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

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I'm not to sure if making more strict laws going to affect the amount of crimes or even the amount of suicides....? I guess a similar situation that this idea can be compared to would have to be when the law raised the legal drinking age to 21. Now according to many people's theories this would lower accidents, but it actually cause a rise in casualties in several different predicaments. So I guess my question would be do you feel the the American people as a whole feel the same now about the gun issue as it pertains to a rise or decrease in deaths due to tighter gun laws?

November 5, 2008 3:39 PM"

Although I feel that its a little scary thinking about everybody being able to bring their guns to work, I still remain unwavering on my stance. Which is that everybody has the right to carry. Making guns harder to get will have the same affect as raising the drinking age, which was more accidents. In case anybody has been living in a bubble, making more strict laws to be able to carry a weapon will not discourage anybody who really wants one. All you have to do is turn on the ten o clock news to see that murders are committed with or without a proper license, period.

While searching over the law.com website I found an article that I'm not to sure how I feel about. The article had to do with employees in several states being able to bring firearms on to the companies parking lot. Now while this is in the powers of someone with a CCW I'm not sure if I want everybody having their guns at work. As far as intuition as it pertains to this subject matter, I feel that if an individual has their CCW then they should be able to carry their guns many places. But to think of all previous disgruntle employees that let their personal feelings out in the form of gun fire on employees and customers....well lets just say that the thought provokes chills because individuals loved ones deaths can be the results of such situations.