Gun Violence And Stricter Gun Related Crimes

In the last ten months, since the start of the year 2015, proximally 300 mass shootings have taken place in the United States. This number is about 100 times the amount of mass shootings in Australia since their gun restricting bill was passed in 1996. This raises the discussion whether or not changing the American gun laws would help bring down the total of injuries and fatalities.

Hi Shaun great report; ATF is an interesting agency to research because of much criticism over the constitutional right to bear arms. Strict policy regulations monitor alcohol, tobacco, and firearms to reduce their influences on minors. Past and recent school shootings at Columbine high school (1999), Virginia Tech (2007), and Sandy Hook Elementary (2012) demonstrate an increase in gun violence; and the need for gun control. I support strict gun laws in the hope of preventing children and some adults from mishandling it. Do you think that implementing stricter gun laws would effect gun violence? Similarly alcohol and tobacco use has negative consequences for minors. Both alcohol and tobacco can be highly addictive for adults, and if exposed

Gun related violence is violence committed with the use of a gun (firearm or small arm). Gun related violence may or may not be considered criminal. Criminal violence includes homicide (except when and where ruled justifiable), assault with a deadly weapon, and suicide, or attempted suicide, depending on jurisdiction. There was a total of 57,462 deaths due to gun violence in 2017. Americans are more likely to die from gun violence than many leading causes of death combined, with some 11,000 people in the US killed in firearm assaults each year.(Robinson 2017)How do you expect things to get better when this many people die because of something so dumb? According to Elizabeth Warren, ”we lose eight children and teenagers to gun violence every day.”(2016) The hashtag not one more was created so people can try to control the use of their guns and not have another person die. This hashtag was not effective because there was still a lot of deaths in the United States.

suicides, 36% were homicides, and 2% were unintentional (2%) (CDC2012a). Almost as many Americans die from gunfire as die from motor vehicle crashes (almost 34,000 in 2010). Americans under age 40 are more likely to die from gunfire than from any specific disease (CDC 2012a). While there are so many incidents involving Gun violence, there is not much being done to prevent it from occurring on a daily basis. These incidents have resulted in many people getting injured or even being murdered, whether they were young toddlers or a elderly woman in her 80's. Many people believe that that countries must come

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the United States experiences epidemic levels of gun violence, claiming over 30,000 lives annually. For every person who dies from a gunshot wound, two others are wounded. In America, there are approximately 270 million firearms possessed by civilians, and only 897,000 carried by police. Every year, approximately 100,000 Americans are victims of gun violence. In addition to those who are killed or injured, there are countless others whose lives are forever changed by the deaths of and injuries to their loved ones. (Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence).

Although it may seem that stricter gun laws could reduce gun violence, I am pro-gun because I believe it is actually the person behind the gun who needs changing, and even with harsher gun laws, people will find other means of causing homicide, while guns can actually help people, by giving a sense of

First and foremost, poor gun control laws are a main reason for gun violence in America. The process of obtaining a gun needs to be stricter. The average number of gun related deaths per year in America alone is 30,000. The number of injuries per year by gun is about 68,000 (Alters). The

Gun laws are the cause for much of the violent crime in the United States and need to be changed by enforcing and assembling stricter regulations, allowing more concealed carries for protection, and educating Americans about firearms to reduce mass panic. Over the course of our history American has suffered from a substantial number of mass shootings; Columbine in Littleton, CO, Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C, Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA, and Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT. These mass shootings are just one side of the gun violence in America. There are also drive-bys, accidental shootings, and many other types of gun crimes. And these are all happening in different parts of the country and in different periods of time. They are tragedies that affect not only the people but our nation as a whole.

Gun control generally refers to policies that regulate the manufacture, sale, transfer, possession, modification, or use of firearms (Wikipedia). This is an important definition for citizens, lawmakers, and gun lobbyists to follow over the debate on gun control. As well as the Second Amendment in the constitution which states, “The right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed”. There has been a debate on whether that specifies within the home or outside of the home. For more than a century, gun control has been a considerable topic amongst the groups of citizens, lawmakers, and gun lobbyist due to reoccurring gun violence issues spreading across the United States. Every year an average of 32,514 people die from gun violence. According to The Brady Campaign (Gun violence prevention campaign), in 2015, 108,476 people in America are shot in murders, assaults, suicides & suicide attempts, unintentional shootings, or by police intervention (Brady Campaign). In these incidents, handguns are known to be the top firearms used and owned (Brady Campaign).Now we focus on how to control it and where gun control laws are headed. Democrats believe the state and federal laws don’t do enough to protect citizens from the loss of a life. Republicans support “the right to bear arms” for citizens to defend themselves, and the National Rifle Association believe the current law should be enforced more aggressively. Overall the debate boils down to who should have possession of

After the Newtown, Conn. school shooting many people in the US were gripped by fear and were asking for more control on guns. Stores that sold guns were taking them off of shelves, gun buybacks were set-up, more and more kids were wearing bulletproof backpack, and some kids even took their own guns to school for protection. And lawmakers said they would tighten gun laws. Gun violence dropped in 1990 but according to a study conducted by the University of Pennsylvania, 1994 gun laws had too many loopholes and had little to no effect on mass shootings. One reason gun control wouldn't work is because there are over 300 million people who privately own some type of gun. Now in theory more stricter gun laws could work. In 1996 Australia spent over $500

Some Studies show that 31% of all mass shootings in the world happen in the US. Australia in 1996, 35 people lost their lives when a man indiscriminately decided to shoot them. In the all the commotion, 23 other people were wounded. This caused the Australian government to think and implement strict rules regarding gun use. As a result, the number of mass killings has been majorly

I chose gun violence because my uncle got shot with a gun a couple of times in his

Of the 365 days in 2015, there was a total of 330 mass shootings in America (Gun Violence Archive). Of the 53,092 reported gun related incidents that year, there were 13,394 deaths (Gun Violence Archive). There is no doubt that the citizens of the United States of America are facing a major gun problem.

Many people think more strict gun laws will make them safer but statistics show that is not true. Chicago laws state a special license is needed for concealed carry and citizens are not allowed to open carry. Also, a license is needed for other guns (Beauer, 2017). There were 125 shootings in Chicago alone in October (Ali, 2017). Chicago makes up much more gun violence than a state as a whole. For every 100,000 deaths 25.1 of them are from gun violence (Kurtzleben, 2017).

From 1979-1996, 13 fatal mass shootings occurred in Australia, whereas from 1997 to 2016, no fatal mass shootings occurred (Chapman, Alpers & Jones 2012). There was also significant change in the pre-existing downward trends for rates of total firearm deaths prior to versus after gun law reform. From 1979-1996, the mean rate of total firearm deaths was 3.6 per 100,000 population, whereas from 1997-2013, it was 1.2 per 100,000 population, with a ratio of trends in annual death rates of 0.981 (Chapman, Alpers & Jones 2012).