Essay On Gun Violence In Schools

In a speech regarding the Charleston, South Carolina shooting in June of 2015, President Obama stated, “More than 11,000 people were killed by gun violence in 2013 alone.” After the Sandy Hook shooting, in Newtown, Connecticut with a death toll of 26, Congress has still failed to pass these regulations which 90% of Americans wish to have. While tightening the gun control may not guarantee the complete absence of mass shootings or gun violence and crime, it has definately been shown to significantly reduce these rates. America is in need of tighter gun control laws because current regulations do not deter violence and crime, and the interpretation of the constitutional right has since been misconstrued.

Sandy Hook Elementary. Aurora, Colorado. San Bernardino, California. Las Vegas, Nevada. Orlando, Florida. (Words with Negative Connotation) These are just some of the biggest mass shootings that have swept America in the past few years. Hundreds of lives are lost each year to gun related violence in the United States alone. Gun control has been a topic in our country since our founding fathers adopted the second amendment to the US constitution. Although recently controversy has sparked to an all-new extent in America due to the recent spike in mass shootings and gun related homicides. So many families and loves ones are affected each year in the United States because of gun related violence and other mass killing events, because of these events gun control laws need to be revamped and strengthened in American in order to protect the citizens.

There should be guidelines set to insure the safety of our society before the gun is purchased. There should be a safety test given before the gun could be purchased. A test to show that the owners know how to properly use the gun. It is a requirement to take a test to show your ability before you get your drivers license, why not a before you buy a gun? There should also be a class taught teaching the proper storage of a gun. Teaching to keep the gun in a locked cabinet with the key in separate area. And the three to five day waiting period should remain.

Everyday 93 Americans are killed by guns. Whether it is due to homicide or suicide, it does not matter. At the end of the day gun violence is increasing exponentially. In numerous states, gun laws have been placed in the hopes of reducing gun violence. But now many people believe that gun violence should be treated as a public health problem. I for one feel that gun violence should be put in the category of public health. Every year more than 30,000 people are victims to gun related incidents. It has become such an issue that gun violence is causing more deaths than some life threatening diseases.

This story is incredibly heartbreaking to me. The massive shootings continue to become more and more prevalent. I fear that the nation is become desensitized by these horrific shootings because they are almost becoming the new norm. Obviously people continue to disagree how we should handle events like this, more specifically, gun control. I’m not sure what the answer should be either but we cannot continue with what laws or regulations that are currently being employed. They simply are not working. How many more lives is it going to take to effect change?

The issue with gun control goes back to April 16th, 2007 when a 23-year-old student killed 32 people at Virginia Tech. One of the biggest and scariest shooting at Sandy Hook elementary shocked

As of November 29, 2016, there have been a total of 13,528 deaths and 27,894 injuries in the US that were caused by gun violence this year. This is an alarming statistic, especially when you consider that 354 mass shootings have contributed to the body count. 1952 of these deaths have been labeled accidental, which is almost as startling as the death toll itself. (@GunDeaths) Gun violence is a problem that is not going to go away unless there is action taken to combat it. A lack of gun education, weak gun regulation, and government indifference towards gun violence in the country has allowed gun violence to become a bit out of control in the modern era, but with proper gun education for students and an effective government strategy to reduce gun violence, we can reduce gun violence in the US rapidly.

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

In fact, there is no federally mandated waiting period to purchase and possess a gun. Furthermore, only five states have laws requiring a waiting period on firearm purchases. As stated by The Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, “federal law allows a dealer to deliver a firearm to a purchaser as soon as a background check is completed, or after three business days, even if a background check has not been completed.” Each year the FBI estimates that this lack of a waiting period leads to over 3,000 guns being sold to people who are ineligible to have them. In turn, the FBI refers those 3,000 plus cases to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms to retrieve those ill-gotten weapons. With a more rigorous application process and a longer waiting period, these errors could be greatly lessened saving taxpayer money and potentially saving

Did you know there have been fifty mass murders/attempted mass murders at a school since Columbine and one hundred and forty-one people have lost their lives in these fifty mass murders? All together, there have been two hundred and seventy shootings of any kind at a school, sixty-eight percent of these shooters got their weapons from relatives at home. In the recent events, you mentioned Nikolas Cruz was “mentally disturbed” but did you know the mentally ill only conduct about one percent of all mass shootings? He was able to purchase an assault rifle at the age of eighteen, but do we really need assault rifles, military grade weapons, in our homes? In the hands of United States Citizens? We need control on our guns, that

POP, 1. POP, 2 . POP, 3. It was at that moment that an american terrorist finished his magazine of bullets that he had aimed at all of children and teacher in sight. His assault rifles have firing off at least 20 bullets before he had to reload. The children scattering, hiding and cowering in fear as he began to reload and search for more victims. This has happened one to many time in the last 10 years of american history. Some of the biggest incidences being Columbine, Sandy Hook, Virginia Tech & the Parkland High School Shooting. However no changes were made to our current gun laws to stop this from happening again. The people of this country are tired of seeing innocent children being dragged away in body bags. Two-thousand eighteen is the year that the children and adults alike took to the streets and

First, guns are way too easy to buy in America. Private gun sellers, such as gun shows, are not required to conduct background checks even though they make up over 20% of all firearm sales as stated in a 2017 National Survey done by the Annals of Internal Medicine. The background checks themselves are not reliable either. In 2005, Seung Hui Cho was declared mentally ill by a judge. Two years later, Cho shot and killed 32 people in the Virginia Tech massacre. Cho was able to legally obtain a gun and pass a background check due to an absence of records in the NICS, or National Crime Information Center, system. As of

As of recent almost everyone has heard of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Shooting that took place in Parkland Florida on February 14, 2018. This shooting has sparked much controversy over gun laws and legislation, 17 students were killed with numerous others injured making it the 3rd largest mass school shooting in US history. Anytime someone is shoot and killed it’s tragic, but why so much controversy and media attention you ask? Well many survivors of the shooting are saying Gun Laws are to blame, demanding change. In recent years Sandy Hook Elementary, Northern Illinois University, and the Virginia Tech University Shootings have all taken place but with not nearly as much media attention. Until recently guns where not to blame but the security of the schools and the sanity of the shooter where questioned, but today most want to blame the guns, when guns don’t kill people. Therefore, gun laws shouldn’t change but citizens and public security should change.

Since 1990 when the first school shooting happened, there have been many concerns over school safety. People like knowing that if their kid goes to school they will 1. Further their chances of having a future, and 2. Come back home. Sometimes however that doesn’t happen. There have been many accusations pointed toward the NRA but they’re not all to blame. Yes, these people shouldn’t have gotten a gun so easily but does that really matter? Wouldn’t that have just postponed the shooting by a few months? And more importantly people don’t just wake up and say, “I’m going to go shoot a school up today.” They plan for it and buy the “best” weapons available via the gun store or the black market. Even if it takes a little longer than it should, it still will happen.

This wasn't the last time- it was bound to happen again. It almost seems that this act of inhumanity had become a normality for our nation- no more of a tradition than cheering on the San Francisco 49ers in the Super Bowl or patriotically bellowing out the 'The Star-Spangled Banner'. Despite the solidarity, which followed innately after each massacre, citizens still flocked to the local gun store and purchased more lethal toys than they had preceding. The fear of confiscation terrified them more than their own innocent children being mowed down on the school's lawn. Whilst the government offered their condolences and stated their empty promises, the NRA continued to aggressively lobby for the continuation of the lacklustre approach to gun control. Anyone could be the next shooter. Anyone could be the next victim. It could be an affluent businessman, it could be the elderly man next door. It could even be your own son. So that is why I continued to implore the survivors, your peers and your friends Danny, to take a stand against you, because the government should be listening. These youngsters are the future. They have the power to elect political leaders who will pass life-saving bills. Unlike their parents, they are the ones who will not be purchasing the automatic assault rifles in act of defiance. Their pained voices, which once fell on deaf ears, are only growing in