Argumentative Essay: Stephen Paddock And Gun Violence

On October 1st, gunman Stephen Paddock opened fire on a crowd of concertgoers at the Route 91 Harvest music festival in Las Vegas, Nevada. In the aftermath of the shooting, nearly 60 people were dead and over 450 were wounded. According to witnesses, Paddock fired for ten to fifteen minutes. How was he able to cause that much damage, one of the deadliest shootings in American history, in so short a time? In addition to having over 20 guns in his possession, Paddock also used a device called a “bump stock” to fire at least 12 of his guns faster. The aftermath of the shooting has led to a wave of new proposed legislation relating to these “bump stocks.”

Sunday, October 1, 2017, thousands of people gathered at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas for a country music festival. At 10:08pm, gunman, Stephen Paddock, opened fire from the hotel just above the field aiming at the thousands of innocent people. Paddock fired constant rounds for about 10-15 minutes, taking 58 innocent lives, injuring over 500, and then taking his own life. This is now considered the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

There were also many targets that Stephen Paddock shot at. He fired at jet fuel tanks that were near by. He also fired at police officers as he was wanting to hold them back from coming up to his room. To go along with those two, obviously, he fired into the Route 91 crowd of about 20,000 people. In total, Stephen Paddock was firing in the direction of the crowd for nine to eleven

Within the extreme amount of mass shootings every year in the United States; Some we may not even hear about, and some may be more severe than others. The most recent severe mass shooting, occurred on October 1, 2017 in Las Vegas, NV. During a concert, where tens of thousands of people attended. Everyone in attendance was planning to have a good night. Of course, why would anyone expect someone to open fire at a large number of innocent people? That question remains unanswered.

Mass shootings have been around since the 1980s but the number of mass shootings is increasing. Until 2010 mass shootings happened 6 months apart from each other but now they are happening only two months apart. According to the article One Mass Shooting Every Day there has been an average of only 72 days between mass shootings during the period of 2010 to 2017, while this rate was 162 days from 2000 to 2010. One of the most recent mass shooting was the incident that happened in Las Vegas. On October of this year, a gunman opened fire on a crowd of people at a music festival on the Las Vegas Strip, Nevada. A night that was spouse to be fun and joyful, where innocent people were just having a good time and enjoying the moment turned into one of the horrific nights of the history. This incident was the deadliest mass shooting in the US that has been committed by one individual. The shooter was 64-year-old Stephen Paddock, who shoot at the crowd from the 32nd floor of a nearby hotel, leaving 58 people dead and 546 people injured. Twenty-three firearms were found in his 32nd-floor suite. One big question that comes up is that why was he allowed to purchase not two, not three, not ten but twenty-three firearms? He was just a real estate investor with a bad habit of gambling, he did not have the need to own

Although guns are a major problem in the US, it’s important to remember that our nation’s trigger-happy citizens tend to be a problem as well. Guns are inanimate objects with no mind or will of their own. The person that picks up the gun knows who and what will be their target. When taking account of the fact that most of school shooters have had something mentally wrong with them. Speaking on the matter, 2016 GOP Presidential Candidate and self-made billionaire Donald Trump stated that this isn't “a gun problem, but a mental problem” (Scott 2). However Trump is over simplifying a rather complex problem. Mental illness includes depression, bipolar disorder and anxiety, all things that may not be noticeable by someone deciding on whether or

Many believe that as the year progresses, our lives become more dangerous for us to be a part of. However, Zachary Crockett states that the beginning is bad, and “In the first 24 hours of the new year, 264 separate incidents of gun violence happened across the United States” (Crockett 1). He is helping us to illustrate we struggle throughout the entire year, and we get attacked at the times which we least expect them to happen. In the infographic that is being shown, Chicago was reported to have “24 shootings, leaving 3 dead and 28 injured”, leading us to the idea that some towns are at more risk than others (Crockett 1). He is leading us to believe that some cities, like Chicago, face a better likliness of shootings occurring, then in some other cities. There needs to be a better handle of guns in this area, and take caution so that many do not get hurt. When trying to depict other important details, Crockett helps explain that “every day, and average of 112 people are killed or injured by gun violence in America” (Crockett 1). There needs to be a tighter grip on not only the actions of the people in the country, but the weapon. Guns cause a lot of stress and havoc across the country, and if we could allow ourselves to overcome this, then we would be helping ourselves out.

Since the late 1980’s, gun violence has been growing into a national problem. Gun violence is quickly spreading across the nation and onto news broadcast stations. However, it has not been taken seriously until it did become a nationwide event. After a police officer knocks on your door to disclose the situation regarding your son or daughter was murdered by a gunshot wound, a mother grieves, and cries out,” Not my child!” Families of victims never want to expect to see gun violence overtake their family. Families demand answers and ask,” Why would they want to harm my child?” Over time, we have seen numerous victims, advocates, group leaders and survivors of anti-gun organizations attempt to raise awareness towards the issue of gun violence.

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

On October 1st at about 10:08 p.m., 64-year-old Stephen Paddock started rapidly shooting at an outdoor country music concert. The Route 91 Harvest festival was brought to a horrifying stop as the gunman opened fire at the ground of around 22,000 people. Police later found the gunman dead in his hotel room on the 32nd floor the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino. This is now the deadliest shooting in modern US history, previously the shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida was the deadliest with 49 people killed. We have learned that 58 people are dead and more than 500 people were injured and rushed to hospitals. Police believe that the gunman acted alone. When police searched Paddock’s hotel room, they found around 19 firearms, explosives,

Last weekend a man posted up on the thirty-second floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas. He stocked piled twenty-three weapons and hundreds of rounds of ammunition. On Sunday, October 1, he opened fire on an outdoor country music festival, raining bullets for fifteen minutes on the terrified crowd of Americans. Fifty-eight people were murdered and more than five-hundred wounded. This was an act of violence far greater than anywhere else in the modern world, in fact it was the deadliest mass shooting in American history. I have been shaken to the core knowing that my cousin and three high school friends attended this concert that night and miraculously made it out alive.

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

As of 2016 there have been a total of 46,074 incidents total with guns, 11,828 of them ending in death. Gun violence has steadily increased whether it be with suicide, children, teens, gang violence, or mass shootings. It has come into question as to what or who is to blame and America cannot seem to come to a consensus and it has driven a wedge between its people. Gun violence is nothing new but it is taking more lives each and every day; If we do not make more of an effort to lessen gun violence then it will become more of a problem then it already is and continue to put people in danger.

You are home alone late at night and you hear the front door slam open. You hear footsteps up the stairs getting closer and closer. You are very scared and do not know what to do, so you call 911, as you are calling your door swings open and the assailant is pointing a gun at you. It is too late; by the time the police come the assailant has already taken your life. If you had a gun and reached for it while you called 911, you might still be here today. That is the debate here in the United States and will continue to be for many years to come. The decision to arm citizens with firearms is heavily discussed on a daily basis with numerous different opinions and anecdotes. The scene I have previously described does happen and is a primary example of why citizens should be armed. This example is just one of the reasons citizens in America should own guns. It would be a much safer country if law- abiding citizens were armed as well as the criminals. Not allowing us to own firearms is a direct invasion of the Second Amendment to the Constitution, a diminishment of freedom we have earned. In addition, Criminals will continue to own guns whether it is illegal or not regardless of the consequences. If those are not eye-opening enough, the ability to own guns will cause more people to be trained so that larger attacks do not occur. If gun owners had been present in some of the past shootings, things might have turned out differently.

At a country music festival in Las Vegas, thousands of people were enjoying the calm atmosphere, until a gunman fired into the crowd from the 32nd floor of his hotel room,