Mass suicide

annually. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in 2013, firearms (excluding BB and pellet guns) were used in 84,258 nonfatal injuries (26.65 per 100,000 U.S. citizens) and 11,208 deaths by homicide (3.5 per 100,000), 21,175 by suicide with a firearm, 505 deaths due to accidental discharge of a firearm, and 281 deaths due to firearms-use with "undetermined intent" for a total of 33,169 deaths related to firearms (excluding firearm deaths due to legal intervention). 1.3% of all deaths

commit suicide at an alarming rate. Often these individual acts of recklessness are not acknowledged nationally unless they result in undeniable hostility. School shootings are a direct result of these desperate unheard cries for help, culminating in mass killings causing permanent injuries both physical and psychological in nature to those surrounding the event. Preventing and predicting potential adolescent carnage is exceedingly important in the United States. The rate of adolescent suicide is steadily

death."( reasons why people comment suicide). These people are not clinically depressed, they are making the choice to take control of their own destiny. Taking control of one's own destiny or life is not something that is looked down upon in the normal everyday society. In today's world it is extremely important that people be themselves and with so many sub-cultures for the people of this world to fall into people do not want to conform to everyday society. Suicide is considered wrong to some

Whenever the Second Amendment is discussed, gun control is usually the focus of the discussion due to the connections that gun control and the Second Amendment have. Although the Second Amendment protects the individual right to firearms, the unlimited right is not. America was founded through guns, using their own arms to fight the British in order to gain independence, making it natural for America to be heavily focused on guns. However, many people have abused the weapon, making the controversial

since the 1950s, the suicide rate among young adults have tripled. Specifically, on college campuses, more than 1000 suicides per year. This makes suicide the third leading cause of death in college students (Cerel, 46). Some research suggests that college students stand at more risk for suicide ideation than their same age peers that does not attend college (Hirsch, 393). Studies that were performed at Oxford and Cambridge showed that the elevated rise of student suicide was due to the academic

Gun Control Gun control is a set of laws that regulates the buying and selling of firearms. On September 27, 2017 the New York Times wrote an article called How Gun Control Works beyond Washington. This article starts of by explaining how the population of the California condor was once declining but thanks to the ban of “toxic, lead-based ammunition.” (New York Times.) The article continues to point out that many of our republican delegates aren’t pushing to eliminate guns and are even trying

Emile Durkheim states in his book, “On Suicide: A Study in Sociology,” “Social man…is the masterpiece of existence.” This statement stands out to me because the types of suicide Emile talks about is how man and the social world interact. Emile contributed many things for sociology and one of those things would be, “developing a new methodology, which focusses on what he calls “social facts”, or elements of collective life that exist independently of and are able to exert an influence on the individual”

and 5% did not know. What do you think? Assisted suicide is murder. The definition of murder is ‘the unlawful killing of a human being when it is planned beforehand’. Assisted suicide is doctors providing the means of death beforehand. We should not allow our doctors to murder the “incurable” patients. Do you agree that death of one person by another is murder and should be treated as such instead of being legalized; both of which assisted suicide is. There are many reasons why it should not be legalized

workers being exploited by their wealthy factory owners and supervisors. Working conditions may appear to be improving in China, but most people are not able to view what is happening overseas. There are hazardous conditions as well as death and suicide in sweatshops that produce goods for these large corporations, particularly Apple, Microsoft, Dell, and Nike. These multinational corporations are motivated to obtain large profits by taking advantage of

should get the option of assisted suicide. Millions of innocent people suffer every day from physical pain such as heart failure, chronic lung problems, kidney disease, AIDS, cancer and other serious fatal problems [Hospice Report Card]. When a person with a near death illness knows when their life is over they will no longer enjoy the simple things in their life and the slightest trickle of sweat will send them to there knees in excruciating pain. Assisted suicide is legal in Oregon, Washington, and