Gun violence in Canada and America are often compared‚ both countries allow citizens to own guns to a certain extent. Michael Moore who stars in “Bowling for Columbine” talks about how the two countries are so similar but gun violence isn’t a problem in Canada. Within the movie‚ Michael goes house to house in a canadian city called toronto unlocking people’s front doors‚ after hearing multiple responses he discovered that most Canadians aren’t worried about intruders. The news and media do not betray
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Gun Violence in The United States INTRODUCTION Since 1982‚ at least sixty-two mass shootings have occurred‚ thirty-two of them since 2006. (Aronsen). Jared Loughner was sentenced to life in prison after shooting nineteen people in January of 2011. Last July‚ fifty-eight people were shot and twelve killed while watching the new Batman movie in a theater in Colorado. In December‚ twenty-six people were murdered‚ including twenty first-graders‚ in a Connecticut elementary school (Follman). The issue
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The anti-gun violence movement is a prime example of a social movement trying to bring social change. Social change by definition is any shift in previously existing social structures‚ institutions‚ value systems‚ or rules of behavior. A cause of social change is the desire by some people to address a problem in society‚ like injustice or inequality. The anti-gun violence movement has a goal of reducing gun violence due to the effects of gun violence on peoples lives and communities. People bring
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inner urge to cause and inflict pain onto others. One way is via the usage of guns. The usage of guns in America is not an eerie or foreign concept to America. In fact gun violence can be depicted as a culture in America. More than 31 000 people per year in America die from gunshot wounds (Hopkins‚ 2012) However the usage of mass gun violence is not just
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International Stakeholder report on the review of the United States of America in the Universal Periodic Review of the United Nations Human Rights Council. Use of force by police officers and gun violence robs its victims of the most basic right to life and personal security. The Issue of innocent deaths and gun violence has received a great deal of attention in recent years in the United States of America. Excessive use of force by law enforcement officers‚ Amnesty International views this as a violation
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Gun violence has increasingly become the most important ethical issue in the continental United States. Guns are being abused or over used‚ more often than not for the use of protection. It is understandable that the 2nd Amendment allows every American to have the “right to bear arms.” However‚ people are using it to their advantage. Within the past five years‚ there have been many gun related crimes. The number of victims recorded are mainly children. Children and adolescents are being affected
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Gun violence in Arizona. "There is someone killed by a gun almost every day in Arizona. Our state ranks as the 11th-worst for gun deaths and Phoenix’s level of homicides is equivalent to Mexico’s." These are Congressional candidate Ruben Gallego’s words. Arizona has been suffering for decades from gun violence‚ it became one of the most dangerous states in the United States. There are many causes behind these massive deaths every year‚ owning and carrying guns in Arizona is allowed which makes the
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Gun violence has impacted so many communities across the country. Gun violence is one of the top ten causes of death in the United States. During the past decade in America more than 100‚000 people have been killed due to gun violence. Close to half a million more people have fallen victim to assaults‚ robberies‚ mass shootings and other crimes that involved a gun. These tragedies were committed by criminals who should’ve never had access to a gun in the first place. In order to reduce gun violence
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recent years there has been a substantial amount of gun violence‚ especially toward children and college campuses. One main issue I have with our government that impacts me as an individual and student is gun legislation laws. There have been too frequent amounts of mass shootings in the last two years in populated areas such as movie theatres‚ shopping malls‚ and education institutions‚ which should be addressed to those in power. People seem to get guns fairly easy whereas requirements to obtain a driver’s
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Gun violence in the US caused thousands of injuries and deaths yearly. In 2013‚ the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention stated that firearms were used in 84‚258 nonfatal injuries and 11‚208 deaths from homicide‚ 21‚175 by suicide‚ 505 deaths from unintentional discharge‚ plus 281 deaths that were labelled as undetermined intent‚ which all totalled for 33‚169 deaths related to firearms. Gun control laws do not prevent criminals from obtaining guns or breaking the laws. Criminals can obtain
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