Laws Within America

Laws Within America

The United States of America has laws in place to protect and serve its citizens. The law is carried out and upheld by police officers to the best of their ability, yet there are still injustices within America due to what I believe is an inability of certain laws to clearly define right and wrong, and the punishments that should go along with the crimes.

I believe that if America is to right itself of these injustices, the first thing that needs to happen is an evening out of the punishments for crimes. I do not think that it is right that a man that robs a bank gets more time and a harder stint in prison, than a man that steals money from a company. I think that the law should be much harder on so-called "white collar" crime. The men that stole from Enron are just as bad as the men that hold up the local convenience stores.

Another way that America could shape up a little in the law department is stiffer penalties for those who own and sell illegal firearms. One does not have an illegal handgun to go hunting with on the weekend. Illegal firearms are used in crimes. I believe that if there were harsher penalties for those distributing and possessing illegal