CRIME - USA

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CRIME - USA
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USA Crime Investigation

• AIMS
• To find out what gives Americans the RIGHT to
  carry guns?
• To find out how easy it is to get a gun in the
  USA?
• To find out the views of PRESSURE GROUPS on the
  RIGHT to carry guns?
• To find out the connection between guns and CRIME
  in the USA?

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Your Investigation
Front Cover
Contents Page
Intro
Aim 1
Aim 2
Conclusion
Aim 3
Aim 4
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What is a RIGHT?

• A RIGHT is something that the LAW says we CAN do.
• In Britain we have the right leave school when we
  are 16 or to vote when we are 18.

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AIM1 What gives Americans the RIGHT to carry a
gun?

• Turn to page 53 in your USA book and make notes
  on the right to carry guns in the USA.

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How easy is it to get a gun in the USA?

• It is not very difficult to get a gun in the USA.
  In most States as long as you are over 21, you
  only need a driving licence or some other form of
  identification to buy a gun. In fact, it is
  easier to get a gun than it is to get a driving
  licence!

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AIM 2 How easy is it to get a gun in the USA?
Write a short paragraph about what you have to do
in order to buy a gun in the USA
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The Right to Carry Law

• Most states in the USA now have Right to Carry
  laws
• These laws only apply to Gun Shop sales not
  other ways of getting a gun
• Take notes on the Right to Carry laws in the
  USA see P53/54

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What is a PRESSURE GROUP?

• A pressure group is a group that puts pressure on
  governments and other organisations to make
  changes.
• In the USA they are called Interest Groups

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AIM 3 What are the views of PRESSURE GROUPS on
the right to carry a gun?

• In America the NRA (National Rifle Association)
  is a pressure group that protects the right of
  Americans to carry a gun.

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Activities

• Make notes on the National Rifle Association
  (NRA) from P53

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AIM 4 Guns and Crime in the USA

• Make notes from the Factfile on P55
• Do Activities 12 and 14 on P56
• Refer to factsheet

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Rap Music and Guns

• What do you think? Is there a link between rap
  music and guns?

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Yo Yo Yo!

• Yo Yo Yo
• Lets get fresh!
• Im here to rap
• You better not mess!
• Some say that a gun be cool
• But its a lethal weaponnot a toy you fool!

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Yo Yo Yo

• Now write your own anti gun rapif youre
  feeling brave you can perform it in class!