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    as; people shooting each other, people shooting at a crowd and killing tens and hundreds of people happens quite usually. But one incident that stuck with me to this day is the suicide of a young boy near my middle school. When I was around 9 or 10 years old I remember the day one of my friend's relative's committed suicide using his father’s gun. It was the end of a school day, the street and the area in front of his house were packed with people and cars. The police car and the ambulance, both were

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    many individuals’ attention, mass murder and amok. However, taking the topic into a new light and applying it to the coined phrase suicide by cop. Hagan, Podlogar and Joiner all suggest I different perspective on mass murder and amok by stating how the main goal for the perpetrator is their wish to die. Which brings them to an important topic of how these cases of extreme violence is driven by suicidal urges. Furthermore is connection between mass murder and violent suicide characteristics. Similarly

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    A mass shooting is defined as “one that kills or injures 4 or more people.” In 2015 alone there was 372 mass shootings in the U.S in 2015 that killed 475 people and wounded 1,870. The largest mass shooting in America happened in Las Vegas on October 1, 2017. In Las Vegas, the gunman (Stephen Paddock) opened fire on a crowd at a Route 91 Harvest music festival. Stephen Paddock killed 59 people and injured 527. Before this, the largest mass shooting had been in June 12, 2016 when a 29-year-old security

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    include: celebrity suicides, terrorism, and all sorts of crimes. The first way that the copycat takes storm is in terms of suicides by celebrities. This phenomenon is one that people have been discussion for some time. This is when a certain celebrity commits suicides; the number of suicides for some time is increased due to this person committing suicide. “After [a] celebrity suicide, the number of suicide-related articles reported surged around 80 times in the week after the suicide compared with the

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    With the rates of suicides on the climb, and firearms being the number one lethal method of committing suicide, more people are able to commit brutal, horrible and more bone chilling suicides. Whether or not people decide to take their lives, the stricter laws can stop one of the easiest ways to commit this terrible act. This is why the accessibility of

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    lead to fewer suicides, banning high-capacity magazines would prevent mass shootings and murders, stricter gun control laws have worked in other countries by leading to lower homicide and suicide rates than the United States, and guns are rarely used in self-defense and they do not decrease crime rates. Stricter gun control laws would reduce the number of handgun deaths and injuries in the United States per year. There were 464,033 total gun deaths between 1999 and 2013: 58% were suicides, 38% were homicides

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    2016 Gun Violence The Problems and Solutions Gun violence has been around for centuries and there have been many mass shootings, homicides and suicides. There is always the argument on “do guns kill people” or “do people kill people”? What people really need to be looking at is the problem which is people stocking up on guns and not knowing how to properly handle them and all the mass shootings that are taking place. As a country, people need to be coming up with solutions instead of doing nothing

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    of sixty-two mass shootings done by Mother Jones, about forty-nine of the weapons were bought legally! Twelve of were obtained through illegal methods, and the last one was unknown (Follman). Whether mentally fit or not, loose gun control laws allow those untrustworthy to buy guns and possible commit heinous acts. The addition of strict gun control laws can reduce deaths and crimes rates by firearms drastically, as gun ownership decreases and new regulation can prevent horrific accidents from

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    of a mass shooting and has not had any ever since. In America, gun control laws allow citizens to easily gain access to firearms. Because firearms are so prevalent, mass shootings are common as well. Other things that are results of lenient gun control laws are increased suicide rate, homicide, and injuries and deaths due to accidentally mishandled firearms (Miller, Hemenway, 2008; Azrael, Hemenway, Miller, 2000; Annest, Hargarten, Hootman, Mercy, Ryan, 2000). 53% of all completed suicides were

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    Lenin. This quote describes how one person with a gun has so much control over many others that don’t. It is a good example of what is going on in society today because of all the shootings that have taken place in public, churches, and schools. These mass shootings have created such controversy as to whether or not there should be more gun control laws. On November 5, 2017, Devin Patrick Kelley began shooting inside of the Sutherlands Springs Church killing more than 20 people including children. Before

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