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Guns In America Flashcards

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2017 shot dead

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13 158 people

1 death every 30 minutes

As many victims as deaths on road

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Weapons

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Almost as many as inhabitants

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Gun dealerships

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65,000

More than supermarket, macdo and Starbucks put together

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American constitution

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1791

Grants the right for American citizen to own weapons

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California’s legislation

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Strict
Quota for weapons and ammunitions
Checking of client’s criminal record

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Texas’ legislation

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Lax

Citizens can own weapons of war

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Nevada

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Permissive

They can own assault rifle

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Lobby group

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NRA

National rifle association

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Adherents NRA

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4,5M

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Political interference

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Reward political nominees with funds : trump

Or punish them with bashing campaigns : Clinton

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Reform attempt

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Initiative de réforme

Gun control act 1968: regulate guns trade

2011-2016: 100 laws suggestif to the Congress, none voted

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Recent significant events

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Orlando 2016:50 victims

Mandala Bay, Las Vegas

Sutherland springs church

High school in parkland

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The AR-15

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5M in America

Presented as the perfect weapon to protect ones house

100 shots in less than 1 minutes

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Lobbying

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Practice of influencing legislators into voting a favour of or against a bill

Pressure group = special-interest group

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The first amendment to the constitution

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Gives lobbyists some kind of legal status and make their progression an accepted political activity

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USA

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thousands of lobbying groups : acting at a local a state level , federal level

Various categories represented

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As they are

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Far better paid and have almost unlimited funding, their influence on the writing of bills is huge

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The number of lobbyists

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Exceed that of members of congress

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Many state or fedora laws regulate such activities

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The 1946 regulations of lobbying act

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Opponent

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Often complain that congressmen appear to be acting in the interests of those who fund them

–> giving the rise to talk of political corruption

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The cost of political campaigns

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Is such that politicians sometimes find themselves in compromising positions because of their need to solicit financial contributions

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Soles states and cities

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Have started to use “Clean election” = programs for public financing of campaigns

Give any candidate a fixed amount of money and banning them from accepting any outside donation

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Clean election procedure in place in

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Arizona
Maine since 2000

Connecticut in 2005 states

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Several foreign countries

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Make sur of some of the most prominent lobbying firms in order to improve their relationship with Washington

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Example of hug investments in lobbying

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Congo is reported to have spent 1,5M$ in the fist half of 2009

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Main danger of all this lobbying

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The development of a serious imbalance between the possibilities of repressive or dictatorial states which can spend huge amounts of money to make the right connections

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Surveiller

Suivre de près

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To monitor

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Satisfaire qqchose

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Cater to something

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Déposer un dossier

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To file

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Esquiver contourner

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To skirt

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Divulgation

Revelation

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Disclosure

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Sain

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Wholesome

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FAIRE campagne pour la

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To push for sthg

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Obligatoire

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Mandatory

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Prétendue corruption

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Alleged corruption

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Un ensemble de loi

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An array of laws

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Défenseur engagé

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A committed advocate

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Élaborer

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Draft

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Être mêlé à

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To be embroiled in

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Mettre en valeur

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Enhance

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Qqun de neutres

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Fence sitter

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Corruption

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Graft

Bribery

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Marge de manœuvre

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Leeway

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EN attente

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Pending

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Rester au courant de qqchose

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To keep abreast of

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gun control means

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  • attemps to limit the 2nd Amendment : such as putting gun-owners on a register, imposing a mini age to bear arms + background checks for people’s health records
47
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the 2nd Amendment

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was written for a specific time and context

there was no national army or police force at the time

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lanceur d’alerte

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whistleblower

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whistleblower

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Michael Moore’s film “Bowling for Columbine” demonstrates just how easy it is to obtain a firearm in the US

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Moore puts the problem down to

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successive governments creating a climate of fear which makes people nervous and irrational

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Amercia has always

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had a common enemy, a bogeyman figure, be it the SU, Iran in the 80s or Al Quaeeda at the turno of the century

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since 2014 more laws

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have been passed in individual states facilitating access to fireamrs rather than restrcting it

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NRA slogan

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“Guns don’t kill people, people do” is far more influent than its anti-gun opponent the Brady Campaign

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the NRA’s logic is that

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the more madmen kill people using guns, the more necessary it becomes for people to buy guns in roder to protect themsleves

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in 2013

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2 year old Caroline Sparks was filled by her five year-old-brother and his Christmas present: “my first rifle”

56
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“my first rifel”

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a gun with real bullets aimed at five to ten year olds

57
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in 2016 Chicago

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saw its biggest spike in homicides in 60 year

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