rationalize the need for more guns‚ an accurate tally of the number of guns in circulation is in order. The United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is a federally run program that protects American consumers against unreasonable risk of deaths or injuries associated with consumer products. The CPSC was created in the 1970’s along with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) as a protection from faulty and unsafe products
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GUN CONTROL & GUN VIOLENCE in CHILDREN To start my essay off‚ I have an unusual story that is true. My mom knew a girl when she was little. The girl was around the age of 2-4 years old. She got a hold of the gun her family had in the home and shot her older sibling. Then when she was in the eighth grade‚ her little brother got a hold of the same gun that her family had and killed her. It proves my point on why children should not have guns and children in the home
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firearms were due to mental illness. The number of guns entering the United States continues to grow with approximately two hundred million privately owned firearms in the United States as of 2000 and more than seven million added to this number every year. It is easy to purchase a gun without having to go through background checks. Guns sold privately or at gun shows do not fall under the federal government’s gun regulations. About forty percent of gun sales fell through this “loophole” where private
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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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America has become better known for its massive amounts of firearm violence‚ including murder‚ suicide‚ and mass shootings. In 2011 there were 467‚321 people victim to crimes committed with firearms. An average of 30‚000 people are killed by guns each year‚ and more than 30 people per day are murdered‚ along with the 268 people shot per day. Half of these deaths are people ages ranging from 18 to 35‚ and a third are ages 20 and below; making homicide the second leading cause of death within
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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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another statistic in the rising violent crime rate produced by guns. This has become an all too familiar scenario for families living not only in Chicago‚ but inner cities throughout the United States. Mainstream media would like for everyone to believe that it is the gun that is to blame for these crimes‚ while politicians use these unfortunate events to push their anti-gun agendas. Many legislators have addressed the issue of gun violence with ideas from stricter laws‚ to all out bans on certain types
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addressing gun violence‚ it is pertinent to focus on the guns themselves and those who own them. Gun violence has been a major issue in the world for quite some time. The most catastrophic examples are mass shootings that devastate numerous families and citizens nationwide. Although these events are leaving a scar in America and around the world‚ there are not many current implementations that are addressing these issues. There are several strategies that can dramatically reduce cases of gun violence
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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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Nikita Youth Gun Violence Every time I look around someone is dying. Its so crazy how close this topic is to me. I chose this topic on a Tuesday and on the very next day (Wednesday) a close friend of mine was shot and killed. So as I write his Essay I can’t help but to think about him‚ his name was Alex Bland 21yr old. From the years of 2002-2006‚ 687 Chicago youth were killed by guns‚ and firearms are used in 10 out of 14 murder-suicide in Illinois. In 2005 71% (435) of the homicides and 36%
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