Public Smoking Ban Across the United States early 60 college campuses around the United States have smoke-free policies that affect the entire campus. Recently Chicago‚ Illinois passed the Clean Indoor Air Act‚ an important step towards smoke-free bars and restaurants. These recent actions post the question for the University of Iowa. The Iowa campus has around 30 bars near the downtown area. Would a smoking ban for the cities bars be good for the city or the campus? A public smoking ban on Iowa City
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Assault Weapons Ban (AWB) A November 2012 Congressional Research Service report found that‚ as of 2009‚ there were approximately 310 million firearms in the United States‚ 110 million being rifles. (Peters) So what exactly makes a rifle an assault rifle or assault gun magazine? An Assault Weapon is most commonly defined as a semi automatic firearm possessing certain cosmetic features. Most assault rifles such as an AR-15 fires a 5.56mm round. The bullet tends not to penetrate walls in close quarters
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Ban On Assault Weapons & High Capacity Magazines By: Ashlee Holt What is a high capacity magazine exactly? It is any magazine for a semi-automatic weapon that can hold more than 10 bullets. Pennsylvania voters want stricter laws on guns‚ including background checks on all purchases and bans on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. Democrats controlled both the House and Senate‚ and the nation’s crime rate was a major concern. The assault weapons ban was part of an extensive crime
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legislation has sparked many issues with the American people that abide by the laws in the way they use and buy their guns. Americans and representatives that are pro-gun are against the legislation to ban semi-automatic weapons. Within the past month senate Democrats have removed the plan to ban assault weapons from the pending gun- control legislation. This is to focus more on the politically acceptable use of universal background checks. These universal background checks would be enforced to
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Rifle Bans‚” starts off by listing out his reasons on why the assault rifle ban should not pass. The author’s main focus of the article was to dispel the illogical reasoning the government has been stating about assault rifles and large capacity magazines. Any citizen who supports the use of assault rifles can concur with the arguments that author has stated. The author takes multiple approaches to counter argue the reasoning behind the assault weapon ban. One of the reasons for the ban was that
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This is a fire hazard and can easily start a fire which poses another threat to public safety. Being that the National Mall is a huge tourist attraction‚ it should maintain its beauty. From a smoker’s standpoint‚ it would be unfair to completely ban smoking on the National Mall. We too pay taxes and contribute towards the cleanup. Also‚
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Opinionated Paper #1 Should Louisiana Government be allowed to ban smoking in public places? If smoking is allowed in public places then the freedom of the non smoker is taken away. If we don’t allow smoking in public places then the smoker’s freedom is then restricted. Therefore banning smoking is a decision between the health of a whole nation versus the freedom of a minority. Which is more important? The millions of people that die from second hand smoke or the smoker who always has that
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of marine animals are dieing because of confusing plastic bags with food”. (Environment CA). Plastic bags are also bad for the environment because they are not 100% decomposable. Distributors and investors say that the ban began because plastic bags where such a success. (Bag the Ban) Plastic bags are killing mother earth. They are nothing but unusable toxic material. Thousand of bags are leaving the city and heading into oceans and killing thousands of marine wild life. Americans through
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danger‚ but sometimes they don’t realize that they themselves are the danger. There’s parents that go psycho when they see their children reading BOOKS that involve sex‚drugs‚alcohol‚ or other delicate subjects‚ so then there they go and challenge or ban it! There’s also the question that goes with it‚ why did you just do that?? Parents often think that they are protecting their children‚on the contrary‚ they’re harming them because those children need knowledge of what life is. It’s never too early
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Brandie Torres Von Behren International Politics 7 October 2013 Should the United States Ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty? Nuclear weapons are a touchy topic nowadays‚ especially with more and more countries around the world engaging in war or finding the means of developing such objects. Being one of few countries with this power has caused a riff in the general opinion of what to do when faced with Since the first nuclear tests in 1945 up until the last American ones in 1992 there
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