Essay On Gun Violence

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 and McLeish). Blame is being put on people with mental illnesses and no one is blaming the actually weapons. In reality the blame should be put on both the guns and person. The people who are committing these crimes are not sane people, and they have many problems. They can be extremely dangerous to the world, but so are guns. People have discovered that “60% of perpetrators of mass shootings in the Unites States since 1970 displayed symptoms including acute paranoia, delusions, depression, before committing a crime” (Metzl and McLeish). How many of this mass shootings are publicized in the media? The answer is that more than
News coverage plays a role in making these influences develop. When the news channels focus on violence, it is setting up a wave of fear from people across the world. When one person reacts one way it usually triggers others to follow behind and react the same way. The world will then start to have more fear in the events that are happening. These influences can cause people to have the same opinions on other events that news has covered. People are starting to notice that many of the articles are focusing on violent events caused by someone with a mental illness. Blame is being put on the fact that this person has a mental illness rather than the problem with guns. Many people are changing their opinions on situations to fit what the world wants them to believe