Connecticut shooting

America went through yet another tragic even this week, and the hearts of the American people go out to the families involved in shooting. I always ask after a tragic even like this, why do the killers always have to take the lives of innocent people? If you hate your life than why destroy someone else? I think the reason these events keep happing is because of one, gun control and two the media. Although we all have the right to hear the facts and the awful story I believe the gunman or whoever commits this awful murder shouldn’t even get talked about. The people who are willing to kill so many innocent people are clearly messed up in the head. So when the next killer sees that everyone will know his name for committing such a violent crime it almost makes them feel like heroes. They want to world to recognize there name and face. The gun control aspect of this debate is simple, limit the use of guns. It is just awful that we haven’t learned our lesson the first times a killing has happened.

Abortion

Truthfully I don’t know where I stand on abortion. I understand that when we’re paying health insurance bills that a small portion goes to a clinic that not only treats abortion, but helps for many reasons, but I don’t know if my parents should be paying some amount of money for woman that made a mistake. I understand and 100% support some woman who decide to get rid of it especially the ones who were rapped, but there are some woman who did it to them self and some woman don’t learn lessons. Why should these people count on the hard working Americans to bail them out. Also there are plenty of people that want to adopt that can’t have a baby. When I heard that babies who are 20 weeks old can feel pain I persuaded me that abortion is wrong, but talking about it I agreed with many people when they said woman should have the right to do whatever they want with their body. I’m up in arms about this topic and look forward to talking about it.

Cheifs Killing

Recently the NFL was saddened when Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher fatally shot his girlfriend early Saturday morning, after killing his girlfriend he drove over to Arrowhead stadium and shot himself in front of his coach and general manager. Jovan Belcher went there to tell both his coach and general manager that he was very happy and thankful for what they did for him, he then proceed to kill himself in front of him. During the halftime of their game the news anchors began to talk about gun control. This is one awful story that supports my belief that gun control needs to be even stricter. It is easy for all of us to say that the gun control is strict enough, until one of your loved ones is killed. If someone who was close to me killed themself or got killed, because it was so easy for them to get a gun I would be outraged with the gun control. There needs to be stricter rules that will protect the people. Murders would drastically go down and would make everything better crime wise for America.

College Sports

Recently I watched a video on how college athletes and teams are treated more like businesses then student athletes. Within the last couple years many schools have made more revenue on college football than any other profit organizations in the entire school. Before 2000 the Oregon Ducks were only getting a couple thousand applications a year, ever since they won the Pac 12 championship in 2000 and reached a rose bowl berth there applications have reached an all-time high nearly doubling. This is making the school millions of dollars in revenue. Including their Nike sponsorship and the revenue they are making on television, tickets, appeal etc. The school is making million dollars off of the football team. This is the case for many schools in the country. Sports are a huge part of schools revenue, the purpose of the video I watched was about how student athletes feel like there being treated more as business men and woman then student athletes. I don’t agree with it but many people wanted the students to get paid, they thought that allowing the school to make millions of dollars off of their success is not fair, that they should see some of the profit. My argument was that for most of the student athletes their paying for your education and for most schools the revenue that the sport makes goes right back into the stadium or uniforms etc. So the athletes are seeing it spent on themselves just not directly to them.

Death Penalty

The death penalty is a very long well thought out plan that has many aspects that are made to protect the accused. In the pretrial the court makes sure that the jury is a fair well educated jury. The reason for the long process of determining the jury is because if the jury had a bias member or someone that had already pre-determined their decision someone’s life will be taken away. Another way the accused can get away with surviving is pleading insanity or a mental illness. If you were to kill someone and diagnosed with mental retardation the court would protect you from the death penalty. There are many ways the court will help provide the accused with a fair trial. I think that this long methodical plan is a very accurate way of protecting the rights of the accused. We could be much stricter than we already are, but these rights provide the wrong with some fair protection. There are five ways of using the death penalty they are hanging, firing squad, lethal injection, gas chamber and electrocution and in my eyes I find all of these ways more than fair. If you take someone’s life why your life shouldn’t be taken? I understand that in some cases there are some acceptations, but that’s up to the jury to decide. Also most of the killings are very brutal and gruesome the way that these criminals are put to death are quick and painless, so in my eyes they are having somewhat of a luxury. None of these are considered cruel and unusual punishment in my mind, but I can see how people can argue it. I think they get what they deserve. The state of Illinois and some surrounding states don't have the death penalty. Surprisingly California has the most amounts of inmates with 724. I was also surprised to hear that they had the most women with 19 inmates. There are by far more male inmates in the United States. In North Carolina in 2002, a new law allowed life without parole and because of this death sentences dropped by over 50% following the law.

The Next Four Years

With the election over most people have accepted that Obama has won the election. It makes me intrigued and excited where he will bring the country in his next term. As what I like to call myself a fair critic I don’t think president Obamas first term was a successful one. I thought that the bright side of the his four years was the assassination of Osama. And I wish that the highlight was him getting us out of debt. I don’t see or understand how his plans that have not changed very much will make his next term more successful. What will president Obama do to get us out of this huge debt? He didn’t bring us out but dug us further into debt, but I am not positive that Governor Romney’s plans would have gotten us out of debt. It is a very controversial topic that truly needs to adapt. I want to see a president that is willing to accept that the other party might have some good plans. The democratic and republican parties are great but together I believe we could create a great plan to get us into positive ways again.

Next Four Years

With the election nearing close tensions among family and friends tend to get high. Most people can’t help to let themselves go and debate which candidate they approve of. Whatever ends up happening the week leading up to election I always ask myself what the next election is going to be like. I know we have plenty of worries to worry about but I always begin to wonder, what will happen? If president wins the election and we don’t see much progress like his last term than will the next president be a republican? If president Obama turns the economy around, will a under qualified democrat become president, because of his success? And if Governor Romney wins will his term be a success? Will he help the republican party retain office for years to come? All of these questions are impossible to answer in my mind. You won’t be able to determine this until the next four years are up.