Gun Control: Is It A Problem?
.... create laws to protect the rights of others.
I believe stricter gun control laws and better education on the use of
guns is necessary. People of the U.S. aren't as rigidly regulated by gun laws
compared to our European neighbors. In the United States it takes anywhere from
a few days to a couple of weeks to get a permit to carry a handgun. However, in
most crimes committed with a handgun, the gun isn't even licensed. More
authority is necessary to control the illegal handling of handguns. In England,
guns which are permitted for hunting are required to be signed out, purpose of
use stated, and the type of gun.
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Firearms; Vital Tools For Self Defense Or Deadly Killers?
.... prisons across the nation were
interviewed. Sixty percent feared being shot by an armed citizen more than
being shot by the police. fifty - three percent did not commit a specific
crime because they were afraid the victim was armed. Fifty - seven percent of
them were scared off by an armed victim who either brandished a gun or actually
fired it.3 This alone shows that crime would drop if more citizens owned,
carried and knew how to use guns.
One such case involved eleven - year old Jason Green of Houston, Texas.
Home alone one night, he heard noises in the house. Arming himself with his
father's shotgun he investigated a .....
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Having A Gun
.... to authorities that vicious criminals, in spite of
this legislation, will still manage somehow to get the firearms.
Innocent people, however, will suffer, because they will be less likely
to obtain handguns in order to protect themselves and their families. Therefore,
it would not be hard to imagine the carnage of the citizens, should there not be
any guns in their homes. The criminals would walk in at any time they desired,
they would take whatever they wanted, rape whom they wanted, and shoot whoever
would resist.
The Government defended the enactment of this law by declaring that
people could not be secure as long as t .....
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In Cold Blood: Death Penalty
.... has long since left behind the archaic and
barbous" customs" from the cruel "eye for an eye" anti-human caves of religion-
another factor that should raise immediate misgivings for freethinkers.
State killings are morally bankrupt. Why do governments kill people to
show other people that killing people is wrong? Humanity becomes associated with
murderers when it replicate their deeds. Would society allow rape as the penalty
for rape or the burning of arsonists' homes as the penalty for arson?
The state should never have the power to murder its subjects. To give
the state this power eliminates the individual' .....
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Investigation Techniques Of A Homicide
.... were dead and if they were, how
and when. After the medical examiner looked at the bodies and the wounds on the
victims, he concluded that they were stabbed to death. The time of death was a
bit harder to determine. Death caused some changes to the bodies. The
investigator looked at the changes and was able to estimate a time of death.
Some of the changes the examiners look for are: lost of body temperature,
rigor mortis, and postmortem lividity. The body temperature will start to
decrease after death. The body will also start to stiffen after death, this is
call rigor mortis. Rigor mortis usually starts to set in two to four hour .....
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The Unabomber: Is He Serious?
.... He was convinced that due to the industrial-
technological system in which we live, ultimately humans are going to be
subjected to world wide suffering and inevitably a total shut down of humanity.
Now at this moment I felt a little disbelief. I had heard he was actually an
intelligent person, but I was starting to wonder.
His whole theory was based on the fact, that at one point or another,
the human race will be taken to the point of complete break down. He feels that
if it's bound to happen, we should make it happen now. The longer we wait, the
more people will suffer. Now, I know our sun will eventually burn out, so .....
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Jury Nullification And Its Effects On Black America
.... means
by which to reduce variance within the system, the most recent, and probably
most contentious, is that of Paul Butler, Associate Professor of Law, George
Washington University Law School, and former Special Assistant United States
Attorney in the District of Columbia. Butler's thesis, published in an article
in the Yale Law Journal, is that "for pragmatic and political reasons, the black
community is better off when some nonviolent lawbreakers remain in the community
rather than go to prison. The decision as to what kind of conduct by African-
Americans ought to be punished is better made by African-Americans themselv .....
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Juvenile Crime
.... of aggression and antisocial behavior”
and these children are twice as likely to become juvenile offenders. Also
improper parental care has been linked to delinquency such as mothers who drink
alcohol or take drugs during pregnancy cause their babies to grow up with
learning disorders, a problem which leads them to be juvenile criminals.
Another risk factor is the effect of the media on the juveniles of today.
Before the time a child has reached seventh grade, the average child has
witnessed 8,000 murders and 100,000 acts of violence on the television. There
is no doubt that heavy exposure to televised violence is one of th .....
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Juvenile Justice
.... Census projects that the juvenile population, reported to be 27.1
million in 1994, will rise to 33.8 million by the year 2004 (67).
At the heart of this controversy: the juvenile justice system. For the
past several years the system has been under attack by every one from state
legislatures to parenteen groups. Our solution to the rising juvenile crime
problem- to get tougher. According to a recent USA Today/CNN/Gallup Poll, 60
percent of Americans believe that a teenager convicted of murder should get the
death penalty (ollson48). In response to this “get tough” mood, more and more
states are passing legislation to try youths .....
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Law And Morality
.... days is for one to
die. Somehow they have contacted an outside source to advise them on the
questions of "Who shall die?", and "How should the decision of choosing the
person be carried out?" These are all very difficult questions to answer, but
something must be done. It is unlikely that someone will voluntarily allow
someone to kill them so that the others may live, that is why another form of
decision making must be allowed. The best way to do so is probably by that
outside aid to suggest that they try drawing lots. For example whoever pulls the
shortest straw is the one who dies. With no time to procrastinate, this would
se .....
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Law Of Nations: An Overview
.... and unreason."
Nietzsche proposes that man's natural existence be, in essence, nihilistic.
Logically, the political entity known as the state, created by man will inherit
these traits. Thus, the conclusion is that the creation and institution of
international law are in direct violation to nature.
However, international law exists and states "generally" submit
themselves to it. . Since most of this law is derived from codified norms of
states, the term submission can be used. There is a disservice committed to
humanity when the law is broken, not just to those who are weaker in the global
community but to the law itself. A .....
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Laws Of War
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execution of such plan.1
The above excerpt comes form the Charter of the Tribunal Article 6 section C,
which makes it quite clear that in general the "laws of war" are there to
protect innocent civilians before and during war.
It seems to be a fair idea to have such rules governing armed conflict in order
to protect the civilians in the general location of such a conflict. But, when
the conflict is over, and if war crimes have been committed, how then are
criminals of war brought to justice? The International Military Tribunals held
after World War II in Nuremberg on 20 November 1945 and in Tokyo on 3 May 1946
are excellent e .....
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