How We Fix US

     Gun control is a very big issue in the United States. There have been multiple killing sprees and a lot of mass shootings in Americas past and present. Most recently there have been two heinous events that touch on this topic of gun control. One is the murder of Trayvon Martin.

 Trayvon Martin was killed because a man named George Zimmerman thought he could get away with murdering a 17-year old black male under the law. Sad to say he was successful in doing so. Another horrible event that had happen was the Sandy hook massacre.

 A 20-year old man having some anger issues at home killed his own mother. He continue going on a spree of killings in the Sandy Hook Elementary school. He shot and killed the principle, psychologist, and four other teachers as they try to stop him. He slaughtered 20 first grader students with semiautomatic rifle and two hand guns. He fired 3 to 11 bullets per student. He then took his own life. I believe that these horrible acts could have been prevented if social behavior was taken more seriously as a nation.

     Republicans believe guns are what keep us safe and Democrats believe that we as a country won’t be safe until we have better gun control laws. It has been known in most mass shooting cases the killers use guns that were obtain legally for example the Columbine High School massacre. The guns used by the gun men were 9-mm semi-automatic hand gun, carbine rifle, sawed-off pump-acton and double barrel shotgun

. There was a ban in Australia on all semiautomatic guns and it also requires purchaser to register all weapons under name. this ban gave a 59% dropped in gun related deaths. “This is not Australia, this is America, where our Supreme Court has upheld an individual right to bear arms” said by Nick Gillespie(editor of Reason.com and Reason.tv).       

     I personally believe there both wrong in a way. Guns are dangerous, but so is any other tool we use day to day. For example hammers are great for building, but can also bludgeon someone in the head to death. A box cutter is best when opening packages, but it can be used to slice someone’s throat. The internet is a great way to connect with the world, but the internet has also been the playground for cyber bullies which have cause the suicide of people like Megan Meier. 

In the end they are only as deadly as who is using them. That’s why instead of solely focusing on gun control we should focus on our socially skills and not just ways of getting by, but on how we survive as one nation. We have to kill the hate we have because someone is different in race, sex, and/or  sexually preference. We have to be able to get along with all and I don’t mean best friends just friendly.

 We also have to work on how home life is managed with families. This includes parents being better parents, children being better sons and daughters, siblings being better brothers and sisters. 

Its ok to disagree but hate has to die in order to prevent crimes like these.          

the solution to our engery crisis

      In the middle ages someone discovered that coal was better than wood for fire.

 To get coal you must dig for it which is hard if the tunnels you dig keeps flooding. This situation solution was the steam engine. The steam engine was the beginning of the first industrial revolution. After this revolution we had other inventions powered by coal.

 This made things a lot easier, but it also started us destroying earth. We have grown so dependent on that we've build our world around it. It’s given us ways for transportation and to harness electricity which now a days everything uses electricity.

 It nearly impossible for us to give even though it destroys are planet, but if we find another power source or a way to manage the source we have better than there’s a chance for earth.

     When bush was president we had a war with Iraq and many at first believed this war was over the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001. The truth is George W. Bush had his own motives and I personally believe it was for oil. Oil is a valuable trade as money its self in America and money is power. Republicans won’t let power slip out of their hands if they don’t have to. While George W. Bush was president he wanted to lift ban on offshore oil drilling that stood since his father was president was president. Things like off shore drilling causes oil spills.

     I believe that the energy crisis can be solved, but time is needed and the need of power has to be set aside. “Living in natures budget” (  http://www.youtube.com/user/ZMisrael?feature=watch , 300 Years of Fossil Fuels in 300 seconds) is the key to using coal without destroying earth, but it won’t help expand the economy. We will have to find other ways in doing so. This is what is needed to be done and not fracking.

If your drinking tap water at this moment I would advise you to dump it back in the sink now!

 Water mixed with sand and chemicals is injected in the ground at high pressures to fracture shale rocks to release natural gas. This sounds smart and it’s an alternative to digging up oil offshore, but there is a problem with this method. One gas well needs 400 tanker trucks to carry the water which holds around 8 million gallons. That’s a lot of countries without enough clean water to supply it's people and there are no trucks to try to help them,

 but that’s not even the worst part. The water is mixed with sand and around 40,000 gallons of chemicals and still that’s not the worst part. The chemicals that are used are lead, uranium, mercury, ethylene, radium, methanol, hydrochloric acid, and formaldehyde (www.dangersoffracking.com ). 

That’s only some of the chemicals used and those eight are extremely dangerous to the human body. These chemicals are being pumped near are water supply. Even though it’s being pumped through a tube these chemicals leak out in to our drinking water supply. We have two choices use what nature gives us when it gives us instead of digging up the earth

 or be the cause of destroying earth.

 One other possibility will be to find a source of energy, but that will be the more difficult choice.                  

Are we recovering from 9/11?

     On September 9, 11 four planes were hijacked from the United States Airports by terrorist. 10 years Prior bush declared war on Iraq. Al-Qaeda operatives retaliated. They wanted to send a message to the U.S. and the president of the U.S. at the time George Bush. Flights eleven and one seventy-five hit the world trade center. Flight seventy-seven struck the pentagon in Washington DC. Next flight ninety-three crashed in a Pennsylvania field. This attack changed America forever.

    

     I believe declaring war in the same month as 9/11 was not the appropriate time. I think it would've been best for bush to let the country grieve by building memorials. After the country has had some time to morn for their loss then the U.S. should have talk with the United Nations. Talk about what would be the best way to deal with this terrorist threat. Bush believed 9/11 as an opportunity to have reason to attack Iraq. George W. Bush had an agenda to attack Iraq before 9/11.

  The question to “Are we safer” is no. We were attack on the day’s date that is the same as our emergency hot line! Then not to have full confidence in the government that protects us because they have a personal agenda doesn't make me feel safer. I don’t feel as we are winning the war on terror because it requires us to give more freedoms to the government. We have to be searched nearly naked by the airports which at times can be demeaning if it’s in front of our families.

 The government can listen to personal phone calls if they believe it’s necessary.

 I know these are sacrifices for protecting love ones and because of that I feel we are doing what’s best against these terrorist but this isn't “Winning”.