Gun Control
.... has stayed the same."
C. Black Market is a great sorce of gun trading
Munsey, 96' (Christopher, March 31)
"Firearms stolen from residents and gun stores are the number one outlet for for
criminals. 'They are traded on the street in the brisk black-market whirl that
includes drugs & cash.' state police said.
D. Guns kill more teens than all diseases conbined.
Neergaad, 96'(AP, July 13)
"Guns kill more teen-agers than all other diseases combined. Gun related
homicides & suicides are rising. Firearms send almost 40,000 americans to thier
graves each year."
Contention 2. Availability of guns to juvililes has gone up.
A. Gun .....
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Under Age Drinking : The Problems It Creates
.... Now lets imagine another party where kids are drinking.
The bonfire is roaring, Bubba just decided that singeing everyone's
eyebrows off by throwing some gasoline on the fire would be fun. Of course
nobody thought that this was very funny except for Bubba. Bubba is not the only
teenage person at this party who has had a few to many. There are a lot of
under age kids who are just plain drunk. This is a regular kind of party in my
hometown, everyone goes out and drinks to get drunk. The sad thing is, that
these kind of parties happen a lot of time twice a week expecially during the
spring. All this partying catche .....
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U.S. Scourge Spreads South Of The Border
.... baby blue silk shirt, he sizes up the tourists
trudging off the footbridge from the United States. “Taxi, sir? You want
pharmacy? I get you a good pharmacy,” he urges, stepping from a line of
beckoning taxi drivers in big belts and straw cowboy hats. “Good prices! No
prescriptions!” Do I look like I want drugs?! I didn't even solicit the
business. I almost felt weird because this is exactly what I was planning to do
my paper on. Soon he is nosing his long yellow Oldsmobile through scruffy
streets choked with pharmacies. I asked for Somas-a drug that gives the user a
feeling of drunkenness without all the liquor, and ille .....
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Why Do Parents Abduct?
.... abducted children develop extremely close bonds with their abductors.
Often the abductors lie to the children about the other parent. They may say
that the other parent does not want the child or is dead. The longer the child
is away the harder it is for everyone involved. At these times, professional
help is strongly suggested.
Issues for Parent - their own feelings about the abduction - helping them to be
able to care for the child - helping them to bring the whole family together -
helping them to help readjust the other children - helping them to cope with any
odd behavior that may be exhibited by the abducted child - dev .....
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Capital Punishment
.... Murder, never take into account the consequences of their actions.
Deterrence to crime, is rooted in the individuals themselves. Every human has a
personal set of conduct. How much they will and will not tolerate. How far they
will and will not go. This personal set of conduct can be made or be broken by
friends, influences, family, home, life, etc. An individual who is never taught
some sort of restraint as a child, will probably never understand any limit as
to what they can do, until they have learned it themselves. Therefore, capital
punishment will never truly work as a deterrent, because of human nature to
ignore practised a .....
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Capital Punishment: Injustice Of Society
.... Stevenson,
the executive director of the Montgomery based Equal Justice Initiative, has
stated that, "…people are increasingly realizing that the more we resort to
killing as a legitimate response to our frustration and anger with violence, the
more violent our society becomes…We could execute all three thousand people on
death row, and most people would not feel any safer tomorrow."(Frame 51) In
addition, with the growing humanitarianism of modern society, the number of
inmates actually put to death is substantially lower than 50 years ago. This
decline creates a situation in which the death penalty ceases to be a deterrent
whe .....
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Capital Punishment: Does The End Justify The Means?
.... safety and welfare. Only by putting murderers
to death can society ensure that convicted killers do not kill again.
Second, those favoring capital punishment contend that society should
support those practices that will bring about the greatest balance of good over
evil, and capital punishment is one such practice. Capital punishment benefits
society because it may deter violent crime. While it is difficult to produce
direct evidence to support this claim since, by definition, those who are
deterred by the death penalty do not commit murders, common sense tells us that
they will die if they perform a certain act, they will be unw .....
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Capital Punishment: Pro
.... of the death penalty are in favour of making examples out of
offenders, and that the threat of death will be enough to deter the crime rate,
but the crime rate is irrelevant.
According to Isaac Ehrlich's study, published on April 16, 1976, eight murders
are deterred for each execution that is carried out in the U.S.A. He goes on to
say, "If one execution of a guilty capital murderer deters the murder of one
innocent life, the execution is justified." To most supporters of the death
penalty, like Ehrlich, if even 1 life is saved, for countless executions of the
guilty, it is a good reason for the death penalty. The theory t .....
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Capital Punishment: For
.... are their crimes. There is
no hope for criminals with this kind of behavior and mentality. I believe that
capital punishment is the key necessity.
If capital punishment was enforced for severe crimes, it would eliminate a
fair amount of tax money going towards the judiciary system. If a prison were
to maintain a deadly criminal sentenced for life starting at the age of thirty
and living to seventy, it would cost tax payers an unbelievable amount of two
million one hundred and thirty-six thousand dollars. It is hard to believe but
it is true, and imagine, if that is the cost of just one criminal, imagine the
astronomical am .....
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Capital Punishment Deters Murder, And Is Just Retribution
.... Supporters of the death penalty are in favour of making examples
out of offenders, and that the threat of death will be enough to deter the crime
rate, but the crime rate is irrelevant.
According to Isaac Ehrlich's study, published on April 16, 1976, eight
murders are deterred for each execution that is carried out in the U.S.A. He
goes on to say, "If one execution of a guilty capital murderer deters the murder
of one innocent life, the execution is justified." To most supporters of the
death penalty, like Ehrlich, if even 1 life is saved, for countless executions
of the guilty, it is a good reason for the death penalty. .....
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Capital Punishment
.... the criminal was
sentenced to death.
In America, only thirty-seven states authorize the death penalty. In
most of those thirty-seven states, murder is the only capital crime. The
Supreme Court requires that two conditions must be met in order for a specific
murder to warrant the death penalty (Nardo 32). The first condition is that it
must be first degree murder, which is the deliberate and premeditated taking of
life. The second is that one or more aggravating circumstances must be present.
Aggravating Circumstances refer to those aspects of a crime that increase its
severity. An example of an aggravating circumstance wou .....
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Capital Punishment: For And Against
.... to honor the rightful claims of
others. The utter and deliberate denial of life and opportunity to others
forfeits ones own claim to continued membership in the community, whose
standards have been so flagrantly violated. The preservation of moral community
demands that the shattering of the foundation of its existence must be taken
with utmost seriousness. The preciousness of life in a moral community must be
so highly honored that those who do not honor the life of others make null and
void their own right to membership. Those who violate the personhood of others,
especially if this is done persistently as a habit must pay t .....
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