Gun Violence David Green Monroe College Gun Violence Many of people have heard the phrase‚ “Guns don’t kill people on their own; it takes a person to pull the trigger.” Even if people find this statement to be true‚ guns are an issue that needs to be addressed. A gun is simply an easy tool that a person can use and manipulate with hardly any thought. Many suggest taking away guns and promoting peace through government help while others think that the guns are what keep them safe. Situations
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Gun Violence Gun violence‚ in the United States especially‚ is a growing concern and highly debated topic when the discussion of gun control is brought up. Here are several facts that I found to be troubling‚ and even disturbing. * The average of guns deaths in the annual is less than 50 in Japan compared to more than 10‚000 in the United States. (http://www.heedinggodscall.org/content/pfctoolkit-10) The number of gun related deaths in the United States dwarfs that of Japan annually‚ perhaps
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is the gun control epidemic. Gun violence in the United States is a national epidemic. Many people take advantage of guns using and manipulating the tool with hardly any thought. Countless lives have been lost due to fact that people have been able to obtain firearms legally or illegally and have taken the notion to be judge‚ jury and executioner in holding ones live in their hands. This is a common issue that will continue if action is not taken as a nation to try and stop it. Gun violence can
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Gun Violence in America Since the inception of firearms‚ people have been wielding all types of arms and ammunitions against each other in order to injure or kill their opponent. In the modern world‚ this violence is unwarranted and goes against everything society stands for. Nowhere else is gun violence most prevalent than in the United States of America. Because of the Constitution‚ Americans have had the right to bear arms since 1776. When the Constitution was drafted‚ the term “arms” meant nothing
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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
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The idea of violence and mental illness in the news can affect society in many different ways. News articles that focus on mental illness is intended to change society’s opinion on gun control to make them believe it is the person’s fault for the gun violence. Instead of finding fault in the guns itself‚ people want to blame mental illnesses for causing all the problems in the world‚ “conservative commentator Anne Coulter provocatively proclaimed ‘guns don’t kill people- the mentally ill do”’ (Metzl
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Gun Violence Each day approximately thirty-two people are killed by another person through gun violence‚ fifty-one-commit suicide with a gun‚ and forty-five people are shot on accident. The availability of guns is the leading cause to gun violence; In order to decrease crime rates the Government must stop loopholes on gun availability‚ and increase regulations on background checks. The main reasons for all of this gun violence are the works of loopholes: opportunities‚ the blame are on loopholes
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Youth and Guns: Violence in America Gun violence in the United States has become an epidemic. From the Civil War to the present‚ 567‚000 Americans have died in combat; but since 1920‚ over 1 million American civilians have been killed by firearms (Children’s Defense Fund‚ p.15). For thousands of teens‚ death from gun violence is the end of the pipeline. In 2007‚ 3‚042 children and teens died from gunfire in the United States—eight every day—as a result of homicide‚ suicide or accidental shootings
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38-caliber gun and opened fire. Gillom’s shots fatally wounded Gibson and left Lee with a non-fatal gunshot wound to the neck (Washington Ceasefire‚ 2011 pg 1). The shooting in Harlem‚ Georgia sparked national attention as one of the first high school shootings and added to the alarmingly high rates of gun violence by adolescents during the 1990s. According to the Virginia Youth Violence Project‚ forty-two homicides took place in American schools in 1993 (2009 pg/par). While the rate of gun violence in American
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normal everywhere else. When compared to 22 other high-income nations‚ such as Germany‚ Australia‚ and Canada‚ researchers with The American Journal of Medicine found that the gun deaths on US soil account for 82% of all the gun deaths in these countries combined. In other words‚ 82 out of 100 deaths caused by gun violence in 23 of the wealthiest‚ most developed nations in the world occur in the United States (Preidt). Whether you label this a public health problem or a mental health problem‚ a legal
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