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 to be committed with a gun? In order to find out
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Chicago Gun Violence Chicago is always in the news nationwide and some people might wonder why. Chicago is well known for its crime. The city has been struggling with this problem for a while. The biggest problem that plagues Chicago is its gang and gun violence because too many people are dying due to it. Chicago has alarmingly high statistics when it comes to gun violence in comparison to other major cities. Although the crime rate is slowly dropping‚ too many teenagers and young children
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firearms were due to mental illness. The number of guns entering the United States continues to grow with approximately two hundred million privately owned firearms in the United States as of 2000 and more than seven million added to this number every year. It is easy to purchase a gun without having to go through background checks. Guns sold privately or at gun shows do not fall under the federal government’s gun regulations. About forty percent of gun sales fell through this “loophole” where private
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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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Two: Laws Pertaining to Adolescents and Gun Violence Richard Moreno The University of Southern Mississippi Article Two: A Critical Reflection Exploring a different perspective on gun violence by adolescents‚ Richard E. Redding and Sarah M. Shalf explore the legal approaches for curbing student’s use of guns in their article The Legal Context of School Violence: The Effectiveness of Federal‚ State‚ and Local Law Enforcement Efforts to Reduce Gun Violence in Schools. This article not only examines
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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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According to Fagan (2002)‚ studied the policing of gun and youth violence‚ within eight cities. The article evaluates the eight cities’ policing innovations against gun violence‚ while concentrating on the three different approaches: reciprocal control‚ punitive legal control and “soft” legal control. Reciprocal control refers to making police and community groups mutually reinforcing in regards to crime control. Punitive legal control refers to crime control through vigorous law enforcement and
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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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Gun Control and Gun Violence Gun Control and Gun Violence “The Federal Bureau Investigation Uniform Crime Report involving firearms showed to be at sixty-seven point seven percent of the nation’s murders‚ forty-one point three percent of robberies‚ and twenty-one point two percent of aggravated assaults…From January 2012 to June 2012 there was an increase of one point nine percent violent crimes reported.” (FBI) There should be a balance between Gun Control and Gun Violence. Gun Violence will
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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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