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Guilty By Reason Reason Of Insanity
1,381 wordsThe Effect of John Hinckley Jr. on the Insanity Defense The insanity defense has always been a very controversial issue in the United States. Many people do not believe that by being classified as insane is a viable excuse for committing a crime, especially one as heinous as murder. There are many opponents to the use of the insanity plea because they feel that those who are found not guilty by reason of insanity are not punished for their criminal actions. Over time there have been several chan...
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Gun Control Legislation Five Day Waiting Period
1,077 wordsIn the 1960 s after the assassinations of President John F. Kenedy, Dr. Martin Luther King, and Senator Robert F. Kenedy, gun control became a major subject of public passion and controversy. To some people gun control is a crime issue, to others it is a rights issue. Gun control is a safety issue, an education issue, a racial issue, and a political issue, among others. Within each of these issues there are those who want more gun control legislation and those who want less. On both sides of thi...
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President Ronald Reagan Law Abiding Citizens
1,398 wordsI do not believe any one of us would want just anyone to be able to buy any kind of weapon they want. What I do believe is the issue at hand is not gun control but crime. That is what our main focus as a nation should be. Lets stop treating the symptoms and start treating the decease. In a recent article of Gun Control: An Issue for the Nineties. David Newton, of New Jersey reviles. In 1994, 18, 954 Americans were murdered. Of that number, 11, 832 or 62 percent were killed by guns. On the averag...
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York Henry Holt Gun Control Activists
1,780 wordsA problem that has developed recently in our society is the debate over gun control. Many questions arise concerning who should be able to own guns, and how those particular guns are obtained. One major debate is over our Constitutional right to own guns. I want to know when the government should draw the line. Statistics are not the only way a point can be proven about the harmful effects that guns have on our society. Stories from parents who have lost children, or children left fatherless or ...
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Mentally Ill Mental Hospitals
624 wordsHow can a person commit a serious crime and be found not guilty? This question can be answered with one word, insanity. If you were to look up the word insanity in the Webster dictionary, it would state: crazy, not legally responsible for one s actions. In some court cases today defendants are pleading not guilty do to insanity. The court is excepting this because as the definition say s they where not responsible for their actions. Because of this one word, and it s meaning, killers, rapists, a...
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