I. (grabber) Guns kill about 33.000 people per year in the United States, and 22,000 deaths are suicides while 11,000 are homicides. Guns also cause indiscriminate murders, mass shootings and other gun deaths related to America. While the Congress has imposed regulations to counter assault weapons, they have not properly prohibited individuals from getting guns. It remains clearly that despite the efforts to close the loopholes of gun control, handguns still are highly responsible for most killings in the United States (Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute).
II. (topic) After several kinds of gun restrictions, gun related deaths have not come to an end in America, and they are linked to various kinds of aspects.
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Having a gun in the house makes a living even more dangerous as opposed to living without.
1. Guns never discriminate between the innocent and the criminals. In fact, statistics affirm that accidental killings are four times higher in homes that legitimately own guns in defense situations.
2. Additionally, owning a gun in the house increase the potentials of one becoming a victim of gun related suicide or homicide.
A graph showing Deaths by Firearm per 100,000 People Source: Google https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/03/whats-the-solution-to-gun-violence/462537
3. As discussed in the beginning, most children are exposed early to family’s firearms, and often they handle the guns in the absence of their parents. Furthermore, statistics have shown that when the guns kill children and teens, 72% of the time the guns are owned by the parents in their homes.
(Transition: Although the statistical findings may have triggered polarizing thoughts, gun ownership in America is contentious and results in most social problems.)
C. Rather than increasing self-protection, guns owned by individuals have been equally used in fatal intentional shootings.
1. In the article entitled “Children and Guns: The Hidden Toll” by Michael Luo and Mike McIntire, intentional and fatal shootings equally has a significant share of
A shooting here; a shooting there; an every day occurrence heard in the newspapers and on the news channels on television. New media are reporting a shooting somewhere. Whether the shootings are accidental or intentional; they are happening across the United States. Nevertheless, in today’s society, gun violence is sparking debate and controversy on how to control gun violence. Throughout the country, thousands of laws and regulations have been created to aid in the control of guns. Through much study, the gun laws and regulations in place have very little effect on the number of gun related injuries and deaths. More needs to be done to establish an effective way to control gun violence.
The high rates of gun violence and accidents in the United States have long aroused public concern, in view of the strong correlation between gun prevalence, many people believe that the United States must adopt stricter gun control measures to reduce the huge number of firearms across the nation. These people are known as gun control proponents, or advocates. However, many other people do not think so. In their eyes, the serious firearm problems do not result from gun prevalence, and many people would say it is not gun’s problem, people are pushing our
Studies have demonstrated, repeatedly, that homes with a firearm are no safer than those without guns. In fact, the sight of a gun during an intrusion is cause for action, deterring thought, which could make all the difference between life and unnecessary death. Besides which, most gun murders at home aren 't perpetrated by an intruder, but rather by a family member or an acquaintance.
* Guns kept in the home were 22 times more likely to be used in unintentional shootings, murder or assault, and suicide attempts than in an act of self-defense.
The issue of gun control begins with the careless distribution of firearms and how easy they are to obtain. In the United States, many mass killings by gunmen in civilian settings set
C. Thesis Statement (position on topic – preview main ideas – outline of speech); A Pew Foundation report found that 79% of male gun owners and 80% of female gun owners said owning a gun made them feel safer, and 64% of people living in a home in which someone else owns a gun felt safer.The Centers for Disease Control listed firearms as the #12 cause of all deaths between 1999 and 2013, representing 1.3% of total deaths. They were also the #1 method of death by homicide (66.6% of all homicides) and by suicide (52.2% of all suicides).
Dr. Jeffrey A. Roth states that “research has shown that a gun kept in the home is 43 times more likely to kill a member of the household, or friend, than an intruder. The use of a firearm to resist a violent assault actually increases the victim's risk of injury and death.”
The thought of guns and the ability to commit mass murder is a chilling one. According to the The Brady Campaign To Prevent Gun Violence, “an average of more than 100,000 people are shot every year in the United States” (Just the Facts: Gun Violence in America). Gun violence in America has reached epidemic proportions, surpassing rates of gun-related violence in other developed, high-income nations by 25 percent (Preidt). There is an urgent need for tighter gun laws in America. (5) In order to put an end to the growing trend of gun violence, the United States needs stricter legislation regarding the purchase and ownership of firearms. Although most gun advocates believe that stricter gun laws would not prevent mass shootings, stricter gun
Every year more than 20,000 children, as well as a youth under the age of 20 years, face deaths and in other case injured by firearms in the US. The fact that guns are lethal, as well as the fact that there is ease of access to the guns by the young people, is the main explanation why firearms are the second cause of deaths among young people between 10 and 19 years. Most of these deaths are homicides while suicides account for approximately one-third of the deaths by gun among the young people, and unintentional shootings account for approximately 7% of the deaths. Among the homicides that have perpetrated by the young people in their school include the 2012-gun attack at Sandy Elementary where 28 people at the school killed. In the year 1927 in the bath school, there were 45 murders whereby the majority of the victims were children. At Virginia Tech, a gunman killed 33 victims in the year 2007 (Swanson, et al. 361-376).
Gun control has become an increasingly controversial topic in the nation due to the continuous debates relating to gun control and whether or not laws should be passed to make it harder for guns to be obtained. Guns serve for a variety of purposes that range from good to bad. Guns are not for everyone. Some individuals cannot handle guns properly, and some choose to use guns inappropriately. Lately, guns have become more of a problem in our society. There has been an increasing amount of shootings that have taken many lives and have wounded people emotionally, not just physically. Although guns are used for protection, firearms are reportedly used more in crimes. More and more shootings are breaking out across the nation. As a result, the
The gun rights and gun control debate start in 2013, after a lone gunman killed around 27 people, including 20 children, six adults and himself at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. In gun violence and ownership, the US leads the world that is directly correlated to the made in the gun control debate-guns kill people. On the base of study, the American Journal of Public Health stated that people those were homicide victims in the US were around 68% killed with handguns between 1988 and 1997 (Laws.com, 2015).
Gun violence continues to dominate national headlines. On average, the gun violence epidemic leaves a child or teen wounded or dead every hour in the United States, resulting in 47 American children and teens shot every day, and culminating to ___ shot every year. Deaths related to gun violence are now the third leading cause of death for American children. And these statistics are based solely on the actual deaths, but does not account for those exposed to this brutality—friends, family members, and other children who are psychologically damaged and struck with fear in their hearts.
Gun Control Part I:Introduction The issue of gun control and violence, both in Canada and the United States, is one that simply will not go away. If history is to be any guide, no matter what the resolution to the gun control debate is, it is probable that the arguments pro and con will be much the same as they
It is impossible not to open a newspaper, watch the television, or listen to the radio with out hearing about some type of gun violence. Perhaps the main reason for such high gun violence is that guns are so plentiful in the Unites States. In fact, there are sixty five million handguns in America ("The `facts' about Guns"). These guns contribute to an annual medical cost of fourteen billion dollars, which is spent solely on treating gun victims ("Handguns in America"). Not surprisingly, handguns are the cause of eighty percent of homicides, seventy percent of suicides, and almost every accidental shooting ("Youth and Violence"). Handgun violence is a problem that is easy for everyone to see. How to solve this predicament is another
What my father, and the others don’t know, is that a gun kept in a home is 22 times more likely to be used in an accidental shooting, suicide, or criminal assault, rather than be used in self-defense. That sure doesn’t make me feel safe as I lay down in bed at