Explain the role the Supreme Court has taken in deciding if convicted felons and others who may impose a fear of danger may possess firearms
What will be an ideal response?
In 1968, after the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr., and Senator Robert Kennedy, the Gun Control Act was passed.
It banned federal licensees from selling firearms to prohibited persons—anyone
they knew or had reasonable cause to believe was or had been:
- under indictment for or convicted of a felony,
- a fugitive,
- a drug user,
- adjudicated a mental defective or committed to a mental institution, or
- fit into other limited categories.
The Supreme Court has ruled that the federal law that bars gun ownership by convicted felons does not apply to those convicted in foreign courts.
The student's answer also may include a discussion on recent laws in regard to terrorists or those on a terror watch list.
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Research cited by Dodge and Pettit (2003) indicates that children who were peer rejected for at least two years by the time they reached 2nd grade had a ___ chance of displaying antisocial behavior in adolescence
a) 34 percent b) 28 percent c) 15 percent d) 50 percent
Bacteria and viruses share a common characteristic but are different from toxins. Which of the following explain that difference?
a. Toxins are poisonous and dangerous, while bacteria and viruses are normally safe when found in their natural environments. b. Toxins are not considered living organisms, while bacteria and viruses are. Instead, toxins are non-living chemical substances produced as a by-product by living organisms. c. Bacteria and viruses have a low specificity but toxins have a high specificity because most attack certain organs that only humans have. d. Bacteria and viruses are found naturally occurring in the environment but toxins are synthetic.
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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Through the __________ Amendment, all constitutional rules apply equally to federal and state police action under the due process clause
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).