Mass shootings have become a problem in the United States and the only way to decrease the number of incidents is to enforce stricter gun laws. In the recent years gun laws have come under fire for a variety of reasons that all stems back to the tolerance for high caliber and magazine weapons in our country. Assault rifles and other rapid-fire weapons have become all too easy to acquire in our nation and I believe the citizens of the United States have begun to realize this. Consumers have found
birth. Guns have been viewed since the beginning as a symbol of strength and power as a right that every American has to defend him or herself against enemies but in the past twenty years gun violence has changed to mass shootings where in the past it would be single isolated incidents there are many examples now of how damaging gun violence can really be. America has one of the highest gun violence rates in the world 3.85 deaths due to gun violence per 100,000 people in 2016. We have more guns than
Reflection on Gun Shooting on American Campus Nowadays the campus violence problem becomes a hot topic which arouses more and more people to be concerned about campus gun shooting. People in the world have heard and seen this kind of tragedy over and over in the news. The Safety of United States schools was seriously questioned by the world when in the news all we heard about was there was another shooting in an American high school or university. According to “School Shooting Statistics” which
throughout the United States and the world is guns. As American citizens, we have a constitutional right to own a fire arm. But why is a gun so important and why is it such a huge part of the United States division of its people? The division starts with people using this Second Amendment to harm people. In recent years, mass shootings have become the norm for the United States and that outcome is not the purpose of the Second Amendment. These mass shooting happen everywhere from movie theatres to concert
President Barack Obamas wants to change the current gun policy here in the states. Gun related deaths and injuries have been happening for too long on a regular basis. Obamas plan is to focus on a few topics, which is gun sales, mental health and school safety. Changes are needed Last year around 13.286 people suffered from a gun related death. This includes mass shootings which occurred 372 times that year. We have to stop whatever we are doing and just take a brief second to think about one thing
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 Gun Violence Achieve states, “there have been more than 1,500 mass shootings in America since Sandy Hook in December 2012”. It appears that America has been in a constant state of grief, prayer,
heaven compared to the problem that has been recurring time and time again- gun violence. In 2017 alone, 273 mass shooting have taken place between January 1st and October 2nd (A mass shooting involves four or more people injured or killed in a single event at the same time and location (Gun Violence Archive)). That’s 273 shootings in a 364-day year- looking at our year right now, that’s 75% of it tramatized by mass shootings. That is why we, the United States as a whole, needs to work together to put
Ysidro, California. Carlos is the youngest victim to gun violence till this date. His death is the result of the killer having easy access to a semiautomatic pistol and a shotgun (Berkowitz et al, 2017). Ryan Frazier, the 21-year old husband of Emily Frazier, shot himself with a semiautomatic gun he bought from a gas station in November 2008 after confronting his teenage nightmare for a lawsuit. He was molested by a priest and his first time using a gun was to end his own life, despite having a whole
Guns and Firearms “The Orlando attack was by far the deadliest shooting in U.S. history (49 killed), and it is not even 10 years removed from the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre (32 killed), and the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting (27 killed)”(Willingham). The Orlando, Virginia Tech, and Sandy Hook shootings were some of the worst memories America has to offer. Mass shootings have taken place across the U.S. for many years. The United States is still facing too many conflicts involving shootings; these issues
school with a gun and