Gun Control‚ a Mental Health Issue in America In particular‚ gun control of late has rapidly become an even more controversial topic in America due to violent acts against the public by troubled individuals. In an article written by Jonathan Metzl and Kenneth MacLeish‚ “Mental Illness‚ Mass Shootings and the Politics of American Firearms”‚ the authors state that “In the United States‚ popular and political discourse frequently focuses on the causal impact of mental illness in the aftermath of mass
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12‚000 Americans are killed in gun-related homicides. That means‚ on average‚ 33 U.S. men‚ women and children die at the hands of others using firearms each day. Stopping this violence entirely is an impossible task. As a people‚ all that Americans can do is try to mitigate this violence using policy‚ and recently attempts have been made at doing so by limiting the people’s right to bear arms. On paper‚ this approach makes sense: to lessen gun violence‚ fewer guns should be legally allowed in society
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While guns can be a means of protection‚ other times guns can be the source of fear and despair. Many countries must deal with the topic of gun control. In Canada‚ Prime Minister Justin Trudeau aims to “take action to get handguns and assault weapons off of our streets” (Liberals’ Website). However‚ with the lack of gun violence in Canada‚ some people see the making of gun laws stricter as unnecessary or an attack; others see this as mandatory for the safety of other people. One can argue that having
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that our children are preparing to die‚ while our Congress waits because there isn’t enough evidence that guns are the issue that is ruining our society. We need gun control in the US because our society cannot be built based on fear. Our children should not have to grow up in a world where they must hide from their own source of knowledge. The Second Amendment protects individual rights to own guns‚ but that should not mean that we have
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killed by guns in 2013 and 30‚800 people were killed by cars in the same year. People still say that cars are more safe that guns but with the statistics above I would say not. There is even more statistics that show how guns can help Americans in daily life. An example of this is that more than 2.5 million people were saved due to self defense by drawing a gun. With this I propos that we get government out of our self defense or in other words I fell that we should get rid of gun control. The reason
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you give them a gun? I would think not. However‚ this point commands some attention and few have addressed the issue of how others’ incompetence can most certainly interfere in our lives in many damaging ways. With our
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politicians want gun control to supposedly make the world safer. Even though some politicians may argue that gun control limits violence‚ gun control should be banned because guns in the hands of noble people give protection and drop crime rates. Gun control‚ as defined in the Merriam-Webster‚ is “laws that control how guns are sold and used and who can use them” (Webster). This means that this regulation on guns limits who can own a firearm and it tries to rule over throw a gun is used. Gun control
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GUN CONTROL +Obama’s quote for gun ban : "While there is no law or set of laws that can prevent every senseless act of violence completely‚ no piece of legislation that will prevent every tragedy‚ every act of evil‚ if there’s even one thing we can do to reduce this violence‚ if there’s even one life that can be saved‚ then we’ve got an obligation to try it." +Some of the main legislative proposals backed by Obama and Vice President Joe Biden are: -requiring criminal background checks on all gun
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Statement: Gun control decreases crime. If gun control is regulated‚ then we will have less crime. Access to firearms makes killing easy‚ efficient‚ and impersonal‚ which increases the lethality of crime. Josh Sugarmann‚ the Executive Director of the Violence Policy Center has once said‚ "We recoil in horror and search for explanations‚ but we never face up to the obvious preventive measure: a ban on the handy killing machines that make crimes so easy.”Allowing untrained people to carry guns puts others
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“Where you have the most armed citizens in America‚ you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control‚ you have the highest crime rate.” -Ted Nugent. One of the biggest political issues today is gun control. There have been so many shootings in the streets‚ in schools‚ in federal buildings‚ colleges‚ and movie theaters. There are many theories on gun control from both conservative and liberal sides; I believe the answer in somewhere in the middle. In 1791 the Constitution
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