America’s Recent Gun Events.
* Six-year old shoots his teacher. The school was notified, hours before the shooting, that he might have a gun. His backpack was searched but no gun was found!
* Four-year old roams the lobby of an apartment building with a loaded gun.
* Teenage gangs engage in gun fights on the streets of crowded neighborhoods.
* People at dinner, asleep. watching TV, walking in the streets of their neighborhood, etc., are killed by stray bullets from gun fights in the streets.
* School classrooms, parades, concerts,religious services, sporting events, etc., are turned into killing fields because demented individuals have access to military, rapid-fire, assault weapons.
* College students have experienced their second school shooting massacre; one in elementary school, the second at college.
* Anyone can purchase a hand-gun or assualt weapon at a gun show, without a background check.
* What used to be routine social disputes become gun fights because access to guns is so easy.
* 3-D printed gun components can be bought and assembled by any individual, producing the untraceable “Ghost Gun”.
* America is the only industrialized country that has this gun control problem!
NO COMMON SENSE
ANALYZE THE EXAMPLE
* Which supports and barriers were in play?
* What were the dynamics?
* Who, or what, won the Tug-of-War?
* Discuss the outcome with your friends and family.
* Use Post #4 as a reference for the dynamics and the relationships between supports and barriers.
RESEARCH TIP…You can track the voting record of your Senator or Representative in Congress at:
www.govtrack.us/congress/votes
If you don’t like the way she/he voted, let them know!
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