US History Sachin Katyal

How do other countries with similar rates of gun ownership compare in homicides and restrictions to the United States. The United States does have some regulation on concealed weapons on the possession of certain types of weapons. The Gun Control Act of 1968 prevents those who are under 18 years old, criminals and the mentally disabled from owning guns. In comparison the rest of the world, as of 2007, the United States has the highest rate of gun ownership with having 3 times the number of guns per 100 people than Norway, the second place country. Canada trails Norway and Australia, Israel, United Kingdom, and Japan proceed after that. I was then brought attention to a new graph that should statistics of Gun homicides per 100,000 and found that the United States was again in the lead with 3.5 and Israel, the second place, with just around 1 person. Canada, Australia, Norway, United Kingdom, and Japan follow. For Canada, since 1989, there have been major gun reforms that imposed a 28...

Immigration has been and continues to be a source of conflict since the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, when the United States received its first major wave of immigrants from central, south and eastern Europe, to the now enduring conflict of illegal immigrants from Mexico. The biggest questions that remains is: how drastic was the immigration of the 1880's to 1920's, why were so many urban factory workers unhappy with this new wave, and what measures were taken to fix this "problem?" Figure 1: Immigrants' native country Before the Civil War, as Masaryk University  puts it,  immigrants known as “old” immigrants came in waves of around 150,000 per year. When the Civil War approached, however, the government rolled back any restrictions they had on immigrants, allowing “new” immigration to begin. While pre-Civil War immigration consisted of mainly immigrants from North and Western Eu...