... of the violent death of an unarmed teenager at the hands of a government officer). It is, after all, a bit shocking to see military grade assault rifles, mine resistant ambush protected vehicles (MRAPs), high-powered sniper rifles aimed at U.S. citizens, who are engaged in constitutionally protected protest in their own neighborhoods. It is important to first be very clear about the equipment being ... in rational, constitutionally protected protest against a perceived injustice, the MRAP instead simply heightens community members' feeling that their neighborhood is being invaded. So wh...

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... for most juveniles and are involved in more than half of all juvenile firearm offenses. Most juvenile firearm offenses are committed with handguns, with only 18 percent involving shotguns or rifles. In the state of Virginia you must be 21 years or older to purchase a handgun and 18 years or older to purchase a rifle or shotgun. Also you can purchase however ... many shotguns or rifles you want in a day, while only purchasing one handgun every 30 days. As is the case with most offender populations, among juvenile offenders a small number of serious, violent, and chronic ... ...

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... is also present within other poems by Owen, such as Anthem for Doomed Youth, where alliteration is cleverly integrated within the poem, coalesced with powerful adjectives and onomatopoeic language ("stuttering rifles rapid rattle"). Also within the first verse of Dulce is an emotive graphic description with elongated vowel sounds ("sludge trudge") to accentuate the tortuously slow nature of their progress across ... is much less of a visual poem and this is all to do with Owen's subtle use of loud words, full of noise and bulk such as "monstrous anger" or "stuttering rifles rapid rattle...

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... the ban for guns in our community, what is? The gun buy-back in 1997, following the Port Arthur massacre was high successful. 643,726 semi-automatic rifles, machine guns and millions of other rifles where taken out of our community. The results showed success, homicides fell by 10% and the proportion of armed robbers using firearms fell by 37%. There is ... ...

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... Safety; and the third, for Reputation. The first use Violence, to make themselves Masters of other mens persons, wives, children, and cattell; the second, to defend them; the third, for trifles, as a word, a smile, a different opinion, and any other signe of undervalue, either direct in their Persons, or by reflexion in their Kindred, their Friends, their Nation, their Profession, or their ... ...

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... possess materialistic implications. With reference to Egeuses accusations against Lysander in which Lysander supposedly has "stol'n the impression of [Hermia's] fantasy with bracelets of thy hair, rings, gawds, conceits, knacks, trifles, nosegays, sweetmeats - messengers of strong prevailment in unhardened youth"; it seems Egeus has a fetish for materialism; he does not see these gifts as love tokens as does Hermia but merely ... ...

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... targeting the racial prejudices of the town. The central symbol of the novel, the mockingbird, further develops the theme of racial prejudice. For Christmas, Scout and Jem are given air rifles by their father, who warns that, although he considers it fair to shoot other birds, he views it a "sin to kill a mockingbird" because they "don't do one ... ...

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... a poorly trained and equipped army causing high casualties and loss of land. Russian soldiers suffered because of the Tsar's poor decision making and financial planning as soldiers had only 2/3 the rifles needed and lacked adequate clothing. This colossal loss of men caused living standards to rapidly submerge due to the disrupted food production in villages and decrease in industrial workers, leaving ... ...

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... and mining endeavors. Having a strong labor force was essential to the economic future of the Americas and Europe, and Africans, dominated by the numbers of white men brandishing horses and rifles, were an easy target for enslavement. The Atlantic Slave Trade benefited the Europeans, the slave traders, and the American colonists. The Europeans wanted cotton, tobacco, rum, molasses, and sugar from ... ...

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... to the shooting was the gun which was used for the shooting. The ancient, bolt-action Mannlicher-Carcano, represents the opposite of what any sniper would carry. One handbook on rifles has called it "an odd choice" for an assassination, since it "has no great reputation for accuracy." (Hurt, 100) Mechanix Illustrated, dismissed this rifle as being, "crudely made, poorly designed ... ...

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... , a well-known abolitionist. After two days, the raid ended with the Border Ruffians in control after their triumph. When John Brown heard about this, he rallied his company, the Pottawatomie Rifles, which was made up of about forty men. They left on May 22nd for the thirty-five mile ride to Lawrence, and were met partway with news that Lawrence had ... ...

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... , a well-known abolitionist. After two days, the raid ended with the Border Ruffians in control after their triumph. When John Brown heard about this, he rallied his company, the Pottawatomie Rifles, which was made up of about forty men. They left on May 22nd for the thirty-five mile ride to Lawrence, and were met partway with news that Lawrence had ... ...

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... by the RCMP and the military on the Japanese Canadians tended to focus on investigation of alleged "unlawful drilling [with weapons]" by male Japanese Canadians, reports of caches of Japanese rifles and ammunition, and accounts of suspicious fishing parties of well-dressed Japanese who did not appear to be fishermen. Rumors, plain and fanciful. (Granastein and Johnson 105) It was easy ... ...

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... to the shooting was the gun which was used for the shooting. The ancient, bolt-action Mannlicher-Carcano, represents the opposite of what any sniper would carry. One handbook on rifles has called it "an odd choice" for an assassination, since it "has no great reputation for accuracy." (Hurt, 100) Mechanix Illustrated, dismissed this rifle as being, "crudely made, poorly designed ... ...

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... the English East India Company felt that the British rule often failed to respect their traditions of religion and caste. When rumors started circulating that the cartridges in their new rifles contained cow and pig fat, the natives became furious. The local Indians thought they were being polluted because a cow was a holy animal and a pig was a very dirty animal. When 85 ... ...

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... rising was set: Easter Sunday, 23 April 1916. Without Eoin MacNeill's sanctioning, the Irish Volunteers began training alongside the Irish Citizens" Army and were anxiously awaiting a shipment of 20 000 rifles set to arrive on a German ship called the Aud, which was subsequently intercepted and sunk by the Royal Navy. Only a few days out from the rebellion, the IRB sub-committee ... ...

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... in the US during the war) - Farmers grew enough crops to feed the US and all its Allies - planes, bombers, tanks, scout cars and carriers, armored cars, trucks, light vehicles, rifles and side-arms, machine guns, artillery and ammo were produced in factories - production during the war was 75% greater than in peacetime - US financed the war by taxes and war ... ...

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... them trying to see what was happening up front. In an attempt to disperse the protest and teach the crowd a lesson, the police began firing into the crowd with revolvers, rifles, and mounted machine guns on Saracen armored cars. "I do not know how many people were shot. It all started when hordes of natives surrounded the police station. If they do ... ...

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