Gun Violence in America Since the inception of firearms‚ people have been wielding all types of arms and ammunitions against each other in order to injure or kill their opponent. In the modern world‚ this violence is unwarranted and goes against everything society stands for. Nowhere else is gun violence most prevalent than in the United States of America. Because of the Constitution‚ Americans have had the right to bear arms since 1776. When the Constitution was drafted‚ the term “arms” meant nothing
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people killed and 4‚453 wounded by gun-violence” (Vox). These records have been being recorded since the mass shooting that took place in Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012. It’s really hard to ignore how public gun-violence when it continuously takes place in the United States. There have been mass shootings killing a lot of people‚ like the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting‚ as well as the 2016 Orlando Nightclub Shooting‚ but there has also been gun-violence that hasn’t killed masses of people
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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
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Let the Mentally Ill Buy Guns." The New York Times. The New York Times‚ 15 Feb. 2017. Web. 28 Feb. 2017. Gun control is the most ongoing controversial issue within the world today. When President Obama was in office‚ with the help of his administration‚ they proposed and set forth a rule that prevented the mentally ill from buying guns. The Social Security rule was put forth an effort for better enforcement of the existing laws that barred the mentally ill from getting guns that were hard to enforce
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Youth and Guns: Violence in America Gun violence in the United States has become an epidemic. From the Civil War to the present‚ 567‚000 Americans have died in combat; but since 1920‚ over 1 million American civilians have been killed by firearms (Children’s Defense Fund‚ p.15). For thousands of teens‚ death from gun violence is the end of the pipeline. In 2007‚ 3‚042 children and teens died from gunfire in the United States—eight every day—as a result of homicide‚ suicide or accidental shootings
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38-caliber gun and opened fire. Gillom’s shots fatally wounded Gibson and left Lee with a non-fatal gunshot wound to the neck (Washington Ceasefire‚ 2011 pg 1). The shooting in Harlem‚ Georgia sparked national attention as one of the first high school shootings and added to the alarmingly high rates of gun violence by adolescents during the 1990s. According to the Virginia Youth Violence Project‚ forty-two homicides took place in American schools in 1993 (2009 pg/par). While the rate of gun violence in American
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Gun violence is any act committed by the use of a firearm that causes bodily injury or fatality. Gun violence in the United States has become increasingly evident and has led to mass tragedy nationwide‚ affecting all walks of life. It has had a devastating effect on communities throughout the country and has resulted in numerous injuries and deaths. Within the past decade‚ there have been more than “100‚000 people killed as a result of gun violence” in America‚ and millions more have been victims
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other high-income nations‚ such as Germany‚ Australia‚ and Canada‚ researchers with The American Journal of Medicine found that the gun deaths on US soil account for 82% of all the gun deaths in these countries combined. In other words‚ 82 out of 100 deaths caused by gun violence in 23 of the wealthiest‚ most developed nations in the world occur in the United States (Preidt). Whether you label this a public health problem or a mental health problem‚ a legal problem or a public safety problem‚
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Gun Violence Each day approximately thirty-two people are killed by another person through gun violence‚ fifty-one-commit suicide with a gun‚ and forty-five people are shot on accident. The availability of guns is the leading cause to gun violence; In order to decrease crime rates the Government must stop loopholes on gun availability‚ and increase regulations on background checks. The main reasons for all of this gun violence are the works of loopholes: opportunities‚ the blame are on loopholes
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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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