidden and deemed illegal (Sherman, 2013). Since Goliath is the owner, he is liable for Juniors’ infractions. Junior, Ltd is a business under Goliath which is an American founded company that company is subject to the law. They have many other options they can pursue. They could attempt to prove that the trade restraint has only positive outcomes or use the immunity clause that proves that they did not harm the exporting activities of other export competitors within the nation called the “exporting association” (Antitrust: An Overview, 2013). Goliath opened Junior to gain more control over certain aspects of the company and therefore make more profit for the company. The economy of the foreign country and US country could benefit from this type of business, however, the company stands the most to gain. The political views of the US are that the company is trying to make more money outside the US while the political views of the foreign country are pleased with the increase in their country. The actions of Junior will reflect on...
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...Christina Paskow Brook S. Edwards Writing II 10 November 2014 Leadership in Society Steven Johnson’s “The Myth of the Ant Queen” is broken down into 3 categories: the city of Manchester, emergence of the complexity theory, and as the title states, the myth of the ant queen. It opens with Deborah Gordon showing the author, Steven Johnson, the ant colonies and how they develop. Gordon’s work, “Focuses on the connections between the micro behavior of individual ants and the overall behavior of the colonies themselves, and part of that research involves tracking the life cycles of the individual colonies, following them year after year as they scour the desert floor for food, competing with other colonies for territory, and once a year they mate with them” (Johnson 193). She is a student, in other words of a particular kind of emergent, self-organizing system The queen of the ants is not as the name suggests, the queen of an ant colony has no political or authoritative significance in the colony. The queen of the ant colony lays eggs and is cared for by other ants, not the dictator of what the other ants do. What Gordon’s work suggests and then supports is that ants do not have a set authoritative figure, they are a self-organizing society. The ants have three main parts to their way of living: the midden which is the town dump, the cemetery, and the main colony. “Look at what actually happened here: they’ve built the cemetery at exactly the point that’s furthest away from...
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...NOTE: THE FOLLOWING CASE IS COPYRIGHTED AND MAY BE COPIED AND USED ONLY BY CURRENT USERS AND OWNERS OF THE TEXTBOOK, BUSINESS ETHICS: CONCEPTS AND CASES BY MANUEL VELASQUEZ. CASES FOR DISCUSSION H. B. Fuller and the Street Children of Central America The article was one of many published on street children in Latin American cities during the early 1990s. The issue on which it focused was one that children’s advocates had brought to the attention of H. B. Fuller Company repeatedly over many years. The article read: On a sidewalk in San Pedro Sula, Honduras ... a lanky, dark-haired boy [is] sitting w i t h arms curled around his folded legs, staring at the passing traffic. The boy, a nineteenyear-old named Marvin, has been sniffing glue for ten years. Once the leader of a gang of street kids, he now has slurred speech and vacant eyes. A year ago, Marvin began to lose feeling in his legs. Now he can no longer walk. He slides on his butt, spiderlike, through gutters, across streets, and along the sidewalks. Still loyal to their chief, the younger kids in his gang bring Marvin food, carry him to a news stand to spend the night, and make sure he has enough glue to stay high. ... Doctors offer no hope that Marvin will ever w a l k again. Toluene, the solvent in the glue he sniffs, is a neurotoxin known to cause irreparable nerve damage. ... In Honduras, the drug of choice for children is H. B. Fuller’s Resistol, a common shoe-glue made with toluene. Toluene creates...
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...Act, 1872, "A contract is an agreement enforceable by law”. A contract therefore, is an agreement the object of which is to create a legal obligation i.e., a duty enforceable by law. From the above definition, we find that a contract essentially consists of two elements: (1) An agreement and (2) Legal obligation i.e., a duty enforceable by law. As per section 2 (e) "Every promise and every set of promises, forming the consideration for each other, is an agreement." Thus it is clear from this definition that a 'promise' is an agreement. Section 2 (b) states that "When the person to whom the proposal is made signifies his assent thereto the proposal is said to be accepted. A proposal, when accepted, becomes a promise." An agreement, therefore, comes into existence only when one party makes a proposal or offers to the other party and that other party signifies his assent (i.e., gives his acceptance) thereto. In short, an agreement is the sum total of 'offer' and 'acceptance'. Example, A promises B to sell his horse for Rs. 10,000/-. The Law of Contract deals with such promises which create legal obligations. This excludes those promises made in common life which may be morally binding but creates no legal binding. Promises which do not give rise to legal obligations are not contracts. For example, if A promises B to attend the dinner and fails to attend then B cannot sue A for the price of non-consumed food. The Law of contract creates obligation between the parties to...
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...National National Herald case: HC terms Gandhis’ applications as ‘infructuous’ Updated: October 15, 2015 16:01 IST | PTI Congress president Sonia Gandhi and vice-president Rahul Gandhi during the during a rally at Ramlila Maidan in New Delhi. File photo The Congress leaders had alleged that a "different treatment" was meted out to a challenge filed by them in the case. The Delhi High Court on Thursday termed as “infructuous” the applications moved by Congress President Sonia Gandhi, her son Rahul and some other party leaders alleging a “different treatment” was meted out to a challenge filed by them in the National Herald case. The Congress leaders in their application had opposed the transfer of the case from the court of Justice Sunil Gaur who had part-heard the matter for eight months to another court of Justice P S Teji. Justice Gaur on Thursday termed their “applications” as infructuous as the matter has been listed before him by the high court registry. The judge also said that he had not recused from the matter and added that the petitions came back to him as it was part-heard by him. Even senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for Sonia Gandhi, agreed with the court that the applications had become infructuous and also added that they can be withdrawn. The court, thereafter, said it will hear arguments in the matter later in the afternoon. The Gandhis in their application had said their petition challenging a trial court order in the case was transferred in violation...
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