The video spoke on the gun violence that is taking place in Chicago. Gun violence and gang leaders are the main reason for the numerous amounts of death in Chicago. After doing some research‚ Chicago continues to with the highest homicide rates in the United States. In Miles Bryan’s article he states that‚ Chicago has had more than 700 homicides in the year of 2016. In September of 2016 he also states that the city of Chicago surpassed 2015s killings by 470. (Bryan. M‚ 2016). A theory that connects
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For many‚ mental health and gun violence seem to go hand in hand. While it seems logical that individuals that perpetrate mass shootings must have some mental illness such as in the case of Adam Lanza who in December 2012 carried out one of the most tragic mass shootings at the Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown Connecticut. In that shooting Lanza‚ who was 20 years old at the time‚ killed his mother then went on to slaughter 6 adults and 20 children between the ages of 6 and 7 and finally
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Open carry is an ongoing topic of dispute amongst the entire United States. Some states are lax with their gun laws while some are stricter. The controversy over gun control is all over the media‚ especially because of the ongoing occurrences of shootings. The behaviors of these individuals are not at all alike but they all are committing these heinous acts against innocent people‚ some even children. Each one seems to have a different agenda‚ such as terrorist acts‚ and others are just random people
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believe that there is no solution to gun violence and therefore it will never completely be resolved. But‚ I also believe there are some actions that the United States government can take to reduce the amount of gun violence. Starting in the classrooms‚ kids need to be educated on guns and the effects they can have on people from the start. They are our future‚ and we need to bring more awareness to the extreme dangers and consequences that can come from guns. Like the Drug Abuse Resistance Education
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problem of so many people being killed due to gun violence. There shouldn’t be as much access to the various amounts of weapons that there are. Publicly selling these weapons‚ cause people to want more. “The more you get‚ the more you want‚” is something I’ve heard many times in my life. Hearing that over and over I started to see it in action in things like this. Although gun stores require background checks‚ they don’t have crazy checks. Saying guns are not needed is kind of a stretch; judging from
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(television‚ radio and newspapers)‚ social marketing (advertisements) and community organizing (community events). Gun violence permeates the news‚ popular television shows‚ movies‚ advertisements as well as the toy industry. Through these media channels children are influenced to use guns and are taught to believe that it is natural to have a gun in the home. In an effort to decrease gun violence it is the intention of the writer to implement a community health intervention program combining the media
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A Child’s First Toy an AR-15: An Analysis on Gun Violence Remember the mass shooting where two young boys opened fire at Columbine High School killing a dozen young students and injuring twenty-four before taking their own lives? Or the massacre in Jonesboro‚ Arkansas when two middle school students opened fire killing five students and injuring ten? Or the mass shooting at Virginia Tech or Sandy Hook elementary school the list goes on. We see mass shootings happen yearly. In 2015‚ there were reported
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Gun violence is a serious issue‚ but is taking away guns going to solve it? I think it will not for three main reasons: Laws only affect law abiding citizens‚ other countries have tried this (it doesn’t work)‚ and that it would be almost impossible to enforce. To start things off‚ making laws to ban guns will not stop people from getting them. People will buy the guns in question on the black market. The Trans Border Institute estimates that over 250‚000 guns are illegally imported into the U.S
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his week’s chapter talked about contributing factors to what causes someone to partake in domestic violence. Many studies have been conducted that reveal a correlation between people who have a substance abuse problem and people who engage in intimate partner violence. The studies support that men who have a drug or alcohol issue are 3.1 times more likely to abuse their partner. They also have found the same correlation with women who have a substance abuse issue. I was not surprised with all
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Ariana Fisher‚ a pediatrician at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. As a caregiver to children in the state of Ohio‚ I am writing you today to speak to you about a very important topic: gun violence. As a constituent and young pediatrician‚ I have already seen the monumental toll gun violence takes upon children. As a teenager‚ I lost my friend‚ Amanda‚ in a domestic homicide-suicide. As a medical student‚ I witnessed the autopsy of a young man who was shot four times by a 16-year-old.
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