If they would pass a law that would send violent offenders to prison for life without the possibility of them getting out before they die, and not at theses "country clubs" of some of these so called prisons, but a life of hard labor I would be willing to bet the violent crime rate would drop. Having to have a gun in every home and having everyone over the age of 18 knowing how to use it would also drop the crime rate.The ostensible reason for gun control laws is to reduce the rate of violent crimes involving firearms.
Okay, all well and good. The question that I have asked for decades--with never an answer--is for somebody to tell me of any specific law which contributes to a reduction in the rate.
Studies by "number crunchers" support my view that the various laws have no effect on the rate.
You do realize that we incarcerate an utterly absurd amount of citizens right?If they would pass a law that would send violent offenders to prison for life without the possibility of them getting out before they die, and not at theses "country clubs" of some of these so called prisons, but a life of hard labor I would be willing to bet the violent crime rate would drop.
Having to have a gun in every home and having everyone over the age of 18 knowing how to use it would also drop the crime rate.
The ostensible reason for gun control laws is to reduce the rate of violent crimes involving firearms.
The two main causative factors for violent crime are:
A. Poverty
B. Youth.
The two main causative factors for violent crime are:
A. Poverty
B. Youth.
Do you have a source for this?
2. We need to repeal the second Amendment; guns are the source of crime and getting rid of all the guns, and passing restrictive laws against guns will reduce gun crime.
15. Only, the police and military should have guns because people cannot be trusted with guns, which is why we need a gun ban.
19. An arsenal license implemented for owners of more than eight guns would make it harder for criminals. This arsenal license should require an "approved" safe for the firearms, another for ammunition, yearly registration requirements, requirements that all guns be locked in the safe at all times, and a provision for government inspection at any time under the threat of losing the license and firearms.
One argument you will hear is that the damage done by firearms outweighs their usefulness in our supposedly modern society. The anti-gun lobby says the price is too high in both monetary terms and in terms of lives lost or shattered by the use of firearms. They focus on the cost in medical care and lost wages that result when a firearm injures someone and the claim is that it runs into the billions of dollars when combined with medical and lost wages cost. This is a steep "cost" hurdle to overcome so the benefits must be high for us to keep guns around.
One argument you'll hear is the damage done by firearms outweighs their usefulness in our supposedly modern society. But is that really true? Let's take a look at this question.
The question itself begs for a cost-to-benefits analysis. A fancy way of saying "is something worth the price?". One the one hand, the anti-gun lobby says the price is too high in both monetary terms and in terms of lives lost or shattered by the use of firearms. They focus on the cost in medical care and lost wages that result when someone is injured by a firearm and the claim is that it runs into the billions of dollars (combined medical and lost wages). This is a steep "cost" hurdle to overcome so the benefits must be pretty high for us to keep them around, right?
I realize that plagiarism is a serious accusation and, of course, I am prepared to back it up.
Make it a nightmare, no Dental and Medical care.
No, I don't have a link.
In particular, it’s important because this is precisely the kind of problem that people are uncomfortable about believing. It’s hard for us to see the link between cause and effect when there’s a 20+ year gap between one and the other. Additionally, none of us like thinking that our autonomy as human beings can be destroyed by forces beyond our control that we can’t even see.
But such time lags between cause and effect do exist. Invisible molecules like tetraethyl lead can do us great harm. We need to understand this. It’s not enough to know this as an interesting fact. We have to know in our guts that these types of things are possible, because this is far from the only problem like it. And that kind of deep understanding that these problems are possible are what’s necessary to motivate us as people to do something about it.
It was sited and if you bothered to look where I posted it on my blog 4 years after it was updated you will see that when I copied and pasted it over I missed part of the post. You will also see it has not been updated since it was posted back in 2010. If you use your precious way back machine you will find out that all of the sites sources were still up and running in 2006 when the article was updated for the class. I did nothing against any of the college's rules because all the sources were sited. I might not be the best writer in any room but I am not a cheat. Also if you look at the link that was sited you we see that the stuff that was used from that site was used with permission by the author.I realize that plagiarism is a serious accusation and, of course, I am prepared to back it up.
The majority of the piece above seems to be copied from two pages on the site below with zero credit. Making small edits doesn’t change the fact this is plagiarism.
http://hematite.com/dragon/gcviewpoint.html
http://hematite.com/dragon/gcmythexplode.html
"Your" paragraph:
Paragraph from that site, emphasis mine:
There are plenty of other examples:
You: The people who advocate gun control also advocate intrusive laws, such as requiring child safety locks, storing guns in safes or strongboxes and some have even advocated the idea of periodic "surprise" searches of gun owner's homes to ensure guns are not available to children.
That site: The people who advocate gun control also advocate intrusive laws, such as requiring child safety locks, storing guns in safes or strong-boxes and some have even advocated the idea of periodic "surprise" searches of gun owner's homes -- in direct violation of the 4th amendment -- to ensure guns are not available to children.
You: In contrast, most gun owners support not only the second amendment, but they support the fourth amendment's restriction on searches along with all the other guarantees in the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights. An individual gun owner may not agree with your "free speech" advocating more gun control, but will defend your right to say it.
That site: In contrast, most gun owners support not only the 2nd amendment, but they support the 4th amendment's restriction on searches along with all the other guarantees in the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights. An individual gun owner may not agree with your "free speech" advocating more gun control, but will defend your right to say it.
Your list of viewpoints is more or less verbatim from that site, with several of his examples being rolled into one numbered item on yours.
Those pages was published between 2000 and 2001. This explains all the references HCI, a group that was renamed to the Brady Campaign 5 years before you supposedly penned this piece.
While there are references at the bottom of the piece, none of them contain the clearly copied work nor do they reference the site where the list of viewpoints is published.
The Internet Archive Wayback Machine lists multiple revisions of these pages, going back to 2000:
http://web.archive.org/web/20130109220556/http://hematite.com/dragon/gcviewpoint.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20001017122029/http://hematite.com/dragon/gcmythexplode.html
Unless Kuyong_Chuin is claiming to be the author of that site the submission in college, his blog and this post are plagiarized as the majority of his paper was written 6 years before he claims it was. One can not simply alter a bit of text here and there and present it without attribution.
I will correct the copy error.Attention students: Look for items marked with the check-mark for
reference materials for school essays, papers and debates.
It was sited and if you bothered to look where I posted it on my blog 4 years after it was updated you will see that when I copied and pasted it over I missed part of the post. You will also see it has not been updated since it was posted back in 2010.
Having to have a gun in every home and having everyone over the age of 18 knowing how to use it would also drop the crime rate.