Blog #11

In Nicholas  Kristof's article "Do We Have the Courage to Stop This" he talks about how America isn't making any effort to reduce gun accidents and how we are focusing on the safety of things that that don't compare to the deaths cause guns. According to a public health specialist named David  Hemenway, "The predominant reason kids are are dying in massacres like this one is not that we have lunatics or criminals- all countries have them- but that we suffer from a political failure to regulate guns". This shows that guns are taking many lives everyday and the government isn't doing anything about it. The article also talks  about how  america is making efforts for safety for things that are not compared to the gun deaths. Kristof goes on to state "The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has five pages of regulations about ladders, while federal authorities shrug at serious curbs on firearms. Ladders kill around 300 Americans a year, and guns 30,000" I think guns should be banned because we gave people chances to have them but they are irresponsible. Having guns is also good though, for people who have license and need to protect themselves.      

Blog #9

In Sabrina Tavernise's article "Obesity in young is seen as falling in serveral cities" she talks on obesity and how is decreasing slowly and what is the cause of this. Sabrina Tavernise talks on why  is decreasing even if its moving slowly. Tavernise says Though obesity is now part of the national conversation, with aggressive advertising campaigns in major cities and a push by Michelle Obama, many scientists think that obesity programs actually work." This shows that there is starting to be some belief in decreasing of obesity and people are helping to make this happen and the outcome is very successful. Sabrina also talks on how there are only certain cities who have had obesity decreased."New York and Los Angeles, as well as smaller places like Anchorage, Alaska, and Kearney, Neb. The state of Mississippi has also registered a drop, but only among white students. " This shows that obesity is dropping in few places but majority of the children are white. I think the government should just give up trying to prevent obesity because you need two to tango and the government id dancing with a partner with two left feet. The U.S. is already over populated and by people not caring about their health the population will eventually, slowly but progressively, decrease.

Blog #10

In Hakeem Jeffries CNN article "Marijuana laws just creating criminals" he talks about how imprisonment for possession of marijuana is highly unfair and useless. In one part of the article Hakeem Jeffries talks on how arresting citizens in the state of New York  for having marijuana is unfair. In the far beginning of the article Jeffries states "A majority of these arrest only happen in a certain neighborhoods, indeed compounding the injustices unfair  is the fact that 88% of the people arrested are black and Latino." This study shows that it is unnecessary to put people behind bars that have marijuana because the majority of these people are only going to get right back out without having none of this put on their records. I think people who get arrested for this reason should go to jail but only depending on how much marijuana they have in their possession when there is stop and frisk. If there were to be someone who was stopped by the police and has over a pound of drugs they should get six months or above. Maybe if cops performed a stop and frisk on people who aren't colored, or Caucasian, more often people of color wont  stereotype what and who they are