Gun Laws in the USA

2)http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/12/14/school-shooting-connecticut/1769367/

3)Gun debate : cartoons


4)http://justfacts.com/guncontrol
As of 2009, the United States has a population of 307 million people.

* Based on production data from firearm manufacturers, there are roughly 300 million firearms owned by civilians in the United States as of 2010. Of these, about 100 million are handguns.

* Based upon surveys, the following are estimates of private firearm ownership in the U.S. as of 2010:

	Households With a Gun	Adults Owning a Gun	Adults Owning a Handgun
Percentage	40-45%	30-34%	17-19%
Number	47-53 million	70-80 million	40-45 million

* A 2005 nationwide Gallup poll of 1,012 adults found the following levels of firearm ownership:

Category	Percentage Owning a Firearm
Households	42%
Individuals	30%
Male	47%
Female	13%
White	33%
Nonwhite	18%
Republican	41%
Independent	27%
Democrat	23%

Constitution

* In the Bill of Rights, the Second Amendment to the Constitution reads:

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.

* Gun control proponents have argued and some federal courts have ruled that the Second Amendment does not apply to individual citizens of the United States but only to members of militias, which, they assert, are now the state National Guard units. In 2002, a federal appeals court panel ruled that "the people" only "have the right to bear arms in the service of the state."

* Gun rights proponents have argued and some federal courts have ruled that the Second Amendment recognizes "an individual right to keep and bear arms." In 2001, a federal appeals court panel ruled that the Second Amendment "protects the right of individuals, including those not then actually a member of any militia or engaged in active military service or training, to privately possess and bear their own firearms...."

 (Just Facts is a non-profit research and educational institute)

CNN :Gun control: Change is possible -- and fast

1)Obama 'Sceptical' About More Guns In Schools :The president vows to do all he can to prevent a re-occurrence of what he called the "worst day" of his presidency.Barack Obama has voiced scepticism about proposals to put armed guards in schools, following the Sandy Hook massacre of 20 children and six adults.http://news.sky.com/story/1031611/obama-sceptical-about-more-guns-in-schools

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/12/16/opinion/australia-gun-laws/index.html?eref=editionDecember 16, 2012 

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3)How will Newtown shootings change the US gun debate?http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20742508 (Report+video)
The Connecticut school shootings have horrified America. But what impact, if any, will they have on the nation's gun laws?4)Obama's tears(Video):http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP1blMoveZY

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A mardi j'espère ! Keep you posted.

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The company was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while both attended Stanford University. Together, Brin and Page own about 16 percent of the company's stake. Google was first incorporated as a privately held company on September 4, 1998, and its initial public offering followed on August 19, 2004. The company's mission statement from the outset was "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful" and the company's unofficial slogan is "Don't be evil". In 2006, the company moved to its current headquarters in Mountain View, California.Google has been estimated to run over one million servers in data centers around the world, and process over one billion search requests and about twenty-four petabytes of user-generated data every day.

As of October 2012, Alexa listed the main U.S.-focused google.com site as the Internet's second most visited website and numerous international Google sites as being in the top hundred, as well as several other Google-owned sites such as YouTube and Blogger. Google also ranks number two in the BrandZ brand equity database. The dominant market position of Google's services has led to criticism of the company over issues including privacy, copyright, and censorship

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