Gun Regulations

In the article" Do we have courage to stop this?" by Nicholas d. Kristof, he argues the idea about regulating guns. The predominant reason kids are dying in massacres like the most recent one is not that they have lunatics or criminals- all countries have them- but we suffer from a political failure to regulate guns. The United States isn't going to ban guns , but they can take steps to reduce carnage.

There are better regulation for ladders , even toy guns require orange tips, but the law makers don't have courage to stand up to National rifle Association and regulate guns carefully. It wouldn't be easy to eliminate gun deaths, but reducing gun deaths by one- third, can save 1,000 lives annually.

 More Americans die in gun homicide and suicides in six months that have died in last 25 years in terrorist attack and the wars in Afganistan and Iraq combined. A starting point would be to limit guns to one a month. Make serial numbers more difficult to erase would help also. The murder rate in Australia, after passing the national fire arms agreement dropped by 40% and the suicide rate has drop by more then half. Treating guns seriously can save the life of many.

In States you have to be 18-21 to purchase a gun, but 21 to drink. Which is more dangerous? Even though guns can protect they can harm more. If they fall into the wrong hands they can do horrible things. People with cleans records kill also.

Are people taking this serious ? How may massacres do we need to have to regulate guns carefully? I know this isn't easy but we need a starting point and a ending point.

Marijuana

In the article " marijuana law just creates criminal" by Hakkem Jefferies, Cnn approach the topic about more than 5,ooo people in 2011 were arrested in New York city for possessing small amounts of marijuana. Majority of whom were African americans and Latinos. New York City spends $75 millon every year arresting people for marijuana possession.

The state decriminalized this offense more then 30 years ago.Private prossession of less then 25 grams of marijuana, a voliation punishableby $100 fine. With more then 400,000 arrest for small quanties of marijuana skyrocketed.

Often the police approach young people- majority of those who live in communities of color- stop them and frisk under the 'stop and frisk' poilicy. Thousands of prople are arrested, charged with a misdemanor, punshiable upto three months and jail. A fine of $300 fine.

This is fundamentally unfair. May view as a classic entrapment. Majority happens in neighborhoods were 55% of the people are black and latino. Yet the study constistently show that younger and fluent whites use marijuana in equal if not greater numbers.

Alot of people smoke marijauna and possess small amounts. So that means wasting countleess money on over half of america. Even ploiticians and police man did it when they were young so why not arrest them too. They are spending all this money on little amonuts of people when they are over stuffing jails with petty drug dealers. There are people out there killing, sexual saidts, rapists, and etc.

In the article " From Horror to Hope: Boy's miracle recovery froma brutal attack " by Saeefour Ahmed wrote a story about a little boy - who name is witheld- survives a brutal attack.

In Bangledesh, four men had surrounded the 7-year-old boy, bound his hands and feet and cracked open his head with a brick. They held him down and took a switchblade to his throat. They sliced his chest and belly in an upside down cross.

And in a final brutal act, they hacked him sideways, chopping off his penis and his right testicle.   "It's amazing that he lived," a doctor said after working on this 7 year old boy. "I'm really surprised he didn't bleed to death prior to getting to the hospital."

Okkhoy says he set off for home when a group of neighborhood men grabbed him and pulled him into an alley."They tied me up and told me they'd force me to beg," he says. "I told them, 'I know each and every one of you. And I'm going to tell my father.'"

That's when one of the men grabbed a brick and struck him across the head, he says.

The attackers left Okkhoy by the side of a warehouse, intending to come back later and dump him in the river.

Okkhoy's case would have gone unnoticed were it not for his father's chance meeting with a human rights lawyer, Alena Khan.

When Abed went to the police to report the attack, he was told a case was already in the books.Someone who identified himself as the boy's uncle had told police that Okkhoy was assaulted by two boys in a playground spat that turned ugly

."Two little boys are capable of such brutality? And you believe that?" the incredulous father asked.
"Yes, now let us do our job," he was told and dismissed.

This is horrible. When we think our country is bad others countries are doing far worst.

Why aren’t the cops taking it seriously and not doing a back ground check on the so called uncle. what would it take to make this more serious. Children are getting the bad end of the stick.