Gun Violence Crimes

If gun control is regulated, then we will have less crime. Access to firearms makes killing easy, efficient, and impersonal, which increases the lethality of crime. Josh Sugarmann, the Executive Director of the Violence Policy Center has once said, "We recoil in horror and search for explanations, but we never face up to the obvious preventive measure: a ban on the handy killing machines that make crimes so easy.”Allowing untrained people to carry guns puts others at risk and it can result in self-inflicting injuries both by suicide and unintentional incidents. Gun violence in America kills more than 30,000 and injures almost 70,000 each year. Guns can be misused and abused, which is why gun

The city of New Orleans is one of the most populated cities in the United States of America Within the city communities face serious problems daily. Crime is major issue that haunts the mind of people within the community. Gun violence in New Orleans is a serious issue that needs to be solved. It seems like every day there is person that loses there life to gun violence. New Orleans murder rate is one of the highest in the United States today. Most of the gun violence is because of senseless people doing stupid things. I’m against gun violence because I feel that no one should lose their life for any reason. In this essay I will explain what I think could help stop gun violence, and what’s already being done to combat it.

For this reason, it is incredibly hard for the country to agree or disagree on controversial topics such as gun control. Gun control laws and restrictions are methods in reducing the accessibility of firearms to the ordinary citizen. The belief is that with less dangerous firearms in the streets, the less crime there will be. Numerous studies and evidence show that a reduction of gun ownership can ironically increase the crime rate. This trend might seem counter intuitive but when seen at a different perspective, it becomes logical. When law abiding citizens are not able to purchase a weapon but a criminal is through illegal means such as the black market, it leaves people helpless against the gunman. Many advocates for gun control seem to ignore the facts and trends that show that gun ownership and crime rate does not have any correlation. Instead, these advocates seem to rely on the emotional appeal of people, exploiting the tragedies that are caused by shootings, wars, and criminal activities. The purpose of this essay is to educate people on the negative side effects of gun control and on how guns can actually decrease

In the past decade or so, Americans had experienced epidemic level of gun violence taking place in every corner of country. Actually owning gun is legal in the USA, it’s actually our second amendment; the right to bare firearms. Approximately 300 million Americans held gun in their homes.

It is clear that mental illness is the overwhelming cause of death from firearms, just not in the way you think. The one thing that seems to get glossed over whenever the infamous gun debate comes up is suicide. While suicide is a taboo subject especially when it comes to the gun debate, it's something people need to stop ignoring. People seem to have this idea that those who own a firearm and have a mental illness are a danger to the people around them when in fact they pose a far bigger threat to their own safety. While it is understandable that communities fear the dangers of mass killings it is suicides that are tearing them apart. According to Metzl, people make four assumptions when it comes to mental illness and firearms: “ that mental illness causes gun violence, that psychiatric diagnosis can predict gun crime, that shootings represent the deranged acts of mentally ill loners, and that gun control “won’t prevent” another Newtown”(Metzl, & MacLeish, 2015). These assumptions are based off what people believe rather than actual facts however and so are not entirely true.

As we all know gun violence has become an increasingly conflicted issue in the world and specifically in the United States. Gun violence is the leading cause of premature death in the United States as it kills almost 30,000 people and causes about 60,000 injuries annually. But guns are not the main cause of this problem. The problem is America's culture of violence. We need to understand that guns are not what’s killing people, people are what’s killing people. Although guns may enable killers to commit an act of violence more easily and effectively, stricter laws on guns would not necessarily dismantle the problem. Currently, guns are just a symptom to the real problem, which is our violent human nature. For decades, we have been dousing

Data is difficult to gather when researching gun-related violence within gangs. However, it is obvious that gang members have guns and they retrieve their guns from the illegal gun market. According to the National Institute of Justice (2013), “Gun-related homicide is most prevalent among gangs and during the commission of felony crimes.” Dating back to 1980, 70 percent of all homicides within gangs involved a gun. In 1993, the percentage rose to 95 percent (National Institute of Justice 2013).

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.

The children of today are being born into a harsh society, one that Americans have never seen before. Media bombards citizens with scenes of death and violence. From the toys children play with to the movies they watch to even seeing what their parents watch on the news, children grow up learning that violence is the social norm. With over 30,000 deaths by guns each year, Americans are now realizing change is needed causing huge debates within our political system (Siegel But could the solution be closer to home? In order to minimize gun violence in America, society must first recognize its flaws in approach to finding a solution, with fixing Americans societal problems first not only will violence be minimized but the health of American

Although it seems like the problem of crime and gun violence is never approached or discussed, there are leaders within America tirelessly working to find a solution to help decrease crime. Alex Yablon puts it like this in his article on The Trace, saying “the lack of progress on the federal level should not be confused with a lack of proposed solutions to America 's gun violence epidemic – there are plenty of those, on both sides of the table.” Yablon means there are some bills that would limit the access to guns as well as bills that would prevent the enforcement of restrictions on guns. However, he is not the only one to have an opinion of how the government is viewing crime and gun violence. John Donohue, in his article Gun Control: What We can learn from other Advanced Countries, points out that besides being the world leader in the amount of guns available to citizens, the U.S. does not seem to be making much progress on finding a solution. Donohue also goes on to say that, “the stricter gun laws of other ‘advanced countries’ have restrained homicidal violence, suicides and gun accidents,” despite there being protest by the armed citizens (Newsweek Magazine Web). These two men each hold different viewpoints when it comes to how they think crime and gun violence is being addressed by the government, however, each of their viewpoints presents a valid opinion in regards to the issue. Still, in order to fully understand what is going on at the federal level, one has to

The issue of gun violence and gun control has been a rising issue in today’s society. Everyday there is another shooting, another standoff, another hostage taken, and another life lost. It’s a truly sad, heart wrenching reality of today’s world, but there may just be a way to fix it. A way to ensure that both pro-gun activist and pro-gun control activists get a little of what they want.

This article states the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and how it lists the United States as the country with the highest rate of firearm violence among modern communities. On average, about 33,000 people are killed by gun violence each year. On an average day 96 Americans are killed with guns, there are nearly 13,000 gun homicides a year in the United States, 50 women are shot to death by their intimate partners and for every one person killed with guns, two more are injured. Black people are 10 times more likely to be killed by guns than any other race. The impact of gender and age says that 87% of gun deaths occurred in boys and 13% occured in girls. Boys were seven times more likely to be killed by guns than girls,

2. My topic is socially significant because many people every day die from the result of gun violence. I wanted to search if there was any way we could improve our gun regulations, and thus reduce how many people die from the gun violence.

The gun problem in America takes root in our very own foundations. And so, this issue will only rise and drastically increase homicide and suicide rates. Virtually, this issue cannot be deterred completely as it is “the right of the people to keep and bear arms” (Second Amendment: Cornell.edu).Therefore, this cannot be completely disbanded due to this being an amendment protected by the constitution. Secondly, this will only keep the gun violence in a rise as most households feel that it is safer to keep a firearm at home.

Currently in the United States, people are ten times more likely to be killed by a gun compared to other countries (CBS). Given recent circumstances, it’s obvious that reform is desperately necessary to improve the overall security of our communities. As a senior at Aberdeen High School, it is crucial that we work together to relocate our energy to improving general security. Although there are regulations in place on owning a gun, the enforcement of it is highly neglected. 65% of juvenile offenders have access to at least three illegal firearms (Gun Laws), and if there were tighter policies and increased security of how these weapons were being distributed, that number could potentially decrease. In order to eradicate gun related violence,