The Consequences Of Gun Violence

Over the past four years, “there have been at least 1,252 people killed and 4,453 wounded by gun-violence” (Vox). These records have been being recorded since the mass shooting that took place in Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012. It’s really hard to ignore how public gun-violence when it continuously takes place in the United States. There have been mass shootings killing a lot of people, like the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, as well as the 2016 Orlando Nightclub Shooting, but there has also been gun-violence that hasn’t killed masses of people but that killed people of great importance nationally speaking, like the homicide of Cristopher Scott "Chris" Kyle. Those are just a part of the many loses that the United States has suffered. Current Laws not being properly enforced fail to prevent gun violence.
A perfect example would be the one of Adam Lanza, the perpetrator of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, who killed 27 people. “Adam Lanza was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome by a psychiatrist. Adam also had obsessive-compulsive disorder” (Solomon). Yet his family owned several weapons, which they shouldn’t have been allowed to and shouldn’t have had to the reach of people since they had a child whose mental health was compromised and couldn’t take control of his actions, and him acquiring those guns his family owned made the tragedy