Response to Brandon (Politics of New and Now)

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I agree with Brandon’s topic that enabling a student body with an ease to access firearms would result in more shootings due to the fact that people are not always rational of their emotions and acts.
The Gun Control issue is second in the Big Three issues in terms of viewer interest, behind Abortion and ahead of Education. The incident that happened in Virginia Tech shows big time that gun ownership should be limited to the point where people don’t have to worry about their safety at all!
It is understandable that hunters want to be able to have guns for hunting. For that matter there should be a “gun hunting leasing system” during hunting seasons, created for safety purposes. For example: people come – lease a gun for the day when they are hunting and return it at the end of the day.
For those people who want to own a gun at home in order to protect themselves and their family from criminals, robbers, etc. each and every gun should be kept at home only (with a previous background check of an owner and household of course). Also there should be a similar to a GPS system device installed permanently on the gun, just in case the owner wants to take the gun out of his or her house, the police department would be notified of that.
I personally think that guns are very dangerous and very unnecessary, and of course safety comes first, so the possession of firearms law should be restricted in order for people to feel safe and protected in public places.

Privacy

Since we have been talking about this today in class I want to give my piece of opinion about the topic.
The right to privacy is threatened as never before in modern history by the policies of the Bush white house and the Ashcroft justice department.
Some people may say: “I don’t have nothing to hide, let them watch me.” Might as well put a camera in their bathrooms. Let them watch! Some might say: “Find it in the Constitution, then I will be against warrant less wiretapping." But the thing is that there were no phones and internet back in 1776 so it could not have been written.
A big political issue because of the "Patriot's Act". I understand the need to protect our country, but why is the government seizing library records without warrants? I don't think that anyone cares about cameras set up in the city or the streets (except for the local criminals), just as long as they keep it out of my house. Ashcroft's "Patriot Act" is pretty argumentative. Every person must have a right for privacy, and shouldn’t be watched or wiretapped without a judge giving a permission for that. It is understandable why government does not want to this the legal way. If they needed a warrant for every person they want to watch, it would be too much work that has to be done to track every suspect the legal way. With all the hyperbole that's being thrown around, it wouldn't surprise me if political dissidents or 15 year old, who downloaded the new Eminem song, were considered "terrorists" and affected by this bill. Ben Franklin once said, "They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security" . The way I personally look at the issue if you don't actually have control over your possessions, yourself, and what you do, you don't own your life.

Response to Derek ( National Government 101)

I almost entirely support Derek’s opinion about the war in Iraq and what we should do. I support it because I have the same beliefs and thoughts about it. Of course it was never a good idea for Bush to send our troops to Iraq in the first place, but since, like Derek said: 4000 soldiers lost their lives “to help try to give the people of Iraq a better life”. Very generous, BUT what about mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, wives and kids who lost their family members to the war? What about those people going through pain of loosing their loved ones to this war, and now almost the whole Nation is against it. What about them? I don’t think that Bush considered that as much as he should have.
I strongly agree with Obama's plan to pull our troops out of Iraq. Derek thinks that since so many soldiers lost their lives to this war then we should stay and finish what we started. I really think that we shouldn’t . I am not an American, I came from Ukraine, but I love this country and I care about it and it’s people. Like I said before – we lost TOO many lives, and we shouldn’t loose any more!