Decision, Risk, and Operations, Columbia Business School cwchan@columbia.edu. Bo Zhu. Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University zhubo@cims.nyu.edu. In hospitals, Step Down Units (SDUs) provide an intermediate level of care between the Intensive Care Units (ICUs) and. the general medical-surgical wards. These units, which arealso commonly referred to as intermediate care. units and transitional care units, are found in many, but not all, hospitals in developed nations.
People should have the right to bear arms to protect themselves and their property but there needs to be greater restrictions on the type and number of guns that people are allowed to use. The right to bear arms is an important hallmark to the rights we are granted as US citizens. However, at the time the Bill of Rights was written, criminal violence was not the same problem it is today.
That the people have a right to bear arms for the defense of themselves and their own state, or the United States, or for the purpose of killing game; and no law shall be passed for disarming the people or any of them, unless for crimes committed, or real danger of public injury from individuals....[85]