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- 681: Brief History of the NRA
- ... S., people and cargoes travel state to state without inspection or hindrance, if there is a shortage of goods, you simply move and find it. "Firearms are nowhere near the root of the problem of violence. As long as people come in unlike sizes, shapes, ages, and temperaments, as long as they diverge in their taste for risk and their willingness and capacity to prey on other people or to defend themselves from predation, and above all as long as some people have little or nothing to lose by spending their lives in crime, dispositions to violence will persist."17 As long as crime continues to pay, people most choose between being victims or to defend themselves and not be hindered by ineffective gun control laws. Bibliography 1. Blackman, Paul H, Richard E. Gardner, and Institute for Legislative Action. The N.R.A. and Criminal Justice Policy. Reston: NRA, 1986: 2. 2. Blackman, 3. 3. National Rifle Association - Institute for Legislative Action. The "Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act," Does it live up to it's name? Reston: NRA, 1996: 3. 4. National Rifle Association - Institute for Legislative Action, 9. 5. Kopel, David B. "Why Gun Waiting Periods Threaten Public Safety." ...
- 682: Martin Luther King - I Have A Dream Speech
- ... arguments will persuade his audience (153). King, quickly realized that the best strategy to liberate African-Americans and gain them rights was to use nonviolent forms of protest. He wanted to eliminate the use of violence as a means to manage and establish cooperative ways of interacting. "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere" (154). After all, he knew that any violence on the part of his civil rights workers would lead to violent counterattacks from segregationists. He knew this would only lead his followers to injury and death. "The purpose of our direct action is to ... ground and made the brutality of racists very apparent. In this way, King won many allies and gained passages of the civil rights bills of 1964 and 1965. Not only did King concentrate on non-violence in order to liberate African-Americans, but he also felt it was necessary that his message be important to all people regardless of race or class. This explained his disillusionment with the white moderate. ...
- 683: History of Turkish Occupation of Northern Kurdistan.
- ... for independence. Turkey has spent over eight billion dollars or twenty percent of her GDP to combat the ever deteriorating predicament in northern Kurdistan, and should spend more in the future(Laber). Because of the violence, the once prosperous tourist business of Turkey, has now lost about $1.5 billion dollars annually since 1990. Many people now talk openly of another possible military coup, there were three major military coups during ... five thousand years of Kurdish presence in Anatolia. After these and more repressive measures were taken out, the substantial Kurdish population began to revolt from the pressures unfairly exerted on them by the oppressive and violence prone state of Turkey. The early revolts were unorganized, lacked money, and poorly supplied. They lasted, on and off, a little over thirteen years. The retribution of the Turkish army was so extreme, they almost ... and the "slave-like dependence of women." A great amount of the P.K.K military force were female. The P.K.K also believed the only way to attain freedom and independence were through violence, much like the American and French revolution of mid 1700s. To conceive the P.K.K as completely leftist is untrue, they have adapted the Communist theme of ideology to counter-weight the Turkish ...
- 684: Development of Defense of Provocation
- ... case of Mancini the concept of provocation as a defence to murder was already a well established one dating back centuries. It originated from the days when men bore arms and engaged in quarrels of violence that often resulted in a homicide being committed. For provocation to be an ample defence to murder it needed to be something which incited immediate anger, or "passion" and which overcame a person's self ... words that conveyed information of a fact, or an alleged fact. In regards to verbal abuse Viscount Simon made his opinion clear; "the law expects a reasonable man to endure abuse without resorting to fatal violence," and in regards to the admission of adultery he also expressed his opinion as "a sudden confession of adultery without more can never constitute provocation of a sort which might reduce murder to manslaughter." Though ... English and Australian society has undergone some major changes. Whilst pluralism and multiculturalism are the more obvious changes, there has been changes such as material conditions of dependency, differing patterns of response to threats and violence, and an emphasis on accommodating the position of women and children. Perhaps the key indicator of the flexibility in the common law is the evolution of the "reasonable man" test. We have moved from ...
- 685: Commonwealth
- ... nationalism was becoming stronger and a nationalist group was founded. The IRB also continued to exist. These organisations believed that Britain would never allow Ireland freedom unless forced to do so by the use of violence. The IRB, the Irish Volunteers and the Citizen Army, a well organised workers defence force, trained along military lines organised a rising in Easter. It was once again a failure. The War of Independence and ... Volunteers and the Citizen Army. Its objectives were and are the complete withdrawal of the British Army and the establishment of a thirty-two country republic. The IRA has always believed in the use of violence. Their political beliefes are based on the writing of Wolfe Tone. Many Protestants today see the IRA as terrorists or extremist Catholic nationalists. In 1918 Sinn Fein won a landslide election victory. The IRA seeing ... on divorce was approved only by a majority of a few thousands votes. NI: is more liberal becaouse laws passed at Westminster are applicable throughout the UK. The effects of the years of almost continuous violence are difficult to measure. the youth have become almost immune to the killings. Some have also become involved with paramilitary groups.Youth is more willing to fight for a cause in which they believe ...
- 686: Coming Of Age In Mississippi
- ... to do her work the way she wanted . Through her high school years Anne becomes more and more aware of what is going on in the world around her . Her first realization of extreme racial violence was when she learned of Emmit Till's murder . Through learning of Emmit's death she also learns of groups such as the NAACP . One Sunday afternoon Anne sits down with Mrs. Rice and was ... by whites in the South . " I was fifteen years old when I began to hate people " , that is not only whites to which Anne is referring but also the blacks who let these acts of violence to continue happening . During her junior year of high school Anne left home and went to live with her dad for the remainder of the school year , she and her mom had a falling out ... civil rights activist in the south . I had no idea what they went through ! I have seen a few kinds of light discrimination in my lifetime but never understood the extent of all out racial violence that occurred during this period . I have definitely developed a deep sense of respect for the civil rights activist of the sixties since reading this book . Like I said in my opening paragraph some ...
- 687: Government Should Establish Program To Reduce Juvenile Crime
- ... states. This organization will consist of the current members, plus volunteers and paid officials who will work in communities all over the U.S. Plank III: Mandates Mandate 1. Schools will teach choice exercises, discourage violence and teach law and consequences to younger children in public elementary schools all over the country. It is obvious from the crime rates that children are not learning simple morals in their homes! Materials would ... Clinton in his state of the union address when he said, “...We have seen a stunning and simultaneous breakdown of community, family, and work. This has created a vast vacuum which has been filed by violence, drugs and gangs. So I ask you to remember that even as we say no to crime, we must give people, especially our young people something to say ‘yes' to” Advantage II. The federal government ... parents, the family structures in America may be improved. There are many success stories such as John Walker, age 11, who had the habit of getting into trouble with the law, including drugs and gang violence. After some professional counseling, he made straight A's every quarter and was student of the month twice. The generation of the future may have a future after all if these prevention plans go ...
- 688: Gun Control Is Needed
- ... is headed by Sarah Brady. Mrs. Brady is the wife of James Brady, who was shot during an attempt on president Reagan's life in 1981. Another major group is the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence (CSGV), which was formerly known as the National Coalition to Ban Handguns. The CSGV believes that handguns should be outlawed completely, with a few exceptions, such as the military, police and sportsmen who keep their ... amendment rights apply only to militia, which they define as a group such as the National Guard and not regular citizens. These people also believe that by controlling numbers of guns on the streets gun violence can be reduced. The national government doing working with the issue of gun control. There have been several bills passed in the last ten years that have to do with gun control. First, there was ... law applies only to militia, not individuals. The pro-gun control groups have the stronger case because they can prove that lives will be saved. Take away the guns, and there will be no gun violence, it makes sense. Appendix Figure 1.1 Handgun Control, Inc. "In 1988, handguns killed 7 people in Great Britain, 19 in Sweden, 53 in Switzerland, 25 in Israel, 13 in Australia, 8 in Canada, ...
- 689: Gun Control
- 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 ...
- 690: Aeschylus
- ... city-state. The concerns included first, how society is affected. That is, what is the result of revenge? If one member of a family were to take revenge on another, the pattern of vendetta and violence could go on forever. The fabric of society in ancient Greece is held together by the family; it is only through the family, for example, that you can gain your citizenship. When Aeschylus writes the ... husband, etc.) Many of the violent events are significant. The first significant violent development is the theft of Helen and the Trojan War that followed(recounted in Homer’s The Iliad). The second act of violence was Agamemnon’s sacrifice of his daughter Iphigenia. Clytemnestra was enraged of her daughters demise, therefore her revenger against her husband was justified in her actions. Perhaps the most vile display of violence is the terrible sin of Agamemnon’s father Atreus. He, Atreus, killed his brother’s children and cooked them for him. As a result inspires Aegisthus, Agamemnon’s cousin and Clytemnestra’s lover, seeks ...
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