Conflicts

Conflict occurs when individuals or groups are not obtaining what they need or want and are seeking their own self-interest.
Beginnings of conflict can be poor communication, seeking power, dissatisfaction with management style, weak leadership, lack of openness and change in leadership.
Conflict is destructive when it takes attention from other important activities, polarizes people and groups, reducing cooperation, increases difference and leads to harmful behavior, such as fighting, name-calling. Conflict is constructive when it results in solutions to problems, involves people in resolving issues important to them, causes authentic communication, helps release emotion, anxiety and stress, builds cooperation among people through learning more about each other and helps individuals develop undurstanding and skills.
The best way to solve a conflict is to prevent it, but this thing is not possible in each of the complex situation of life. When we face this kind of problem, what can we do?
The first step is to establish if there is a real conflict, meaning if there are two sides that have different interests and neither of them willing to make a compromise.
The next step, if there is a real conflict is search the causes.
If after analizing the causes of the conflict, you couldn't reach a common point, then negotiate the state of facts: what can be saved? How would things look if there were no conflict?
The last step is to learn from previous mistakes.
In conclusion, to be in conflict with somebody is not a good idea because it is not healthy and costs a lot of nerves.

Gun control

Every year, more than two thousand people die in United States from gun-related injuries. The population groups most affected by these avoidable deaths are children and young sdolescents. The misuse of firearms is a problem worldwide, of course.
Research from around the world indicates that sociostructural factors, such as high unemployment rates, ethnic and religious hostilities, political insability, financial inequalities, lack of resources, and economic deprivation increase the likelihood of violence.
There are a variety of ways of dealing with the problems caused by guns in society, and legislation is is one of the methods most commonly used. Franklin Zimring has noted that laws that regulate gun use fall into three categories: those that limit the place and the manner of firearm use, those that keep guns out of the hands of highrisk users, and those that ban high risk firearms.
Place and manner legislation sets out to do as it suggests, to limit certain uses of firearms in certain locations. Examples include banning the use of firearms in public places and prohibiting the carrying of a firearm(except for those carried by security personnel and police).
Denying high-risk users access to firearms is the second type of legislative tool to control gun misuse. In order for this approach to work, the law has define clearly who falls into the category of "high-risk user". The term is usually applied to convicted criminals and to drug addicts. It also applies to minors. Such legislation attempts to make it difficult for members of these groups to possess a firearm.
The third legislative strategy used to combat the misuse of firearms is to introduce legislation regulating the use of very dangerous weapons. Sawed-off shotguns, machine guns, and certain military devices are the kinds of weapons covered by this type of legislation.
The ideal gun control measure would be one that would prevent all crime and violence involving guns without interfering with their legitimate use in contemporary life.