Gun Violence In Jersey City

Juvenile gun violence is an ever-increasing problem in our country. With a wave of school shooting behind us it is time to get this under control. Many studies have been done on how to effectively diminish juvenile gun violence. It is clear that this must be handled on a state and local level with the federal government backing the states. Prevention and law enforcement is the key to successfully eradicate our nation of the ugly stain caused by youth gun violence.

Gun violence is the sign of a far greater universal problem in America today. Violence and gun violence specifically, is surrounded within, and spread all through every part of our society. All the reasons remain intimately related to the actual solution, which can only be a general solution one by treating it as one issue. The region that I live in is considered a peaceful part of Harvest, which I am particularly grateful about. I do not have to worry about gunfights in the roads of my community, nor maybe being helpless confronted by students with a gun at school. That, nevertheless, does not mean that my community is impermeable to gun violence. Huntsville has seen its share of gun violence from the incident at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), where three people were murdered and three others injured on February 12, 2010. Throughout the course of a routine gathering of the biology department attended by about 12 people, professor Amy Bishop stood up and began shooting those next to her with a 9-millimeter handgun (Hall 2010)

Before I get into the strategies put in place to reduce gun violence, I want to touch on the things that contribute to gun violence in New Haven. According to the “Selected Strategies for Community Gun Violence Prevention” report, violent crimes contribute to and are exacerbated by economic disadvantage (City-Wide). The main area in New Haven where gun violence occurs is in areas of low-income and poverty and the gun violence are being executed by the youth ages 15-24. In this day and age, we are living in a society where your income level determines your life expectancy, whether it is homicide, suicide or another form of violent activity. Living in New Haven and experiencing this first hand, I was able to see how the power and the struggle of poverty, low-income, gang wars and even drug activity can exacerbate gun violence. New Haven has as many as 2,500 people who are in gangs. These gangs lie in six neighborhoods in New Haven. The gangs being, The Ville, The Tre, The Tribe, The Jungle, The Island and The Hill hold responsibility

There was a clear need for change in Boston as youth gun violence had risen dramatically in the years leading up to Operation Ceasefire. Between 1984 and 1994, juvenile homicide victimizations committed with handguns increased by 418 percent, and juvenile homicide victimizations committed with other guns increased 125 percent (Braga, Kennedy, Waring, and Piehl 2001). During this time period, young adults (ages 18 to 24) had the largest absolute increase in homicide commission and victimization, while adolescents (ages 14 to 17) had the highest proportional increase in numbers, and with a great deal of crossfire between the two age groups (Braga, Kennedy, Waring, and Piehl 2001).

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.

An ongoing and highly debated social problem that continues to grow in our society today is the gun control epidemic. Gun violence in the United States is a national epidemic. Many people take advantage of guns using and manipulating the tool with hardly any thought. Countless lives have been lost due to fact that people have been able to obtain firearms legally or illegally and have taken the notion to be judge, jury and executioner in holding ones live in their hands. This is a common issue that will continue if action is not taken as a nation to try and stop it. Gun violence can lead many citizens to believe that no place is deemed safe anymore and recent tragedies that have taken place in United States holds up that statement. In

It has spread to the suburbs and small towns. Gun violence rates have increased in the last decade due to hatred and societal issues, and while shooters and victims both face many difficult obstacles, there are some solutions that the public and schools can enforce through awareness.

Since 1982, at least sixty-two mass shootings have occurred, thirty-two of them since 2006. (Aronsen). Jared Loughner was sentenced to life in prison after shooting nineteen people in January of 2011. Last July, fifty-eight people were shot and twelve killed while watching the new Batman movie in a theater in Colorado. In December, twenty-six people were murdered, including twenty first-graders, in a Connecticut elementary school (Follman). The issue of gun violence only becomes relevant after a horrific event such as these, then fades from public concern after about two weeks. The number of injuries and murders using guns in the United States is a large number, which can hopefully be

When a gun falls into the hands of a juvenile, it's usually from received or taken from someone they know. Being the creatures of habit that we are, we follow our predecessors adapting to the environment we are surrounded by, thinking violence is the answer or the way to end our problems. This results in robberies, mass shootings, and even teen suicide. Families expecting their loved ones to come home from work or school. There are also instances of stray bullets, bullets that hit unintended targets. Targets that are innocent bystanders or innocent people who thought they would be safe if the comfort of their own homes. All of which can cause emotional and physical

This article is meant to be read by others besides citizens in Chicago. It is a cry for help, and an insight into what people are going through because of gun violence. I and many others live in rural towns, safe, family areas and we have no clue what these cities are going through. We cannot relate to something that we haven 't experienced. Davey uses her words to influence the readers to try to sympathize and understand what the

I enjoy reading your post this week. I agree that gun violence creates a tumbling effect on everyone including the community. The reason being is that the people are the ones who make up the community. Everyone involved loses. The perpetrators lose their freedom, the parents lose their love ones, and the community loses two or more members from its organization. Gun violence creates feelings of fear, anger and hatred in most people. These types of feelings can lead to even more violence and maybe even more loss of lives. Due to the trauma, stress and distress are felt by the families of both the victims and the perpetrators. This can lead to physical and mental issues for everyone. If a person knows that certain areas are prone

This week I learn about the current events in my colleagues neighborhood. I read a student discussion talking about the tornado that happen in her city I could imagine that affect it had on the children. I think it is great that we are discussing what is happening in our neighborhood so we can be aware. The gun violence in Chicago has changed so many families life. I remember a article about a boy coming to Chicago to visit his family and he was gunned down accidently. I think educators can educate children about what is going on in the city that they reside in.

In “Specifying the Role of Exposure to Violence and Violent Behavior on Initiation of Gun Carrying: A Longitudinal Test of Three Models of Youth Gun Carrying,” by Spano, Pridemore, and Bolland assert that there is a higher risk of youth gun carrying after being exposed to violence and has been engaged in violent behavior. Researchers found in the early 1990s there is an increase of deaths and injuries associated with youth gun carrying specifically in high-poverty inner-city neighborhoods. However, this violent crime has not decreased in the twentieth century, high rates of death and injury continues to contribute in the African American youth for using firearms. Adolescent firearm violence has been identified as an endemic public threat to

A literature review of gun violence prevention is being undergone as part of this submittal. This research is important because gun violence has been a plague in the United States and the United Kingdom, among other places, for much of the recent century or two. This violence takes on two major forms. The first is general gun violence that is perpetrated as part of gang violence, robberies, burglaries, crimes of passion or spite and so forth. The other major form, which is both quite uncommon but very poignant and affecting when it happens, are school and other mass shootings like Columbine and the very recent Sandy Hook. There have been a decent amount of other school shootings and work shootings, but those are far and away the most notorious. Both were effected by very mentally ill teenagers or young adults that decide to go out in a bloody and perverted blaze of glory before they took their own life.

The limitations of this study were that not everyone wanted to answer all the questions because gun violence is a very sensitive topic. Also, some of the questions brought back many sad memories for the participants. Another limitation was that I had to get permission from the high school principal and the Jersey City Board of Education in order to conduct my focus group at Henry Snyder High School (see Appendix D, for email). This was a huge setback for the study therefore, I decided to interview a few students after school across the street from Henry Snyder High School.