hilfe bei den englisch HA--> echt wichtig! ;(

ich habe diesen text bekommen und soll nun diese fragen (unten)beantworten,leider habe ich null plan....
könnt ihr mir vielleicht unter die arme greifen...
morgen ist zensurenschluss un ich muss von meiner zensur runter.......
BITTE
HEGDL


They´ll shoot you anyway

Most anybody in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, can tell the story of how 10-year-old Monique Schweiger`s childhood ended.
The hard part is explaining why. It was just before 7 p.m. a month ago in the parking lot of Popeye`s Famous Fried Chicken & Biscuits on the north side of town. That`s where her mother Christine was ordered to her knees by two teenagers, 15 and 16 years old, who demanded her money. When Christine, an accountant and mother of three, said she didn`t have any, the 16-year-old apparently took offense. As Monique watched, the youth allegedly let loose at point-blank range with a 12-gauge sawed-off shotgun, blasting away most of Christine`s head. Police say he later explained that "I`m the big man. I got the gun. Why does she have this attitude?"Guns and attitudes; like so many American cities, Milwaukee is aching from the frequent and often fatal combination of the two. "It used to be your money or your life," says Sheriff Richard Artison. "Now they`ll shoot you anyway." Since 1980 the city`s homicide rate has doubled and now stands at more than 150 so far this year, spurred by a deadly convergence of gangs, drugs and ever more sophisticated weaponry.
The day after Christine Schweiger`s murder, more than a dozen local groups held a previously scheduled press conference to launch a petition drive to ban almost all handguns in the city. "Up until the past couple of months we`ve been doing what the N.R.A. wanted, and look where it`s got us," says Dan Ullrich, spokesman for the Campaign for a Better Milwaukee. "Halfway measures haven`t worked in other cities." The group hopes to collect the necessary . 20,300 signatures by mid-January, forcing the city council either to pass the ban or place it on the ballot in either April or November. The day after Christine Schweiger`s murder, more than a dozen local groups held a previously scheduled press conference to launch a petition drive to ban almost all handguns in the city. "Up until the past couple of months we`ve been doing what the N.R.A. wanted, and look where it`s got us," says Dan Ullrich, spokesman for the Campaign for a Better Milwaukee. "Halfway measures haven`t worked in other cities." The group hopes to collect the necessary . 20,300 signatures by mid-January, forcing the city council either to pass the ban or place it on the ballot in either April or November.
Passage by the council seems unlikely; success at the polls will require a fierce battle with opponents. A similar measure was defeated in more liberal Madison, Wisconsin, last spring, 51% to 49%, after an advertising blitz by the N.R.A. "Everyone is looking for a magic solution," says James Fendry, head of the Wisconsin Pro-Gun Movement. "We see the ban as broadcasting to gang bangers and druggies that their victims are less likely to be armed." Noting that Wisconsin has nearly 1 million licensed hunters, Fendry doesn`t give the petition a chance. Nor does alderman Fredrick Gordon, who represents some of the most dangerous streets in the city. "We`re not being victimized by people from the N.R.A. who use weapons to shoot deer. We`re being victimized by criminals."Yet even in deer-hunting country -- the Milwaukee Yellow Pages lists more than 30 taxidermists -- attitudes are shifting. Wisconsin passed a mandatory criminal background check on handgun buyers in 1991, and Attorney General James Doyle boasts that more than 560 convicted felons have already been foiled from legally purchasing a weapon. In 1991, after a bitter debate, Milwaukee approved a seven-day waiting period to purchase handguns, and last month the city council set aside $50,000 for a gun buyback program proposed by Police Chief Philip Arreola, whose officers visit schools to hand out gun- safety comic books featuring Molly Magnum and Shorty Shotgun.In a Milwaukee Journal poll last April, 65% of city residents favored a ban on handguns and assault weapons. "In this climate it`s actually possible that a handgun ban might pass in Milwaukee," says Mayor John Norquist, a Democrat. "I`ll vote for it, even though it won`t do much." Norquist prefers strict liability laws for manufacturers, more gun controls and tougher sentences for gun violations. "The Brady bill is an important first step," he says. "I`m encouraged because guns are becoming unfashionable, even creepy."

1.Explain what factors have countribuded the increase in violence in America?
2. Why it is so difficult to pass law on gun restiction in Milwaukee?
3. What is being done to change the situation?
4. Why does the writherbegin this article by recounting story of hwo 10years old Monique childhood ened?
5. To whats exend the writher reveal his own attitude to the topic of guns control by the way he deals with it? What does the sheriff meen when he sais “They´ll shoot you anyway”