Cause and Effect Essay The United States has the 26th highest rate of gun violence in the world (Washington Post‚ 2012). It accounted for 70 percent of all homicides and less than 10 percent of all nonfatal violent crimes from 1993 to 2011 (Bureau of Justice Statistics‚ 2013). So how will the United States overcome the battle to end gun violence? The United States Government‚ worried parents and various anti-gun groups have always scrutinized how to fix the problem. What causes violent acts
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Gun violence There are many kind of violence in the world‚ and the most common and deadly is gun-related violence. Not surprisingly‚ gun violence is one of the major public concerns in the American society. Interestingly‚ gun violence is also most common in urban areas and it is in close conjunction with youth activity and gang violence. There are many violent crime related to guns and the presence of guns often would trigger many violent crimes. Since 1865‚ President Abraham Lincoln‚ President
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The crime in chicago has increasing over time. Chicago has become significant issue due to violence. When I was rise in the neighborhood of englewood‚They teach us how to steal ‚lie‚and cheat. The story I choice was very interesting to me because I move to this neighborhood couple years back . I love this neighborhood.I learned so much from the Gresham neighborhood. This story was about two teengare who was shot and killed. At 8 p.m. the teens walked into a store in the 1300 block of West 87th Street
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Gun control is a highly debated topic in the United States. This major debate can be divided into two stances‚ Republican and Democratic. A big part of gun control is the second amendment. The debate on gun control has been based on the second amendment. Most Republicans favor the second amendment and against gun control. Some democrats want or are in favor of gun control and don’t agree with the second amendment.The second amendment states‚ “A well regulated Militia‚ being necessary to the security
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According to Gun Violence Archive; a non-profit organization who utilizes its resources to gather statistics to report back to the public to ignite awareness‚ has recently reported the latest numbers of 2015. It is important to emphasis that GNA is not of support of gun possession but neither deflects from the functionality of gun use in America. In 2015‚ there have been more than 50‚000 incidents of gun violence. This number is inclusive of homicides‚ gang assaults‚ self defense‚ and accidental
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"Guns don’t kill people‚ people kill people‚" is an expression often quoted by those who support the right to freely carry firearms. For many years‚ organizations such as the National Rifle Association (NRA) have pointed to the high rate of gun violence in the United States and compared it with the low rates in Europe; this comparison was done in order to stress their point that gun violence is a cultural/societal problem that should not impede anyone’s right to own firearms. Those who advocate gun
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Americans seem to have a love for guns. In the United States gun ownership and gun control are huge political and social issues. Although there are many Americans that would argue that guns ownership is wrong and that there should be stricter gun control laws in the country‚ there are many more that believe the opposite to be true. The United States‚ with less than 5 percent of the world’s population‚ has about 35–50 percent of the world’s civilian-owned guns‚ according to a report by the Switzerland-based
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A lot of people lose their lives because of gun violence in America. This problem is an ongoing debate and the people suffer everyday in United States. Guns are a problem if people don’t know how to use it carefully. In most of the cases guns are legally purchased but some people that are mentally ill took advantage of it using it to harm other people. Mass shooting that took place in Las Vegas last month‚ where the gunman attacked large crowds of people while they were at the concert from his hotel
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rationalize the need for more guns‚ an accurate tally of the number of guns in circulation is in order. The United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is a federally run program that protects American consumers against unreasonable risk of deaths or injuries associated with consumer products. The CPSC was created in the 1970’s along with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) as a protection from faulty and unsafe products
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Health Association. Pence argued that blaming an inanimate object such as gun for gun violence is absurd. He believes that gun violence is not because of the lack of gun control law‚ but because of the psychological and social problem rooted deeper within our society. He talked about D.C and NYC‚ two cities with the strictest gun control. In theory‚ they should have the lowest gun violence‚ but both cities still have the highest gun related injuries. Pence concluded that AHA should address and improve
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