On February 20, Rodger Jones posted an article on Dallas News. The article was about legalizing pot to make profit. Jones says that lawmakers are wanting to take the drugs out of the criminals hands so that they could license, tax, and regulate its distributions. The sale would be restricted to adults only and to one ounce at a time, Jones states in the article. Making pot legal would be much like alcohol. There are more deaths from alcohol abuse than pot use, and more people get addicted to alcohol rather than pot. Also, making it legal would make tons of money and give more job opportunities.  I, personally, don't see anything wrong with pot being legalized. Either way people are gonna get their hands on it, so why not actually make some money and jobs from it?

On Thursday, February 7, 2013 CNN published an article about a 15 year old girl from Chicago, Illinois who was gunned down in a park. She was an honor student and band majorette who had just performed along side her classmates at President Obama's inauguration just a week before. Police say the girl had no known gang affiliation and was, most likely, not the intended target. It is a little ironic how this girl was killed in the middle of a debate over gun control. The Nation wrote that there were 16 shootings in U.S. in 2012. This is crazy and out of control.  Many people are reaching out to the First Family to attend the funeral hoping this will get people thinking and talking about gun control.