English Research Paper Sophmore by Michael Green https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8 Will Gun Control Regulations Fix Any Problems en-us 2017-02-27 21:48:50 UTC 2026-03-04 09:28:22 UTC hello@padlet.com 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/156896027 2017-03-01 00:10:16 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/156896027 Source A 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/156896099 2017-03-01 00:10:43 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/156896099 A 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/158746706 A study by Mount St. Mary´s had 77 volunteers participate in 3 scenarios(carjacking, armed robbery, and a case of suspected larceny). The Washington Post on examination found that those with firearms training did better than those without it. 
(Vince et al 28-37)]]> 2017-03-08 17:37:38 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/158746706 bgdv 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/158752500 2017-03-08 17:52:50 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/158752500 A 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/158752847 During the study 36% of volunteers shouted commands during any of the scenarios, 27% placed their finger on the trigger of the weapon prior to the first scenario, and 26% chose to take cover behind the padded barriers during the scenario.
(Vince et al 28-37)]]> 2017-03-08 17:53:39 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/158752847 A 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/158841653 Only those that would be classified as skilled shooters took cover to protect themselves, exercised trigger discipline to reduce the chance of firing accidentally, or issued commands to try and reduce the chances of a deadly outcome. The training gave the volunteers more confidence to execute the right decisions. 
(Vince et al 28-37)]]> 2017-03-09 00:05:46 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/158841653 Source B 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/159030433 2017-03-09 16:21:54 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/159030433 B 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/159030793 "Gun Control." Opposing Viewpoints Online Collection, Gale, 2016. Opposing Viewpoints in Context, link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/PC3010999212/OVIC?u=pl2020&xid=65ef6ea1. Accessed 9 Mar. 2017.]]> 2017-03-09 16:22:47 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/159030793 B 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/159031850 The United States is the leader in per-capital gun deaths among industrial nations.
(Gun Control)]]> 2017-03-09 16:25:08 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/159031850 B 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/159032243 U.S Constitution: 
"A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
(Gun Control)]]> 2017-03-09 16:26:04 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/159032243 B 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/159033014 Gun-control advocates argue that when the Second Amendment was adopted in 1791, each state maintained a militia, composed of ordinary citizens who served as part-time soldiers. These militias were “well-regulated”—subject to state requirements concerning training, firearms, and periodic military exercises.According to gun-control supporters, in modern times, the amendment should protect only the states’ right to arm their own military forces, including their National Guard units.
(Gun Control)

]]> 2017-03-09 16:27:40 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/159033014 B 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/159033339 Opponents of gun control interpret the Second Amendment as the guarantee of a personal right to keep and bear arms. They claim that the amendment protects the general public, who were viewed as part of the general militia, as distinguished from the “select militia” controlled by the state.
(Gun Control)]]> 2017-03-09 16:28:22 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/159033339 Source C 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/159059963 2017-03-09 17:30:58 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/159059963 C 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/159060579 There is no discernible upward trend in the number of mass shooting incidents. Dr. Grant Duwe has estimated that 32 mass shootings occurred in the 1980s, 42 in the 1990s, and 26 in the 2000s.
(Malcolm et al)]]> 2017-03-09 17:32:18 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/159060579 C 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/159062762 Gun ownership does not correlate with increased violence. For example, the rate of gun ownership is higher in rural areas than in urban areas, but the murder rate is higher in urban areas. Similarly, according to one study, blacks are more likely to be victims of violent crimes than whites, but gun ownership among blacks is notably lower than among whites. In localities where right-to-carry laws were enacted, communities saw a decline in murder rates and instances of other violent crimes.
(Malcolm et al)]]> 2017-03-09 17:37:49 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/159062762 C 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/159063048 The fact that gun ownership does not correlate with increased violence is also the same for other countries.  Gun ownership is roughly three times as high in Switzerland as it is in Germany, yet the Swiss have had lower murder rates. Other countries with high rates of gun ownership and low murder rates include Israel, New Zealand, and Finland.
(Malcolm et al)]]> 2017-03-09 17:38:28 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/159063048 l 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/159063829 2017-03-09 17:40:17 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/159063829 C 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/159064471 If gun control were a panacea, then Washington, D.C., Oakland, and Chicago, which have very strict gun control laws, would be among the safest places to live rather than among the most dangerous. While some countries with strict gun control laws, such as Japan, experience very little violence as a result of criminal use of firearms, other countries, such as Russia, Brazil, and Mexico, have stricter gun control laws but higher per capita rates of violence through the criminal use of guns than the United States does.
(Malcolm et al)]]> 2017-03-09 17:41:58 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/159064471 C 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/159064834 During the decade that the assault weapons ban was in place, our nation's public schools were subjected to over two dozen incidents of violence through the criminal use of guns—including the Columbine [High School] massacre, in which Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, killed 12 students and a teacher before shooting themselves. 
(Malcolm et al)

]]> 2017-03-09 17:42:53 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/159064834 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/159065301 Moreover, gun bans create vulnerabilities by disarming law-abiding citizens. Professor of criminology Gary Kleck of Florida State University found that the number of defensive gun uses may be as high as 2.1 million to 2.5 million times per year.

]]> 2017-03-09 17:44:10 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/159065301 C 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/159065540  Examples include, among others, an assistant principal who stopped Luke Woodham who, after killing his mother at home, killed two students and wounded seven others at a high school in Pearl, Mississippi, in 1997; the dance hall owner who stopped Andrew Wurst after he killed a teacher and wounded three others at an eighth-grade graduation dance in Edinboro, Pennsylvania, in 1998; and, the students who stopped Peter Odighizuwa after he killed a dean, a professor, and a student and wounded three others at Appalachian School of Law in Grundy, Virginia, in 2002.
(Malcolm et al)]]> 2017-03-09 17:44:55 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/159065540 C 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/159067167 Malcolm, John G., and Jennifer A. Marshall. "Gun Control Won't Prevent School Shootings." School Safety, edited by Noah Berlatsky, Greenhaven Press, 2016. Opposing Viewpoints. Opposing Viewpoints in Context, link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/EJ3010981212/OVIC?u=pl2020&xid=13cb9d4a. Accessed 9 Mar. 2017. Originally published as "The Newtown Tragedy: Complex Causes Require Thoughtful Analysis and Responses," www.heritage.org, 18 Jan. 2013.]]> 2017-03-09 17:49:08 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/159067167 Source D 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/159068011 2017-03-09 17:51:43 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/159068011 D 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/159068335 Jowit, Juliette, Sandra Laville, Calla Wahlquist, Philip Oltermann, Justin McCurry, and Lois Beckett. "So, America, This Is How Other Countries Do Gun Control." The Guardian. Guardian News and Media, 14 Mar. 2016. Web. 09 Mar. 2017.]]> 2017-03-09 17:52:40 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/159068335 D UK 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/159068524 Gun Control started in 1996 after Thomas Hamilton unloaded his legally held arsenal of handguns on children and staff at Dunblane school on March 13. 
(Jowit et al)]]> 2017-03-09 17:53:10 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/159068524 D 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/159069306 Public petitions, most notably by the Snowdrop Campaign, founded by friends of the bereaved families, called for a total ban on the private ownership and use of handguns in the UK. Signed by 750,000 people it was symbolic of the weight of public opinion.
(Jowit et al)]]> 2017-03-09 17:55:21 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/159069306 D 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/159069508 The Conservative then prime minister, John Major, passed the Firearms (Amendment) Act 1997 after the Cullen inquiry into the massacre. It banned all cartridge ammunition handguns, except 22 calibre single-shot weapons.
(Jowit et al)]]> 2017-03-09 17:55:59 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/159069508 D Japan 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/159069988 As of 2011, legal gun ownership stood at 271,000, according to police records, in a country of 127 million people.
(Jowit et al)]]> 2017-03-09 17:57:16 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/159069988 D 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/159335906 Before they can even lay hands on a shotgun for hunting and sport shooting, prospective owners must attend classes and pass written and practical exams. They must then undergo psychological assessments to determine they are fit to own a firearm. Police background checks are exhaustive and even extend to the gun owners’ relatives.
(Jowit et al)]]> 2017-03-10 17:27:15 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/159335906 D Australia 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/159336698 Eerily, Australia’s moment of truth also occurred almost exactly 20 years ago, when a shooting spree in a gift shop in Port Arthur, Tasmania, resulted in 35 people dying in about half an hour. It was the worst mass shooting by one person in Australia’s history. The killer, Martin Bryant, received a sentence of 35 terms of life imprisonment.
(Jowit et al)]]> 2017-03-10 17:29:51 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/159336698 D 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/159337108 Howard proposed each state and territory should introduce and enforce a firearm licensing and registration system which required people to have a “genuine reason” for having a firearm, such as sport or target shooting, recreational hunting or being a farmer.
(Jowit et al)]]> 2017-03-10 17:31:07 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/159337108 D 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/159338645 One study said the buyback cut the rate of firearm suicides by 74% in the first 10 years.

There have been no mass shootings in the 20 years since Port Arthur; in the 20 years before the massacre there had been 13.
(Jowit et al)
]]> 2017-03-10 17:36:09 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/159338645 D Germany 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/159339894 Germany’s relationship with firearms is intriguing: while there are a lot of guns in the country, they don’t seem to kill a lot of people.
(Jowit et al)
]]> 2017-03-10 17:39:59 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/159339894 D 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/159340100 Germany has one of the highest weapons-per-head rates in the world. In 2014, 5.5m legal weapons were registered as being in the hands of 1.45 million private individuals. The country’s police union estimates the number of illegal weapons in the country to be considerably higher, around 20m. According to GunPolicy.org, this puts Germany at 15th place out of 175 nations in terms of guns per capita.
(Jowit et al)]]> 2017-03-10 17:40:38 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/159340100 D 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/159340204 Yet in Germany gun homicide rate is one of the lowest in Europe: a death rate of 0.05 per 1,000 people, compared with 3.34 in the US. In fact, incidents of gun crime, including both weapons being fired and used to threaten people, have declined by almost a quarter since 2010 (pdf).
(Jowit et al)]]> 2017-03-10 17:40:59 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/159340204 Source E 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/159750454 2017-03-13 16:53:57 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/159750454 E 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/160601934 Stray, Jonathan. “Gun Violence in America: The 13 Key Questions (With 13 Concise Answers).” The Atlantic, Atlantic Media Company, 4 Feb. 2013, www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/02/gun-violence-in-america-the-13-key-questions-with-13-concise-answers/272727/. Accessed 16 Mar. 2017.]]> 2017-03-16 17:02:25 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/160601934 E 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/160602198 America still has a homicide rate of 4.7 murders per 100,000 people, which is one of the highest of all developed countries 
(Stray)]]> 2017-03-16 17:03:08 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/160602198 E 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/160602713 by asking many people how much they would pay to avoid this threat -- a technique called contingent valuation -- researchers have estimated a cost to American society of $100 billion dollars.
(Stray)]]> 2017-03-16 17:04:44 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/160602713 E 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/160602848 Guns are also involved in suicides and accidents. 19,392 of 38,264 suicides in 2010 involved a gun (50%), according to the CDC. There were 606 firearm-related accidents in the same year -- about 5% of the number of intentional gun deaths.
(Stray)]]> 2017-03-16 17:05:11 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/160602848 E 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/160603331 Mass shootings happen all over the country.
Killers used a semi-automatic handgun in 75% of incidents, which is about the same percentage as the 72% in overall gun violence.
Killers used an assault weapon in 40% of incidents. This is much higher than overall assault weapon use in crimes, estimated at less than 2%.
The guns were obtained legally in 79% of mass shootings.
Many of the shooters showed signs of mental illness, but in only two cases was there a prior diagnosis.
There were no cases where an armed civilian fired back.


]]> 2017-03-16 17:06:40 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/160603331 E 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/160603784 The National Firearms Act of 1934 restricts civilians from owning automatic weapons, short-barreled shotguns, hand grenades, and other powerful arms. The Gun Control Act of 1968 focuses on commerce. It prohibits mail-order sales of weapons, and requires anyone in the business of selling guns to be federally licensed and keep permanent sales records. It also prohibits knowingly selling a gun to those with prior criminal records, minors, individuals with mental health problems, and a few other categories of people.
(Stray)]]> 2017-03-16 17:07:57 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/160603784 E 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/160603956 The Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act of 1993 requires licensed gun dealers to perform background checks. Background checks are not required for private gun sales (though, as mentioned above, it's still a crime to knowingly sell a gun to someone with a criminal record). 
(Stray)]]> 2017-03-16 17:08:30 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/160603956 E 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/160604184 From 1994 to 2004, the Federal Assault Weapons Ban prohibited the sale and manufacture of semi-automatic weapons (in which each pull of the trigger fires one shot) with various military features such as large-capacity magazines and pistol grips. It was still legal to keep previously owned weapons. The law expired in 2004 due to a built-in "sunset" clause.
(Stray)]]> 2017-03-16 17:09:08 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/160604184 Source F 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/160678984 2017-03-16 23:35:21 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/160678984 F 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/160679058 Loopholes now exist in the background check system that make it possible for people with criminal records or mental health issues to procure guns. For instance, a gun purchased over the Internet or from a private individual at a gun show is not subject to a background check because neither instance involves licensed gun sellers.
(Shabad and Kaplan)]]> 2017-03-16 23:36:03 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/160679058 F 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/160679112 The White House has also weighed the idea of imposing background check requirements on gun dealers who sell a large number of firearms and requiring them to be licensed by the ATF.
(Shabad and Kaplan)]]> 2017-03-16 23:36:35 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/160679112 F 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/160679168 In the wake of the Paris terror attacks, Democrats also introduced legislation that would stop people on the U.S. no-fly list from purchasing guns and ammunition.
(Shabad and Kaplan)]]> 2017-03-16 23:36:51 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/160679168 F 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/160679275 Murphy, a career psychologist, has been working on the legislation since the Newtown shooting. His bill aims to improve treatment for people with serious mental health issues like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder and increase the availability of beds for psychiatric patients. These strategies would both reduce the chances that those with mental health issues become violent and get more people into mental health treatment - and into the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, so they can't purchase guns.
(Shabad and Kaplan)]]> 2017-03-16 23:37:25 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/160679275 F 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/160679438 "These are people we can identify and help early on for treatment...many of these cases never have to advance to level of violence," Murphy told CBS News.
(Shabad and Kaplan)]]> 2017-03-16 23:40:02 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/160679438 F 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/160679472 Addressing mental health issues, he said, accounts "for a relatively small share of all acts of serious violence. If we magically came up with a total cure for all mental illness, we would prevent no more than 5 percent of violent crime."
(Shabad and Kaplan)]]> 2017-03-16 23:40:34 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/160679472 F 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/160679520 There may also be ways to make guns less dangerous to store. New technology in "smart guns" recognizes the owners' fingerprints or hand grip or has other features controlled by the owner, so firearms can't be stolen or accidentally fired by a child.
(Shabad and Kaplan)]]> 2017-03-16 23:41:17 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/160679520 F 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/160679597 Legislators could also look at ways to try to crack down on illegal gun sales. This would involve a gun trafficking statute, "so you can go up to people who are buying guns in big quantities and selling on the street, going after gun stores that make a lot of illegal sales, going after what are called straw purchasers" - people who purchase guns for others, Kessler said.
(Shabad and Kaplan)]]> 2017-03-16 23:42:20 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/160679597 F 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/160679705 Shabad, Rebecca Kaplan Rebecca. “Five Ways the U.S. Could Reduce Gun Violence.” CBS News, CBS Interactive, 4 Dec. 2015, www.cbsnews.com/news/five-ways-the-us-could-reduce-gun-violence/. Accessed 16 Mar. 2017.]]> 2017-03-16 23:43:57 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/160679705 Source G 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/162845785 2017-03-27 15:04:19 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/162845785 G 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/162846652 Sunrise, Fla.: A burglar was fatally shot Monday after breaking into a home in the 4300 block of Northwest 103rd Terrace in Sunrise, authorities said. Police said the suspect was taken to Broward Health Medical Center, where he later died.]]> 2017-03-27 15:06:44 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/162846652 G 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/162846764 Philadelphia: Police are investigating after a suspect was shot during an attempted robbery in Philadelphia’s Feltonville section. It happened around 6 p.m. Sunday in the 100 block of Rockland Street.

Police say a man in his 20s was trying to rob a person when the victim opened fire, shooting the suspect twice in the leg. The suspect was taken to Temple University Hospital, where there was no word on his condition. The victim was not injured.
]]> 2017-03-27 15:06:58 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/162846764 G 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/162846943 Cleveland: A 68-year-old man shot and killed one of two home-invasion suspects who broke into his home late Sunday. The shooting occurred about 8:30 p.m. in the 2200 block of East 38th Street.
The homeowner told police he was in bed when he heard two loud noises that sounded like someone was breaking into his home, police reports say. He went downstairs with his gun and saw two men standing in his kitchen. Both men started to charge at him, according to police. The man told police he screamed and fired two shots, then ran upstairs and called 911.]]> 2017-03-27 15:07:21 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/162846943 G 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/162847150 Chicago: Two men were shot by an employee of a store they were trying to rob Sunday night in the West Rogers Park neighborhood on the North Side. About 9:45 p.m., the men, ages 18 and 20, entered the store in the 7400 block of North Western and announced a robbery, according to Chicago Police. A man working at the store at the time then discharged his weapon, striking both men before they left the scene.]]> 2017-03-27 15:07:51 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/162847150 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/162847296 http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/nov/29/good-guys-with-guns-save-lives/]]> 2017-03-27 15:08:13 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/162847296 Source 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/162848756 2017-03-27 15:11:42 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/162848756 H 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/162849100 Kopel, David. “Opinion | D.C. Gun Registration Law Ruled Partly Unconstitutional.” The Washington Post, WP Company, 18 Sept. 2015, www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/09/18/d-c-gun-registration-law-ruled-unconstitutional/?utm_term. Accessed 27 Mar. 2017.]]> 2017-03-27 15:12:37 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/162849100 H 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/162849217
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit today ruled that several parts of the District’s gun registration law violate the Second Amendment. The court held the following provisions unconstitutional:

  • registered guns be re-registered every three years.
  • a gun must be physically brought to the D.C. police headquarters in order to registered.
  • persons seeking to register a gun must pass a test about firearms laws.
  • prohibition on registering more than one handgun per month.
  • (Kopel)
]]> 2017-03-27 15:12:57 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/162849217 H 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/162849440 Today’s decision involved the same lead plaintiff, Dick Anthony Heller, as the Supreme Court case. The plaintiffs were represented by Stephen Halbrook, who has previously won four Supreme Court cases involving gun control laws.
(Kopel)]]> 2017-03-27 15:13:32 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/162849440 H 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/162849555 In evaluating the constitutionality of D.C.’s firearms laws, the court applied “intermediate scrutiny.” The test asks whether a law “promotes a substantial governmental interest that would be achieved less effectively absent the regulation,” and whether “the means chosen are not substantially broader than necessary to achieve that interest.”
(Kopel)]]> 2017-03-27 15:13:49 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/162849555 H 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/162849684 The laws that were ruled unconstitutional failed because they did not advance a government interest “in a direct and material way.” The “direct and material” requirement comes from Supreme Court precedent such as Turner Broadcasting v. FCC  (1994).
(Kopel)]]> 2017-03-27 15:14:10 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/162849684 G 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/164488449 Times, The Washington. “Armed and Alive.” The Washington Times, The Washington Times, 29 Nov. 2016, www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/nov/29/good-guys-with-guns-save-lives/. Accessed 3 Apr. 2017.]]> 2017-04-03 22:11:05 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/164488449 A 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/164667366  “Research By Gun Control Group Shockingly Comes To Predetermined Conclusion.” Bearing Arms, 28 Feb. 2017, bearingarms.com/bob-o/2017/02/28/shocking-research-gun-control-fanatics-comes-predetermined-conclusion/. Accessed 4 Apr. 2017.]]> 2017-04-04 16:35:48 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/164667366 I 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/166563845 2017-04-17 15:08:48 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/166563845 I 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/166564069 Milligan, Susan. “We Need Gun Control to Stop More Than Criminals.” U.S. News & World Report, U.S. News & World Report, 16 Jan. 2014, www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/susan-milligan/2014/01/16/we-need-gun-control-to-stop-more-than-criminals. Accessed 17 Apr. 2017.]]> 2017-04-17 15:09:52 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/166564069 J 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/166566691 2017-04-17 15:20:38 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/166566691 19greenmr https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/166566872 Krieg, Gregory. “Gun Control in America: How We Got Here.” CNN, Cable News Network, 8 July 2016, www.cnn.com/2016/01/07/politics/gun-control-america-history-timeline/. Accessed 17 Apr. 2017.]]> 2017-04-17 15:21:25 UTC https://padlet.com/19greenmr/rpfrbj8eg4m8/wish/166566872