Gun Ownership Is A Dangerous Part Of The American Identity Analysis

“Gun Ownership is a Dangerous Part of the American Identity” Gary Younge’s article “Gun Ownership is a Dangerous Part of the American Identity”, states that the main source of the country’s gun complications stem from our unbelievable sense of pride, of self-power, freedom, and masculinity. Gun-related deaths are on the rise because of suicide, mass shootings involving drug and gang violence on the streets or in schools, accidental shootings caused by ignorant young children with irresponsible parents in charge, along with various other situations that result in death by a gun. Lowering the death rate caused by firearms is a simple but onerous task that we can accomplish if only we were to drop the mindset that ‘guns don’t kill people, people
Britain’s had two mass shootings and Australia’s had one mass shooting since gun control laws became strict and made access to guns much more difficult. In 2017 alone, America had 345 mass shootings. Yet America continues to cling on to our roots of our country’s Second Amendment, the right to bear arms, because many claim people will find other ways to achieve access to guns if we were to enforce gun control laws, even though evidence shows there is effectiveness in those laws. A straightforward and effortless procedure to avoid this issue is to start providing extra safety precautions such as metal detectors in areas of dense concentrations of
Ideologies like power and control, freedom, and masculinity should not be more important than the safety of tens of thousands of Americans lives. Younge’s intention of his article ”Gun Ownership is a Dangerous Part of the American Identity” was to spread gun control awareness, we should not value our own personal sense of worth that a gun gives us over the thousands of lives that result in death each and every