The gun violence would be reduced‚ gun restrictions have and always existed. Americans and people with guns support new gun restrictions‚ the Second Amendment protect individuals rights to own their own gun for personal defense for protection of their children from invaders coming in their homes. A Pew Foundation found that 79% male gun owners and 80% female gun owners said that having a gun in their home made them feel more safe in their own home plus with the 64% of people with friends living
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massacre President Barack Obama quoted "There is a gun for roughly every man‚ woman and child in America. So how can you‚ with a straight face‚ make the argument that more guns will make us safer?” Gun violence in our country is an immense crisis. Deaths and injuries due to pathetic guns is one of the greatest threats to our friends‚ family and all Americans. How can anyone in their right minds stand for guns when 30‚000 Americans lose their lives to guns every year. Why should we have to live in fear
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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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Similarly‚ a year later Slovak conducted another study on gun violence and children. This study examine the effects that gun violence exposure have on youth mental health and how trauma is associated with gun violence exposure (Slovak‚ 2002). According to research gun statistics‚ in the United States violent injury and death from a gun affect children and adolescents in urban settings (Slovak‚ 2002). The researchers investigate violence exposure and its relationship to mental health risk and they
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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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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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Gun violence dates back many years‚ around the time gun powder was first being produced in the 13th century. The first handgun was created in 1364 and was named the “hand cannon” (Hallowell 1)‚ the name was self-explanatory. Nowadays hand guns are being produced that are smaller than the average persons’ palm‚ which is named the Swiss mini guns‚ these guns are being banned due to their extreme concealment capabilities. Guns revolutionized the world and brought high praises‚ until citizens started
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Reasons for Youth Gun Violence In 1988‚ handguns killed 7 people in Great Britain‚ 13 in Australia‚ 8 in Canada‚ and 8‚915 in the United States. Between 1973 and 1992‚ the number of privately-owned firearms in the US increased 73%; from 122 million to nearly 222 million. (Brennen and Polsby 1). These figures are shocking and there doesn ’t seem to be a solution. Gun control is a problem that our country has got to face. The reasons for gun violence are complex and apparently deep-rooted with an
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Gathering Evidence on Gun Violence Gathering Evidence Subject 1: Impact of laws on gun control in reducing gun violence in the United States. Source: The Effectiveness of Legislation Controlling Gun Usage: A Holistic Measure of Gun Control Legislation by Ik-Whan G. Kwon and Daniel W. Back in The American Journal of Economics and Sociology‚ volume 64‚ issue 2‚ April 2005‚ pages 533-537 Evaluation: 1. Authority-10 The author Ik-Whan G. Kwan is a professor of Decision Sciences at John Cook
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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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