comment on peer 2 (Han Tran)

I agree with Tran is saying about gun control. I don’t think that gun control should be taken lightly I believe that we need more supervision on guns not less like the NRA is doing in Georgia. I think that it is a bad idea to remove some of these restrictions such as not fingerprinting the gun owners. If we can’t match the gun to its owner then we have no idea who committed a crime. When the NRA says that we won’t finger print people it gives them more of a reason to commit a crime because they know it won’t be traced back to them. So I believe that Han Tran is right in saying that we should be more cautious with our gun regulations. 

comment on peer (jay)

I agree that marijuana should be legalized. However I don’t think it will help lower the crime rate or that it would give an economic boost and help people find more jobs. Jay says that if marijuana was legalized that it would bring down the crime rate I don’t think this is true. If marijuana is legalized then there would not be a market for it but robbers are going to steal and people are going to kill for their own purpose. Jay also says that by opening stores it would cut out the middle man that’s true but, if the cartel can’t sell marijuana they will just change their business to meth or heroine. Jay argues that people will open pot stores and we can tax the marijuana but what stops people form just growing on their own. However let’s say people do not grow their own weed but pot heads are too lazy to do anything they won’t even get off the couch. So I believe we will just have a super-giant like Walmart making more money off marijuana like they do current off everything else. If weed was legalized most people would smoke all day and lay on a couch and we get nothing done. 

Health Care reform save lives?

In the article written by Tara Culp-Ressler talks about how health care reforms can help reduce mortality rates. According to a new study done by Annals of Internal Science it shows that mortality rates have dropped in Massachusetts after their new health care reforms in 2006. The research shows that Massachusetts, compared to other similar areas, dropped their mortality rates by 3% after expanding their health coverage. Then Culp-Ressler argues her point and warns people that “Massachusetts is just one stare and their findings could be due to specific factors there that won’t lead to quite the same results nationally.”  However if the same results were achieved nationwide we could save more than 17,000 lives a year. The author also mentions that the life expectancy of Americans as a whole has been increasing but the poor people’s lives are getting shorten then the rest of us.

                I believe that the author is trying to send a message to everyone in America about healthcare reform. The author is saying that health care reform is not all bad and that a smaller version of Pres. Obama's health care reform has already happened in Massachusetts. The healthcare reform in Massachusetts has led to a lower mortality rate and the author thinks that if we give Obama Care a chance then we could achieve the same results nationally. The author supports her claims with research done by New York Times and Annals of Internal Medicine. The author does mention that the lower mortality rate in Massachusetts could be just a fluke, a single event that had nothing to do with the changes in their health care policies.