Essay On Mass Shootings

We don’t need to be that vigilant in order to know that gun-related violence and massacres have infiltrated our society. There have been many cases of public mass shootings that have occurred, with some of them happening in schools. 2015 will now be known as the year of mass shootings in the United States, and this is also the reason why the discussion for new gun control laws has heighten in the media.

According to Mass Shooting Tracker, in 2015, there were 372 mass shootings in the United States. Killing 475 people, as well as wounding 1,870.

The United States has had over 350 mass shootings in 2015 alone. There is no specific criteria for mass shootings besides that there are multiple victims and it seems to be at random. There have been a number of mass shootings that have made the news worldwide like; the mass shooting at a black church in S.C and the mass shooting in Texas that left over 20 individuals dead or injured. There are several reasons why a mass shooting may occur. The most recent mass shooting happened this month in California and it happened at a home for the mentally ill. On December 2, 2015 Syed Rizwan Farook and wife Tashfeen Malik opened fire on at a holiday party in the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino. Fourteen died and 21 were

Since August 1, 1966, there have been 146 mass shootings in the United States. This figure refers to shootings in which four or more people were killed (Berkowitz, B., Gamio, L,

According to the Gun Violence Archive (GVA), a non-profit organization that supplies people with refutable statistics about gun violence, a mass shooting is any event in which a gunman shoots more than four people in the same general time and location. As stated by the GVA, there has been 273 mass shootings in 2017 alone. This means that there has been an average of 7.5 mass shootings a week, which indicates that at least four or more people were either killed or injured every day from January to October. Seventeen of the deadliest mass shootings in history of the US happened in the past decade. The US is now the country that mass shootings are affiliated with; America take credit for only 5% of the world's population but takes responsibility of 31% of the world's mass shootings.

To fully understand the impact of America’s gun control measures, it’s important to look beyond the handful of mass shootings that acquired enough headlines to puncture national consciousness. The most thorough source that currently exists is Mass Shooting Tracker, a collaborative project where users find and verify media reports to count the number of US mass shootings each year. The group defines a mass shooting as an incident where four or more people are

Nine students were killed at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon. A man opened fire in a church, in Charleston, South Carolina, killing nine people, including the pastor. Twenty-seven were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. Twelve were killed in the Washington Navy Yard. These are only a few examples of a very long list of mass shootings that have occurred. The reasoning for the accessible amount of mass shootings is controversial my theory for the epidemic of mass shooting in the United States is mental health.

Credentials: After researching, I found that the mass shootings are the most common in The United States. According to BBC News, there 372 mass shooting in the US in 2015. In these mass shootings, there were 475 people killed and 1,870 wounded.

Las Vegas shooting was by far the deadliest shootings in Modern History. It happened on October 1st 2017. The Las Vegas shooting was during an outdoor concert. Around 59 people killed and about 507 injured. It happened

Gun violence has been a huge deal from police brutality to mass shootings. As of December 4 2017, we had about 404 mass shootings so far.

On December 14, 2012, a twenty-year-old man named Adam Lanza had opened fire at the “Sandy Hook Elementary School” in Newtown, Connecticut. It had been reported that he shot and killed twenty children from the ages six and seven, and six more adults who were the school staff and faculty. It was later found out that he had also shot and killed his mother in her own home whilst she was sleeping. In 2016, on June 12, a twenty-nine-year-old man, Omar Saddiqui Mateen, also shot and killed forty-nine people and injured fifty-nine others at a nightclub named “Pulse” in Orlando, Florida. And, in a recent tragedy on October 1, 2017, a sixty-four-year-old man named Stephen Paddock shot fifty-eight people and injured five-hundred-forty-six others in Las Vegas, Nevada. These people were enjoying their time at a concert near the Mandalay Bay hotel where Paddock had planned to open fire from the thirty-second floor in room one-hundred-thirty-five. These are just three out of the many mass shootings that have occurred over the past years, and we’ve all had enough of it.

Mass shootings are and have been a serious problem for years. The first mass shooting was in 1949 on September 6. A man named Howard Unruh murdered thirteen people shooting from a window at innocent people walking in his neighborhood. Ever since this incident many, more mass shootings have occurred. Every year thousands of innocent people are injured or killed by firearms in America. It is a very sad situation that needs to be changed in the future. Nobody should have the right to injure an innocent person. Most firearm owners say a gun is needed to fulfill their freedom. The media is bombarded with headlines when a mass shooting happens, but no one really does anything about it once it is over. The desperate need to do something about this is obvious. Mass shootings

Mass shootings have different definitions based on each person’s opinion. The official definition according to the Investigative Assistance for Violent Crimes Act of 2012 is “3 or more killings in a single incident; and… [in] a place of public use”. Some attacks often reported on only result in injuries and no deaths, this causes the appearances of many more attacks than in reality. Terrorist attacks are not included because the meaning of their violence is different from shooters. Terrorists are more about invoking fear among people who are against their group. Shooters want to inflict pain on others and usually are working alone. They both lead to fear and pain

Over the past decade, mass shootings have become more frequent, and more deadly. There is more than one mass shooting per day in America (“Mass shootings”), and some, such as the recent one in Las Vegas, which has left 58 dead and 500 injured are unbelievable tragedies (“Las Vegas shooting”). This is a problem in our society that cannot be ignored, and can be solved with proper gun control.

Why are random shooting becoming more persistent in the U.S? We often hear on the news about random shootings around the country. There are many public shootings which have become persistent and lethal in the past few years, according to congressional research service. In recent years, the frequency of mass public shootings has increased from 282 days between incidents to 74 days. The shootings are becoming deadlier. The average of people dying and getting wounded per incident is increasing. From 2010 through 2013, around seven victims were killed and six injured in every shooting where as in 1980s about six victims died and five injured per incident.