building a foundation for ethical business behavior

Assignment Overview This class will aid in building a foundation for ethical business behavior that can be applied in many settings. Our first Case Assignment lets you flex critical thinking and debate skills. In the workplace, employees must often support a professional point of view that may be contrary to personal beliefs. This assignment challenges students to understand both sides of the fence on hot-button issues and to consider all points of view. Both sides of the argument should be equally powerful so that the reader is unaware of the position that you espouse. Case Assignment Gun Control use this two articles *Abstract Translate Abstract “Power grows out of the barrel of a gun. Why does the government want your gun?” shouted Scott Engen, executive director of the Utah Shooting Sports Council. “Power! Power! Where does the power in this society belong? With the people!” Pointing to the state’s most powerful union, the Utah Education Association, Engen said the gun lobby will begin to follow the UEA’s example by targeting delegates at party caucuses statewide. “We are going to win this fight, not with bullets, not with bombs, but with ballots.” Rick Egan/The Salt Lake Tribune They chanted, shouted, hoisted signs and American flags at Capitol to let lawmakers know they oppose gun control. The gun lobby vowed to follow the UEA’s example on flexing political muscle. Rick Egan/The Salt Lake Tribune [Hope Bisbing] hopes her message is clear enough for state lawmakers to understand. Full Text Translate Full text Hope Bisbing lugs a .38-caliber pistol along when she hikes at night near Brigham City. “Women need an equalizer,” the 72-year-old says. “We are not as strong as these criminals coming in raping us. The guns are an equalizer.” On Saturday, more than 1,200 gun-rights supporters traveled from the corners of Utah to the Capitol with the goal of curtailing recent gun-control measures. Bisbing was there, packing a Saturday morning special. The placard said “Women Need Handguns.” Other signs read “Dump DeeDee — Save the Law Abiding Citizens” and “Please Let My Daddy Protect Me.” “Power grows out of the barrel of a gun. Why does the government want your gun?” shouted Scott Engen, executive director of the Utah Shooting Sports Council. “Power! Power! Where does the power in this society belong? With the people!” The crowd responded with a rumbling applause. Engen called the Utah gun lobby, representing 323,966 households, the state’s largest special-interest group. Pointing to the state’s most powerful union, the Utah Education Association, Engen said the gun lobby will begin to follow the UEA’s example by targeting delegates at party caucuses statewide. “We are going to win this fight, not with bullets, not with bombs, but with ballots.” Rep. Mike Waddoups, R-Salt Lake City, dressed in plaid shirt, white turtle-neck and blue jeans, spoke briefly about his House Bill 157. That legislation would create statewide firearms laws rather than allowing each city to have different standards. “This issue needs to be addressed on the state and national level, not on the local level.” Retired New York City police Officer Tom Santise delivered a crowd-pleasing speech, warning that Salt Lake City Mayor Deedee Corradini’s guns-for-cash-program does not work. In one year, Santise’s precinct of 125,000 residents saw 87 homicides. None of those murders was committed by law-abiding citizens using registered guns. Only the honest citizens will turn in guns anyway, he argued. “I would love to see a day when no one has to carry a gun for protection,” Santise said. “But until that day, let me carry my piece on my hip to protect myself and those I love.” Diane Rackiewicz was one of two women to speak — and one of the few women at the rally. This Salt Lake City mother is a weapons dealer. She said half of Utah’s registered voters — women — are largely ignorant of gun use. During the 1960s, police in Orlando, Fla., proved women could make a difference against crime by learning how to use guns, she said. “It came down because the women were trained and comfortable with weapons. They were focused on self-defense,” she said. “That needs to happen everywhere.” Illustration Rick Egan/The Salt Lake Tribune They chanted, shouted, hoisted signs and American flags at Capitol to let lawmakers know they oppose gun control. The gun lobby vowed to follow the UEA’s example on flexing political muscle. Rick Egan/The Salt Lake Tribune Hope Bisbing hopes her message is clear enough for state lawmakers to understand. Word count: 533 https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.trident.edu/docview/288628101/9E6E63E3FFB54317PQ/2?accountid=28844) Copyright Salt Lake Tribune Feb 20, 1994( *THE DEBATE ON GUN CONTROL BAN ALL THE GUNS. NOW. PERIOD.: [All Editions.=.2 Star B. 2 Star P. 1 Star Early] By DENIS HORGAN. The Record; Bergen County, N.J. [Bergen County, N.J]21 May 1999: l09. Full text Abstract/Details Hide highlighting Abstract Translate Abstract BAN THEM entirely. Run a huge legal magnet over the country and collect every gun we can. Melt them down. Use the hot, heavy metal to make a monument to the hundreds of thousands of victims of firearm violence. It would reach to the moon. Forget gun control. Ban guns entirely. How can anyone believe there is any hope at all that anything meaningful will be done to reduce the national gun carnage when the craven Senate majority dances to its NRA marionette-master’s tune, fighting a pathetically modest paperwork effort to monitor the sale of some few weapons. Dump the outdated Second Amendment _ the only amendment that kills. There’s no prospect of nickel-and-diming the national bloodshed. The gun people would rather see humans die than than have anything happen to limit their precious guns. People are being killed and wounded by the hundreds of thousands and the gun fanatics worry about paperwork. It is sick. They are sick. Their sycophants in Washington are worse than sick. Full Text Translate Full text One of two related articles BAN THEM entirely. Run a huge legal magnet over the country and collect every gun we can. Melt them down. Use the hot, heavy metal to make a monument to the hundreds of thousands of victims of firearm violence. It would reach to the moon. Forget gun control. Ban guns entirely. How can anyone believe there is any hope at all that anything meaningful will be done to reduce the national gun carnage when the craven Senate majority dances to its NRA marionette-master’s tune, fighting a pathetically modest paperwork effort to monitor the sale of some few weapons. Dump the outdated Second Amendment _ the only amendment that kills. There’s no prospect of nickel-and-diming the national bloodshed. The gun people would rather see humans die than than have anything happen to limit their precious guns. People are being killed and wounded by the hundreds of thousands and the gun fanatics worry about paperwork. It is sick. They are sick. Their sycophants in Washington are worse than sick. Just prohibit the blood-drenched things. England pretty much did that and the last time anyone looked England survives. We can change. We know that we have in our laws the skeleton key to mayhem and mothers crying out in anguish. The senators may not care that there is slaughter in their communities but the rest of us do. It is wrong and we can change it. In my time, the laws of the land allowed terrible discrimination against our black neighbors, against women. We changed it. In my father’s time women were not allowed to vote; they changed it. In my father’s father’s time it was legal to own another human being; they changed that. It makes no difference to the gun guys and their lapdogs in office that children are being blasted to pieces. They don’t care that the country is turning into a huge arsenal where any lunatic with a few bucks can find a way to slither through the porous rules. It doesn’t much bother them that we have nearly as many guns as we have people and that kids can easily get pretty much anything they “need” to conduct a symphony of murder at places like Columbine or Heritage high schools. They don’t care. Their guns are more important than children. Imagine that. People say that Prohibition didn’t work, that it spawned gangsters and lawlessness, inconvenienced millions. Maybe. And maybe for a dozen years there was less pain and battering than there was before or since. The gangsters did not vanish with repeal. We lose more lives to people drinking than we do to people not drinking. But, at the least and maybe the most, there is some good, too, in alcohol or automobiles which stands in contrast to the ghastly harm that occurs with such things badly used. Where is the good in guns that outweighs the thousands and thousands of killings? The national will was opposed to the prohibition of liquor, but where is the national will to continue the gunplay? Yet the gun people, with their politicians bought and paid for, fight every tiny effort to bring sanity to the maniacal reality that stains this country a bright red. The smallest, tamest, most procedural ideas are assailed as if they threatened the fabric of the nation _ when it is the firepower and killing that endanger us. Politicians bold enough to send us to war in distant lands are too timid to battle the weapons of our war at home. Legislators ready to build a Berlin Wall against immigrants who would contribute so much will not lift a finger to keep out the millions of weapons that kill us in pornographic numbers. Addicted to the money and influence of the gun gang, they will do nothing about a national poison that destroys as surely as any narcotic. What’s wrong with these people? Don’t they hear the agony of their people living in terror of the flood of guns? Don’t they respect the true blue world whose police officers and organizations speak out so forcefully for gun control? Cops know that there is no honor in having the epithet, “He died for someone’s perverse reading of the Second Amendment.” But they do not care about the police officers whose lives are at peril or the citizenry at risk. They demonstrate that with their blood-stained, uncontrolled allegiance to gun money. They should be ashamed of themselves. No, the answer is not control. Ban the guns. Denis Horgan is a Hartford Courant columnist. Word count: 769 Copyright Bergen Evening Record Corporation May 21, 1999( Using articles exclusively from Trident Librarys full-text databases like (Academic Search Complete, Business Source Complete and/or ProQuest Central), research the chosen topic and create a well-balanced 2-page submission that addresses two opposing viewpoints. Do not use any quotations. Assignment Expectations Since you are engaging in research, be sure to cite and reference the sources in APA format. The paper should be written in third person; this means words like I, we, and you are not appropriate. For more information, see Differences Between First and Third Person. Use the attached APA-formatted template ETH501 Case1 to create your submission. Your submission will include: Trident University Internationals cover page A two-page paper with APA citations (2- to 3-sentence introduction, body, 2- to 3-sentence conclusion) The reference list page in APA format Grading Note: At Trident University International, rubrics are used for grading. These rubrics specify the points available for each component of an assignment. Points are earned based on the level of the work submitted. The rubric located in the Case Dropbox is used for this Case Assignment. The reference are alreday on the information given.