Shotgun

With just the twenty-four news cycle feeding us information, it would not be surprising if you thought that the very foundations of society were crumbling around us due to the amount of violence and death reported on a daily basis. However, in actuality, the number of crimes committed in the United States is dropping and, despite what some politicians and media pundits would have you believe, the world is a safer place than it was fifty, sixty years ago. With this fact in mind some crime…

something that has pretty well gone out of style for most of the world. Hunting is a legal sport regulated by laws that vary from state to state(Warhol). Many states will allow you to hunt with a rifle which allows for longer shots. Some will only allow shotguns meaning you will have to use different ammunation and what ever game you are hunting it will have to get much closer. In some cases this causes hunters to do illegal things to bait the animals in closer. Many good hunters will report…

the men feel like he has more dominance over anyone else on the ranch and doesn’t want any of the men to get what he has. In the story, Steinbeck displays how awful of a person Curley really is when he says, “ I’m gonna get him. I’m going for my shotgun. I’ll kill the big son-of-a-bi*ch myself. I’ll shoot ‘im in the guts. Come on, you guys.” He ran furiously out of the barn.” (Steinbeck 96) This just shows that Curley was stirring up more anger at the fact Lennie took what was once his because…

In Cold Blood Timed Essay In the novel, In Cold Blood,by Truman Capote, an intense murder story unfolds through the perspective of both the victims and murderers. One of the murderers, Perry Smith, seems to hold in more than what one man can handle, which leads to the murders of the Clutter family: Nancy, Bonnie, Herb and Kenyon. Although Perry Smith’s action seems evil or immoral if taken at face value, Capote’s full presentation of his past circumstances and psychiatric analysis makes the…

In the book “Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment” all of the main protagonist express their importance of family throughout the entire book. Max, Fang, Iggy, Gasman, Nudge and Angel, also referred to as “The Flock”, are mutated children that has never experienced what having a family is like. Everyone has their definition on family, but their definition usually means blood relatives. For the flock it is who they trust and who they love even if they are not of the same blood. Courage is also a…

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The Second Amendment states that the government cannot take away your firearms because you have the right to own them and the government cannot take that right away from you. The Second Amendment gives citizens the right to have firearms for any appropriate purpose. You can use firearms for self-protection, recreation, competition, hunting, or collecting. Most Americans believe that the Second Amendment protects their individual rights. There are many reasons that our Founding Fathers wrote…

“The hand shook violently, but his face set and his hand steadied. He pulled the trigger.” In the book Of Mice and Men written by John Steinbeck, George and Lennie travel from job to job hoping one day to have a place of their own. Lennie makes it difficult to keep a job since he always gets in trouble. George has to decide, whether he should kill Lennie. George did the right thing by killing Lennie because, locking Lennie up wouldn’t have been better, he put Lennie in a better place, and Curley…

him, if Lennie was put into a mental institution, and the fact that Lennie was a threat to everyone around him. Had George not shot Lennie, Curley wouldn't have let him slip away as easily. When Curley said “I'm gonna get him. I'm going for my shotgun. I'll kill the big son-of-a-bitch myself. I'll shoot ‘im in the guts. Come on, you guys.”(pg. 96) he meant it. Lennie would have endured a painful death if Curley had control of what would happen next. It can take up to 15 minutes to bleed to…

Around 16,459 people were murdered in 2016, and roughly 73% were killed using a firearm of some kind. If there were stricter laws around firearms (noun) it is likely that most of these deaths could have been prevented. However there are many arguments against these beliefs from needing a firearm for self defense and hunting, or saying that innocent people should not be punished for the actions of others, and even if gun laws change it is only going to affect law abiding citizens. It is…