January 1st 2017 8000 block of NW 14th Ave Miami, Florida 7 people were shot and out of the seven three of them were minors(a 15 year old and two 17 year olds). Last year was 2016, which was supposed to be a better year than 2015. But overall nothing has changed, the number of deaths in america each year is an average of 400,000 people from gun violence. Clearly nothing is being done, and if it is it isn’t enough, whatever their plan was to stop the gun violence it didn’t work and it’s not going to work. Whoever is in charge of gun control needs to be terminated, maybe Trump might be a new answer to this issue. Gun control is the set of laws or politics that regulate the manufacture, sale, transfer, possession, modification, or use of firearms …show more content…
People have had to get mental treatment, trauma reduction, states were forced to ban high capacity magazines, and more crimes were committed. (Swanson et al., 2014) 34.1% of people with lifetime mental disorders had accessible access to a gun, 4.8% of them had a firearm on their person, and 6.2% had a gun in a dangerous position for either themselves or ones surrounding them. Amongst the people who didn't have a lifetime mental disorder it was roughly the same statistics, 36.3% with access to a gun, 5% had a gun on person, and 7.3% had the gun in risky manners. Many people suffer from traumatizing events, especially children, (Collins and Swoveland, 2012) when children witness an act of violence in their homes, schools, and or community they are prone to being traumatized( Which can lead to a bigger issue). Children growing up with exposure to gun violence can provoke a variety of reactions like nightmares, anxiety, depression, tremors, and sleep disturbances. Having banned large capacity ammunition magazines earlier and properly, America could've had less mass shootings, instead a couple of people had to pay the price. For example the 6 adults and 20 children at Sandy Hook elementary school, 30 round magazines which gave him the ability to shoot 154 rounds in less than five minutes. In Tucson, Arizona 6 people were …show more content…
Gun violence…. We know we can't stop every act of violence”. That was for the year of 2016 it’s 2017 and there were over 500,000 deaths by guns of the year 2016. Safe communities were a part of a new plan for gun control, supporting citywide planning, prevention, intervention, enforcement, rehabilitation and reentry. Public health solutions, because gun violence is a leading cause of premature deaths in the US. (Prevention Institute,n o date) Another thing could be giving back CDC, the national public health agency are now restricted from making better sensible ways to reduce the gun violence, it'd probably be best for that restriction be removed. People tend to believe that guns are dangerous and that they are but it's not so much of the guns themselves because guns can be used in many different ways. It's the person holding the gun, people are the ones making a mess with this and only people can fix this problem. Guns are used for protection, but also having guns in any household is statistically dangerous. (Lott, 2016) Certain countries like Jamaica, Ireland, Wales, and England made strict gun laws, where guns and handguns were banned. Later on those countries realized a raise in murder rates. Is gun control really a solution or is it more of a reason to rebel? People believe that if a background check is checked on a person that it’s one less