What Are Gun Issues Among Teenagers Essay

From 1960’s to the present day over 166,600 children or teens have been killed by guns in the United States. In the article, “Many Children and Teens Are Killed or Injured by Guns Every Year”, author unknown will go into more detail about these issues this can be found on ic.galegroup.com. This article is okay it shows good and bad things, the good is how well it uses factual things and also how broad it is covering gun issues amongst teens, the bad is how repetitive it gets.

The United States has a high gun related death toll amongst teens. Gun deaths since being recorded in the 1960s has risen thirty percent in teens. Gun safety has been another troubling issue because over the years accidental deaths have climbed eighteen percent. Since 1963, there has been more children and teen deaths in the United States than are wars since then combined. These deaths are most likely to occur amongst boys as they hold eighty-seven percent of these deaths and nearly eighty-eight percent of gun injuries. Even though since 1963, more white children have died from gun related homicides and accidents, today African American children are 17 times more likely to die from a gun homicide.
This can be seen in a few different occasions in just the first two pages, for example, “accidental deaths increased 18 percent, from 114 to 134 deaths”. The reader can find this quote on the first page and then will find themselves reading it again a few sentences later as stated on page two,”In 2010, there were 1773 homicide gun deaths among children and teens, 749 suicide gun deaths, 134 accidental gun deaths”. This becomes a pattern throughout the writing, it is annoying to keep reading the same things over and over. The author I believe was trying to pound it into the reader's mind, but he took the wrong route to do so and in result lowered the quality of the