Posting Problems

Hello... I had some difficulty with the blog list and the link list. The list shows up when I'm trying to view the customize options. But the templates and the overall blog was modified to the best of my ability. Thank you for the overall experience!

Addition To Wikipedia

Hello all! The article that I contributed to on the Wikipedia encyclopedia was an article by the name of "Gun Culture". My post was "Synopsis- Although there has been recent yet habitually occurring criticisms concerning whether the current gun laws within the United States are too strict or whether further various amendments are needed a comfortable medium has not and quite possibly never be reach due to conflicting opinions deriving from past environment, peace stances, or natural cultural inclinations. A common perspective commonly shared is that making the gun laws more strict will yield a decrease in violent crimes but the reality is this, criminals will be criminals. Meaning that criminals never needed a CCW to pull off other capers in the history of this nation so why would tighter gun laws help? If anything more changes in the gun law spectrum will only make it harder for good law biding citizens of the United States to be able to protect themselves and the lives of their loved ones." and my user name was miss u mom. At the current time I don't know if my addition was deleted or not but hopefully not lol! The experience was good due to the fact that it was an opportunity to learn and actually feel like I contributed to something meaningful.

Gun Laws Quiz w/answers

1. Is there a waiting period on gun sales? No
2. Are handguns buyers required to complete safety training? Yes
3. Is it required that you register all of your guns with law enforcement? Yes
4. Are background checks required at gun shows? Yes
5. Do state police and federal NICS perform a background check? Yes
6. Is it mandatory that locking devices be sold with guns? Yes
7. Is a license or permit required to buy handguns? Yes
8. Are background checks required on "private" gun sales? Yes
9. Are there any restrictions regarding minors possessing guns? Yes
10. May the police limit carrying concealed handguns? No

Gun Facts Due 11/19/08

Fact 1: Most crime guns are stolen property, which makes finding the original owner worthless.

Fact 2: "Firearms that generate markings on cartridge casings can change with use and can also be readily altered by the users. They are not permanently defined like fingerprints or DNA."

Fact 3: The same gun will produce different markings on bullets and casings, and different guns can produce similar markings. Additionally, the type of ammunition actually used in a crime could differ from the type used when the gun was originally test-fired -- a difference that could lead to significant error in suggesting possible matches.1

Fact 4: The rifle used in the Martin Luther King assassination was test fired times under court supervision, and the results showed that no two bullets were marked alike. “Every test bullet was different because it was going over plating created by the previous bullet.”

Fact 5: "The common layman seems to believe that two bullets fired from the same weapon are identical, down to the very last striation placed on them by the weapon. The trained firearms examiner knows how far that is from reality."

Fact 6: Even weapons misclassified as “assault weapons” (common in the former Federal and California "assault weapons" confiscations) are used in less than 1% of all homicides.

Fact 7: Most “assault weapons” have no more firepower or killing capacity than the average hunting rifle and “play a small role in overall violent crime”.

Fact 8: Firearms that can be “readily converted” are already prohibited by law.

Fact9: Only 8% of criminals use anything that is classified (even incorrectly) as an "assault weapon", though less than 1% claimed to use these firearms when committing crimes.

Fact 10: Criminals are as likely to carry single shot (derringer-type) handguns as they are to carry "assault weapons".

assignment 8-3

I'm not sure if the post was correctly added but my question was "What would be the best way for the new Obama administration to support the disabled community (whether it's a new teaching method, more schools built just for disabled, or any other accommodations, etc.)?"

And the one thing that I did learn from this blog on disabilities was that there is a new way of "self monitoring" for the disabled that allows for essentially a better sense of independence for disabled persons.

Response to podcast or video pertaining to blog topic

The piece that I discovered was by a man named Alan Keyes and in the clip he basically described his feelings about gun freedom in the United States. He basically had the same stance as me, being that making more strict gun laws are not going to prevent criminal from attaining a gun. This situation leaves the law abiding citizens with no line of defense because the laws that some are trying to pass make it harder if not impossible for anyone to purchase a weapon for defense purposes. I would say that the one thing that I learned was that it was an incident a few years ago where a campus gunman was disarmed by two students. The catch was that these two student were law abiding citizens that happened to have their guns............now what would have happened if they were not allowed to carry? exactly