... 1,000,000 law - abiding citizens use guns for self - defense annually. Guns also provide vulnerable women with some form of protection against rape and other violent crime. Recently, Orlando, Florida saw an increase in the number of rapes over a twelve - month period from 12.8 per ... set up a program to train women to use handguns. Over three thousand women armed themselves and took training courses. As a result, Orlando's rape figure dropped to 4.1 per 100,000 - a 90 percent drop from the previous high. Similar programs in Detroit and Highland Park, Michigan, and ... Montgomery, Alab...

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... 1,000,000 law - abiding citizens use guns for self - defense annually. Guns also provide vulnerable women with some form of protection against rape and other violent crime. Recently, Orlando, Florida saw an increase in the number of rapes over a twelve - month period from 12.8 per ... set up a program to train women to use handguns. Over three thousand women armed themselves and took training courses. As a result, Orlando's rape figure dropped to 4.1 per 100,000 - a 90 percent drop from the previous high. Similar programs in Detroit and Highland Park, Michigan, and ... Montgomery, Alab...

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... mentioned above have presented, but I also believe that the brain of a child that could function "well" enough to commit such violent crimes as rape, murder, and many other cases that we hear about single day, could also see the end of it. Even if they don't understand the ... designed in 1940's, when "serious" offenses included truancy, curfew violations and fistfights", while nowadays, the law has to deal with gang-related crimes, murders, rape cases, and many other violent offenses (Wilson 1). There is also a terrifying record Wilson presented which shows that "During 1990's murder was...

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... among the juvenile offenses which could be punishable by 25-to-life sentences are the obvious ones, some may be considered borderline: "murder, kidnapping, rape, assault, even discharge if a firearm into an inhabited or occupied building, carjacking, escape from a juvenile detention center, even selling as little as ... to use discretion, depending on the perpetrator. So, for whom are these three-strikes "social experiments" really aimed at? In California, whose prison system (like most prisons throughout the nation) consists mainly of minorities, there has to be a better means of experi...

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Capital punishment, "the death sentence" is the execution of criminals by the state for committing monstrous crimes such as rape and murder. The debates over the intrinsic worth of the death sentence has continued for quite awhile, and is an extremely uncertain and complicated concern. Society must stay secure by ... persons life. But, why does the killer get to keep their most precious from God and take another person's away. Every year cold blooded killers are sentenced to life in prison, which is not fair when they sentenced their victim to death. The problem in America today is that we a...

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