intriguing to me is gun control. In the UK, as I had heard, the police do not carry guns and there is a ban on private ownership of handguns. I have always believed that the United States should ban private ownership of handguns, or at least, make it harder to purchase a weapon and ammo by placing more restrictions and background checks on the purchaser. Because of the inquiry project, I have been researching gun politics here in the UK and have come across some very interesting laws and statistics on guns. In England, after the Dunblane massacre in 1997, Parliament passed the Firearms Act, which placed a ban on private ownership of firearms. Also, I found the process of licensing by which English citizens had to go about in order to buy a firearm before the ban. I'm not going to go into much detail here because I will be making a digital story on the subject, but the police were highly involved in the process. For example, police officers were required to go to the potential gun owner's home to inspect where the gun would be stored!! This is almost unthinkable in the US. I really like what the UK had in place for gun control, but I wonder if it would be as successful in the US. Our culture is so different and Americans value individual freedoms, such as the right to bear arms, so it would have to be greatly adapted for something like that to even be considered in the US. I am really excited to find out more about this topic and hopefully interview a few police officers in the process!
Thursday, 3 July 2008
Brainstorming
Since it is more than halfway through the first week of study abroad here in Plymouth, I am really starting to think more in depth about Inquiry Project #1. This project requires that we take a cultural assumption that we had about England before we arrived and to delve deeper into the assumption and see if it is true/false and why it might be true/false in regards to English culture. I like to think of myself as concerned with the issues at hand in the United States today, and one of the issues that is most 
intriguing to me is gun control. In the UK, as I had heard, the police do not carry guns and there is a ban on private ownership of handguns. I have always believed that the United States should ban private ownership of handguns, or at least, make it harder to purchase a weapon and ammo by placing more restrictions and background checks on the purchaser. Because of the inquiry project, I have been researching gun politics here in the UK and have come across some very interesting laws and statistics on guns. In England, after the Dunblane massacre in 1997, Parliament passed the Firearms Act, which placed a ban on private ownership of firearms. Also, I found the process of licensing by which English citizens had to go about in order to buy a firearm before the ban. I'm not going to go into much detail here because I will be making a digital story on the subject, but the police were highly involved in the process. For example, police officers were required to go to the potential gun owner's home to inspect where the gun would be stored!! This is almost unthinkable in the US. I really like what the UK had in place for gun control, but I wonder if it would be as successful in the US. Our culture is so different and Americans value individual freedoms, such as the right to bear arms, so it would have to be greatly adapted for something like that to even be considered in the US. I am really excited to find out more about this topic and hopefully interview a few police officers in the process!
intriguing to me is gun control. In the UK, as I had heard, the police do not carry guns and there is a ban on private ownership of handguns. I have always believed that the United States should ban private ownership of handguns, or at least, make it harder to purchase a weapon and ammo by placing more restrictions and background checks on the purchaser. Because of the inquiry project, I have been researching gun politics here in the UK and have come across some very interesting laws and statistics on guns. In England, after the Dunblane massacre in 1997, Parliament passed the Firearms Act, which placed a ban on private ownership of firearms. Also, I found the process of licensing by which English citizens had to go about in order to buy a firearm before the ban. I'm not going to go into much detail here because I will be making a digital story on the subject, but the police were highly involved in the process. For example, police officers were required to go to the potential gun owner's home to inspect where the gun would be stored!! This is almost unthinkable in the US. I really like what the UK had in place for gun control, but I wonder if it would be as successful in the US. Our culture is so different and Americans value individual freedoms, such as the right to bear arms, so it would have to be greatly adapted for something like that to even be considered in the US. I am really excited to find out more about this topic and hopefully interview a few police officers in the process!
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