Persuasive Essay On Shootings

The United States contains 5% of the world’s population. However, our nation covers 35-50% of the world’s civilian-owned guns, is ranked first for firearms per capita, and holds the highest homicide rate among all other nations of wealth and democracy at 88.5% (Masters). Such high rates and loose restrictions are bound to lead to tragedy. We will not sit here and make excuses, we will not allow power in the hands of insanity, and we will not allow the safety of our children to be hindered. After each tragedy that has struck, we have failed to successfully improve gun control. As of now, we hold no federal law banning semi-automatic assault weapons, just like the weapons used in the Las Vegas massacre, resulting in

In 1999, the state of Connecticut passed a gun seizure law allowing judges to confiscate guns from citizens if the police can provide evidence that the person is a threat to society or to themselves. Within two weeks of the seizure, a hearing must be held which will determine if the gun may be returned to the citizen or if the state will be authorized to hold the gun for up to a year. This law was put into place after four killings with a firearm in 1998 by a mentally ill man. The state of Indiana has a similar law, which was passed in 2005, and two other states, California and New Jersey, are now contemplating the enforcement of regulations like those in Connecticut and Indiana after a mass killing in Santa Barbra, California by a mentally

After a shooting in Las Vegas last October that left fifty-eight dead -- the deadliest mass shooting in modern United States history calls went out for a ban on an accessory known as a "bump stock." Bump stocks allow semi-automatic weapons to fire like automatic weapons and Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock had affixed them to some of his weapons as he rained gunfire on an outdoor concert from his hotel suite.

Throughout the years there have been a numerous of school shootings, and they have become more mainstream, this has caused people to stand up to the government for not doing nothing about it. I plan to argue an issue that has been put aside, and it is more relevant than ever. At the start of 2018, there have been many school shootings about 1.25 a week.

Since the beginning of 2018 how many school shootings happened? Claimed by David Emery in his article on snopes website, Since January 1st, 2018 until now eighteen school shooting have had happened making the average of school shooting be three pre-week (Emery). When seventeen people get killed and more than fifteen get injured on a school grounds, I think this is the right time to reevaluate the gun control laws that the country have. The problem is that the government does not have very strict gun control laws and does not enforce the law of correlcety.

You’ve probably heard of it lately, its been all over the news, social media, even involved students walking out to support the cause. Without firearms how will we protect ourselves, most importantly our family? Some find it very controversial, but it's honestly not at all

This is an advertisement that on gun control that came out a couple years ago by an organization called "Moms Demand Action". This shows two kids in a classroom, one with an assault rifle and the other holding a Kinder Chocolate egg. The add asks which is illegal in the US.

There was a report of a shooting on the Umpqua Community College campus in Roseburg, Oregon at around 10:38 a.m. on Thursday. As of now, 10 people, including the gunman have been killed. Seven people were also injured in the shooting. The gunman has been identified by government officials as Chris Harper Mercer. President Obama stated that “anybody that does this has a sickness in their minds regardless of what they think their motivations may be”. He continued by saying “The United States of America is the one advanced nation on Earth in which we do not have sufficient common sense gun safety laws even in the face of repeated mass killings”. Obama calls these types

Since the beginning of 2018, 18 shootings have been taking place on school property. This year there has been way too many. Where not even two full months into 2018, and there have already been 18 school shootings. As a student, I think maybe the congress would want to consider common - sense gun safety legislation and save innocents lives.

Can you imagine a normal day of waking up in the morning and going to school, as you are in class or walking to class you hear a loud sound and booms starts to happen. You are going to be terrified to death, because you would not know what to do. The school shootings are way out of control and the law is not really doing anything about it, So how are the students supposed to feel safe at school when they are already scared to go because of not knowing how to do the work, bullies,and getting ignored by everyone,which pretty soon all leads up to someone just snapping, and not being able to take it anymore and go on a rampage with a weapon most likely a gun and start shooting everyone or everything around him or her. There have been a lot

As of October 27, 2017, in the United States there has been a total of 273 mass shootings. The most devastating mass shooting was on October 1, 2017 at the Las Vegas Strip when Stephen Paddock shoot down on a crowd of people at a country song concert from his room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel. This shooting left 58 people dead and 515 people injured. Despite the amount of people left dead or injured from the Las Vegas Strip Massacre, majority of the Congress agreed that it is still 'premature' to be discussing legislative solutions for gun control. Unfortunately, America is repeating their same mistake by not passing a stricter gun regulation. It is time for America to change their history by placing stricter gun restriction to protect their citizens.

Imagine being a parent and walking into your child’s bedroom, seeing them lying dead in a pool of blood with a gun still in their hand. I believe there should more laws controlling who can have a gun and what kind of guns should be allowed to the public. Guns should be more regulated and less accessible to the public and there should be more laws created making it harder to buy a gun. Gun control laws are needed because it would put more control over who can buy a gun and would reduce the availability. In recent years, there has been alarming rates of mass shootings, suicides and homicides, and an increasing amount of gun related accidents.

Imagine your next door neighbor owns an AR-15, which he has turned it into an automatic weapon and his excuse is that it’s for his safety. Would this make you feel safe? There are more guns in America than there are people and most of those guns are semi-automatic weapons. These semi-automatic weapons truthfully don't serve any purpose for the average person. Most mass shootings have included some kind of a semi-automatic weapon. According to Sach since the ban of 1994, there hasn’t really been a strong push to ban semi-automatic weapons. The ban did expire in 2004 furthermore was not renewed and since then mass shootings have skyrocketed up. However, some people still try to argue that it’s for protection or for hunting or they might say something like “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people” but as Shammas said it’s time to retire that saying. From (The Math of Mass Shootings) they say there have been one those forty-eight victims killed in mass shootings, not including the shooter, also that that has been one hundred ninety-four shooters and two hundred ninety-two guns used a majority of them semi-automatic weapons. .We know guns aren't getting up and shooting people themselves, but the gun is still being used to harm another person. Also, no person needs an AR-15 for protection which carries 30 bullets and is capable of carrying 100 bullets, which is absurd to believe someone needs this much protection. Gun owners also feel like it's their right to own a

It’s the year 2017, and we are have come to a halt in our progression as a country. As we face the everyday “obstacles” of the usual routine; going to work, paying taxes, going to grocery shopping, and etc., these things seem to be seventh heaven compared to the problem that has been recurring time and time again- gun violence. In 2017 alone, 273 mass shooting have taken place between January 1st and October 2nd (A mass shooting involves four or more people injured or killed in a single event at the same time and location (Gun Violence Archive)). That’s 273 shootings in a 364-day year- looking at our year right now, that’s 75% of it tramatized by mass shootings. That is why we, the United States as a whole, needs to work together to put new laws in place for the safety of our nation, and every person living here. Laws enforcing gun education and safety for purchasers and owners. If we do not find something, anything, to put an end to this terrible problem, our world will conitnue to fall out right from under us even quicker than it is now.

Twenty-One people killed by deadly gunfire at a McDonalds in San Ysidro, California in July of 1984 (“Deadliest”, 1). Twenty-Two people gunned down with a semi-automatic pistol in a crowded cafeteria in Killeen, Texas in October of 1991. Thirty-Two individuals met deadly gunfire at a college campus in Blacksburg, Virginia in April of 2007. Twenty-Seven met a fiery end at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut in December of 2012. Forty-Nine individuals faced lethal bullet wounds at an Orlando Club in June of 2016. Fifty-Nine mercilessly attacked by open gunfire at a outdoor concert in Las Vegas, Nevada in October of 2017 in the largest mass shooting that has occurred in our country to date (“Deadliest”, 4). Our nation has a long and sad history of gun-violence that has been allowed to continue due to the lack of governmental restrictions surrounding firearms. Lawmakers have tried to balance the desire for the protection of second ammendment rights and the goal to limit gun violence, but have not achieved that goal successfully, resulting in lackluster gun control policies. It is necessary that stronger gun control policies be created in order to limit the amount of gun violence occurring in our country.