Issue of Gun Control and Violence The issue of gun control and violence, both in Canada and the United States, is one that simply will not go away. ... The only positive effect , Mundt, found in the study was the decrease in the use of firearms in robbery with comparion to trends in the United States . ... As Mauser points out that "it has been argued that cultural differences account for why Canada has stricter gun control legislation than the United States"(575). Surprisingly enough, nationwide surveys in both Canada and the United States "show remarkable similarity i...

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I am sure that citizens of the United States who are not convicted felons or mental patients can and do carry concealed handguns without posing a risk to their fellow Americans. ... GUN CONTROL Since the days of the pioneers of the United States, firearms have been part of the American tradition as protection and a means of hunting or sport. ... Because of fast and steady increase in crime and the fight for the right to own a handgun, the introduction of legislation for gun control, to try to reduce the crime in the United States, has been a hotly debated issue in recent years. ... Opponents...

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Our national Constitution and Bill of Rights have ensured that the people of America maintain their basic rights, and more. ... The founding fathers made it crystal clear in the Constitution that the ability to own guns is a right, and this decision has been confirmed by our nation's courts and by the custom and practice of the generations that came before us throughout our history. ... The founding fathers anticipated that gun control could become a serious issue in the future, so they added the Second Amendment to the Constitution. The Second Amendment states: "A well-regulated mil...

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(Manning, Rhoden-Trader 23) The Supreme Court halted executions in the United States in 1972. ... It is unusual because only the United States of all the western industrialized nations engages in this punishment. ... (Love) Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun (once a supporter of executions) commented on the unfair application of capital punishment in the United States in 1994 saying, "I feel morally and intellectually obliged simply to concede that the death penalty experiment has failed The death penalty remains fraught with arbitrariness, discrimination, caprice, and mistake From this ...

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The Declaration of Independence states, "All men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights". ... Since the very beginning of the legal system in the United States, there has been inequality. ... Inequality has always existed in the United States legal system and continues to exist today; even though inequality presently in the system is not as blatant as what it once was, the system has come to depend on inequality. ...

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Everyone except the United States. ... Capital punishment portrays the United States poorly to the rest of the world. ... Recent studies concerning racial bias and wrongful convictions have leaded the governors of Maryland and Illinois to introduce a moratorium on the application of the death penalty in their states. ... But that states governor still decided to reinstate the death penalty. ...

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Plea bargaining in the United States is one of the most controversial issues due to the fact that the practice of plea bargaining is necessary because of the United States high crime rates, and insufficient facilities and personnel to try all cases. ... Upon researching how often plea bargains are used in the United states I found that in 2003 the Bureau of Justice Statistics disposed of 75,573 cases in federal district court by plea or trial, and of those according to Bureau of Justice Statistics about 90% to 95% of both federal and or state court cases were resolved by plea bargaining[Dev11]...

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(Michael Victory, END OF THE LINE 1994) Now the sentence of life imprisonment (in some states penal servitude for life', strict security life imprisonment', or for the term of his natural life') has become the most severe sanction authorized by Australian law. ... The following table shows that of the major Australian states, only South Australia experienced any sudden increase in murder or manslaughter convictions in the five years after abolition compared to the five years before, yet a detailed report on homicide published in 1981 by the South Australian Office of Crime Stat...

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(Question 1) Juvenile delinquency is a complex social problem that significantly impacts all members and processes of a social structure. Delinquency refers to a set of behaviors that are not in line with the collective practices and/or ethics of the dominant social group. Essentially, these b...

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