Argumentative Essay On Gun Violence

In America, guns have done great harm to society. Guns have been culprits to many different types of shootings such as Charleston, which was a shooting in a church, Sandy Hook, which was responsible for the deaths of twenty young children and six adult staff members, and the shooting in Aurora, Colorado during a midnight premiere of The Dark Knight Rises which resulted in the deaths of twelve innocent people. These are just three we listed here. How many times have there been news of another shooting? It’s like, everytime we turn on the news, we see another shooting that occurred. It doesn’t take a lot for one to notice that the current gun laws haven’t been working. The evidence which we all see daily in the news

Gun violence has been around for centuries and there have been many mass shootings, homicides and suicides. There is always the argument on “do guns kill people” or “do people kill people”? What people really need to be looking at is the problem which is people stocking up on guns and not knowing how to properly handle them and all the mass shootings that are taking place. As a country, people need to be coming up with solutions instead of doing nothing.

Gun violence has been a problem for quite a long time in America and it can't go on. Gun violence needs to come to a stop, but what is going to happen to bring it to an end. Many lives are being taken every year from high powered guns and what can happen to prevent it. There aren't many things that can prevent these things from happening, but it can be stopped.

As the daughter of a victim of gun violence I know what it is like to hear about this rising issue and instantly feel pained. Gun violence not only harms those that have been injured or killed, but it takes a lot from close relatives and friends. Within in the past few years it has become normal to hear about this act of violence occurring in America. According to GunViolenceArchive.org, there have been a total of 14,259 incidents in 2016 thus far. This is shocking because the year just began a few months ago and this number is extremely high. The big question is why is this number so high? The gun violence rate in America has inclined over the years and if nothing is being set in place to stop or control it, it will only get worse as the years continue. The Washington Post’s article, “Gun Violence in America is out of Control” is simply stating that the gun violence in America is out of hand and as citizens we need to be aware of this issue and keep that in mind when we are voting for our next president. (Washington Post) In Vox.com’s article, “Gun violence in America, in 17 maps and charts” express that America is one of the most violent countries in the world and gun violence is happening more frequently because of the easy access of guns. (Vox) Both sources recognize that gun violence in America has reached an all-time high, but I agree with Vox’s argument because

On December 14, 2012, an armed staff member at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT. stopped a gunman in his tracks and saved the lives of hundreds of students and teachers. Imagine if this had been the headline on the news, or on the front page of every newspaper. Would it have garnered as much attention as the tragic situation that actually unfolded when an armed gunman stormed the elementary school and committed the deadliest mass school shooting in America’s history? Would gun control activists have come out in droves to protest and feign a need for new gun laws? Would the distraught families of the slain students and teachers be paraded in front of the media and invited to the White House to be the “face” and reason of why new laws

The attempted assassination of former President Ronald Reagan was a horrifying day for many people that were attending his speech; sadly James Brady was at the wrong place on the wrong day. Reagan was not severely injured but Brady certainly was, Brady ended up in critical condition! After recovering from the gunshot, Brady became a serious advocate for an anti-weapon organization, which is why there is currently an organization named after him. The lack of gun control is the main leading effects from gun violence, whether you are at school or sleeping at night, there is someone getting killed or hurt from some type of firearm. Guns tend to be used mainly for harming someone, whether it is self-defense or purposely. Plus gun trafficking has been increasing due to the lack of gun control. Gun violence is pretty much everywhere, and the Brady Campaign statistics show that “On average 31 Americans are murdered with guns every day and 151 are treated for a gun assault in an emergency room” (1). Although the statistics are made from an anti-weapons group, which might be a little bias, the statistics are still accurate enough to get the point across. The only way any of this happened was due to amount of weapons that are in America, it would be less likely for someone to cause a shooting if there were not as many weapons being produced. More and more weapons are being made by the second, due to the continuation of this, people will continue to be hurt because the common saying is

Gun violence is the most urgent social crisis in America at this current moment because there has been many mass shootings at concerts, churches, and schools with many lives being taken away from one single men that acts like a God simply because he holds a license that allows him to purchase guns that are not necessary but only for military purpose. According to Gun Violence Archive website that provides statistics about gun violence states that there has been “53,772 total number of accidents that involved guns with only killing 13,555 people”. The saddest part is 645 children of the age of 0-11 are being killed with these machines. These children were taken their right to live for no reason. Statistics say every day on average from all ages die which are 315 people in America are shot in murders, assaults, suicides and suicide attempts, unintentional shootings, and police intervention. “Every day 93 people die from gun violence, 32 are murdered, 58 die from suicide, 1 killed unintentionally, 1 killed by legal intervention, 1 died but was intent unknown” according to Gun Violence Achieve statistic. Just two months ago on October the first I and America woke up to the news that had been a mass shooting in Las Vegas at concert killing 59 and injuring 441 people becoming the second largest massacre in the US history since

There are tens of thousands of people killed due to gun violence. It’s about time we find a solution to this problem. More than 300 million guns are sold in the u.s. And that’s way to much. The more guns that are sold, the more violence caused. If there is more violence, how could America be “great” again!?

The media and the government have all been shining a cascade of unfortunate lies on suppressors. All these tragic shootings have all come to one unfortunate conclusion: firearms are bad and must be restricted or even banned. The truth is, these events haven’t even had suppressors involved in them. This is quite an unfortunate thing since suppressors can do so much good in all aspects of their use. Suppressors are a device used to reduce the decibel level of the rifle's muzzle blast, through a system of baffles that redirect the air coming out of the barrel reducing the noise output. They are threaded onto the end of a rifle, shotgun, or pistol barrel. Suppressors should be taken off the NFA, the National Firearms Act, which is an act passed

Unfortunately, even with set restrictions, gun violence is still prevalent in American society. Statistics vary, but NBC states that guns kill an average of eighty-seven people per day in America, most commonly from suicide, second from homicide, and third by accident (Just the Facts). Clearly, the United States has a problem. The Pew Research Center found that "Compared with 1993, the peak of U.S. gun homicides, the firearm homicide rate was 49 percent lower in 2010,

A body, limp and lifeless, holds to the ground as the United States has again lost another American citizen. Tears roll down the cheeks of mothers, fathers, and community members as gun violence manages to claim victories over the lives of many young people. No longer do the ideas of freedom truly ring from sea to sea as many Americans are suffering over the controversial issue of open-carry gun laws. Rather than equal gun occurrences throughout the country, the issues of gun violence are said to be related to race. According to John Blake of CNN News,“A black person is 6.5 times more likely to become a murder victim than someone who is white; and 92% of black murder victims are killed by members of their own race” (Blake). The controversial laws regarding guns in

First and foremost, there have been many deaths caused by guns in America. “America leads the industrialized world in children killed by guns, in teenagers who take their own or others' lives with firearms, and in handgun injuries and deaths” (Torr). Firearms tend to increase the rate of death. Actions need to be taken seriously on how these weapons are really affecting our country. Guns are honestly getting placed in the wrong hands and it would do society well if we

In the past few weeks, my class has been working with the subject: gun violence. What does gun violence mean? It means gun related violence is violence committed with the use of a gun. It can happen everywhere. In a school too. It's called school shooting. It has happened several times before. Here is a little story where a girl shoot students on a Monday because she didn't like Mondays. It was January 29, 1979, in San Diego in California. The woman's name is Brenda Spencer. She hurt eight kids and a police officer. She killed two students. When a reporter asked her why she killed them she said she didn't like Mondays.

Gun violence cost each person in the United States roughly $564 and the US government $5.5 billion in lost tax revenue. A woman’s risk of being murdered increases 500% if a gun is present during a domestic dispute. 89% of unintentional shooting deaths of children occur in the home - and most of these deaths occur when children are playing with a loaded gun in their parents absence. Gun control laws should be passed in the US because Guns are rarely used in self defense, more gun control leads to fewer suicides, and gun control laws would reduce gun deaths.

Widespread gun violence has a tremendous impact on American citizens’ opinion on gun control. There has been a great deal of gun violence within the United States for decades. The implementation of successful, tolerable gun control has been halted by the debate between gun advocates and victims of gun violence. Law-makers must find a way to keep American citizens safe while also abiding by the 2nd amendment. Mallory Simon, writer and senior producer of online presentations for CNN, reported on this highly controversial topic. Her report came shortly after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, where “20 children and 6 adults were gunned down in Newtown, Connecticut” (Simon 2013) and New York passed a major gun control law (NBC News 2012). In Simon’s article “Gun Debate: Where is the Middle Ground?”, she recaps the devastating moments Amardeep Kaleka experienced during an active shooting involving his own father. Within the article, Kaleka addresses the battle between gun owners and gun control advocates. Where is neutral territory to accommodate both parties? When presented on CNN, the article shed some light on the issue for many Americans as it presented arguments of common ground for gun control.