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- 641: Gun Control
- ... the people, given in the second amendment "the right to bear arms", controlling distribution and sales and the registration of guns and gun owners is necessary because of the homicide rate involving guns and the violence by criminals using guns. Many people feel that gun control violates the right of the people given in the second amendment the right "to bear arms". Opponents of gun control, including the National Rifle Association ... ten times the murder rate of all Western Europe. For example in Washington,D.C. there was an estimated 400 homicides including guns. In addition gun control has been seen as necessary because of the violence by criminals using guns. Gun control is wrapped in a series of social issues such as crime and drugs. Guns have become closely linked to drugs and murder in the public mind. Drug dealing and ... guns and gun owners. But it is necessary for there to be certain limits on the way that firearms are handled in this country because of the homicide rate involving guns and because of the violence created by criminals using guns. If gun control legislation were to go through there would be a significant decline in gun related crimes and fatalities.
- 642: Failure of Gun Control Laws
- Failure of Gun Control Laws Americans are faced with an ever-growing problem of violence. Our streets have become a battleground where the elderly are beaten for their social security checks, where terrified women are viciously attacked and raped, where teen-age gangsters shoot it out for a patch of ... activists of the 1960s were able to restore the constitutional freedoms that blacks in this country were granted in the 1860s. Today's gun control activists are a slightly different breed. They claim that gun violence in this country has gotten to a point where something must be done to stop it. They would like to see criminals disarmed, and they want the random violence to stop. I agree with their sentiments. However, they are going about it in the wrong way. While claiming that they want to take guns out of the hands of criminals, they work to ...
- 643: Macbeth Essay
- ... castle, and thus relentlessly commits him to a career of Evil that leads him to ruin. He can never turn back and seek redemption. Once set upon his course, he moves from one act of violence to another in an effort to protect himself from inevitable disaster. Fear and hatred provoke him to plot the murder of Banquo and his son, for Banquo cannot help suspecting Macbeth's complicity in Duncan ... assassins to wipe out his family and by this act of cruelty makes certain of Macduff's merciless revenge. In the vain endeavor to ensure the security of the throne that he has obtained through violence, Macbeth adds evil to evil until his name is a cliche for tyranny and iniquity. Yet Shakespeare does not make a monster out of Macbeth. To have done so would have robbed him of any ... from the victorious defense of his country. Undoubtedly he has thought about his chances of gaining the throne, for the witched echo things in the dark recesses of his mind, but he shrinks from the violence required to seize the Crown. He is willing to show patience and wait, "If chance will have me King, why, chance may crown me, Without my stir" 25. He is near of kin to ...
- 644: The Issue of Gun Control
- ... the people, given in the second amendment "the right to bear arms", controlling distribution and sales and the registration of guns and gun owners is necessary because of the homicide rate involving guns and the violence by criminals using guns. Many people feel that gun control violates the right of the people given in the second amendment the right "to bear arms". Opponents of gun control, including the National Rifle Association ... ten times the murder rate of all Western Europe. For example in Washington,D.C. there was an estimated 400 homicides including guns. In addition, gun control has been seen as necessary because of the violence by criminals using guns. Gun control is wrapped in a series of social issues such as crime and drugs. Guns have become closely linked to drugs and murder in the public mind. Drug dealing and ... guns and gun owners. But it is necessary for there to be certain limits on the way that firearms are handled in this country because of the homicide rate involving guns and because of the violence created by criminals using guns. If gun control legislation were to go through there would be a significant decline in gun related crimes and fatalities.
- 645: The Death Penalty: To Be or Not to Be...
- The Death Penalty: To Be or Not to Be... For the past several months Americans have regularly listed crime and violence as the number - one problem facing the nation, far surpassing worries over the economy or health care. Despite the many government and community initiatives launched during recent years to reduce crime, most Americans see no ... over 350 %. More and more people today are starting to think that something is terribly wrong when a modern, civilized nation must confront statistics like these. The American public is demanding an end to this violence, and surveys show that they believe swift and harsh punishment is the most appropriate and effective means to these ends. The death penalty, or as it is sometimes being called " capital punishment " is the hardest ... personnel. It unduly burdens the system of criminal justice, and it is therefore counterproductive as an instrument for society's control of violent crime. It epitomizes the tragic inefficacy and brutality of the resort to violence rather than reason for the solution of difficult social problems. " As we can see, from these points of view, death penalty in it's every aspect is a thing that American society must get ...
- 646: Serial Killers in the U.S
- ... to get even with whomever or whatever they feel wronged them. Whatever their reason, they are usually cooperative and quite often docile if they survive the episode. It seems that this one-time outburst of violence, once enacted, puts an end to any future events of this type for that individual. While the mass killer may kill many people in one attack, when the attack is over, their mission is complete ... the "Phantom Fireman". Alaska's Robert Hansen, murderer of at least 17 women, was convicted of arson as a youth. An important fact is the "McDonald Triad" is not believed to be a cause of violence, but only a set of symptoms. The typical serial killer is a white male in his late 20s or 30s and murders his victims by beating or strangulation. He may appear cold, show no remorse ... might deny responsibility for his crimes, but psychosis or severe mental illness is rarely present. Only an estimated 10 to 15 percent of serial killers are women. Males are much more likely to use extreme violence such as bludgeoning, beating, strangling, or torture. Women on the other hand favored poisoning or smothering their victims. Where men would normally stalk their victims, the female se-rial killer would lure her victim ...
- 647: Macbeth An Expose
- ... transform him into a bloodthirsty tyrant. His ascent to power is ironically paralleled by his moral decay. Macbeth is not a tragic hero because he is a villain by intent. He chooses the evil and violence that inevitably consume him. The only tragic thing is the pain and anarchy this supposed hero leaves in his wake. Though not a hero, Macbeth is unaplogetically human. The issue of Macbeth's manhood constantly ... swords I smile at, weapons laugh to scorn./Brandish'd by man that's of woman born." This inevitably leads to his destruction. Macbeth is not heroic. He is deliberate in his villanous actions, using violence and deception to achieve his selfish aspirations. Macbeth commits regicide, thought to be the ultimate sin, in murdering the divinely ordained king. Why does he commit such a horrific crime? Does he desire to better Scotland: Not in the least. Macbeth wants power. This poorly calculated and incompetently performed crime splinters into a myriad of murders and deceits. Throughout the cycle of violence, Macbeth's purpose remains the same: to have his insecurities assuaged and his vain ambitions achieved. All this evil is compounded by Macbeth's human frailties but the repercussions and reverberations of this man' ...
- 648: Macbeth By William Shakespear
- ... them to be found and looked more like witches. In Polanski s vision Macbeth dies in a sword fight with Macduff who was not born of a mother's womb. There is a lot of violence and blood, they both get injured but at the end Macbeth s head gets chopped off and waved around on a stick. But in the BBC version he gets shot and dies very quick. Polanski uses a long ending with lots of violence and injuries and can also pay for the special effect when he Macbeth s head is put on a stick this is because it was for cinema they want to put some extra excitement and have a build up to the ending. Whereas the BBC did not have a large budget and so they did not have a long ending because they would not want to introduce too much violence into the film because it was for direct home viewing. I think Polanski s version of Macbeth was the best because it was more like what we would expect it to be, very traditional ...
- 649: The Banning of Guns Is Ineffective
- The Banning of Guns Is Ineffective Americans are faced with an ever-growing problem of violence. Our streets have become a battleground where the elderly are beaten for their social security checks, where terrified women are viciously attacked and raped, where teen-age gangsters shoot it out for a patch of ... activists of the 1960s were able to restore the constitutional freedoms that blacks in this country were granted in the 1860s. Today's gun control activists are a slightly different breed. They claim that gun violence in this country has gotten to a point where something must be done to stop it. They would like to see criminals disarmed, and they want the random violence to stop. I agree with their sentiments. However, they are going about it in the wrong way. While claiming that they want to take guns out of the hands of criminals, they work to ...
- 650: Capital Punishment: Injustice of Society
- ... the victim's family."(Grisham 120) Realistically, imposing the death penalty is expensive and time consuming. Retroactively, it has yet to be proven as a deterrent. Morally, it is a continuation of the cycle of violence and "...degrades all who are involved in its enforcement, as well as its victim."(Stewart 1) Perhaps the most frequent argument for capital punishment is that of deterrence. The prevailing thought is that imposition of ... 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 ... the death penalty, their own consciences will be burdened by the death of the killer. Furthermore, "[k]illing him will not bring back your son[s]."(Grisham 402). At some point, man must stop the violence. Seeking temporary gratification is not a logical basis for whether the death penalty should be imposed. Granted, revenge is easily confused with retribution, and most would agree that the punishment should fit the crime, ...
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