...Mass Shootings in America: Who Else Is Responsible? As everyone may or may not know, murder by gun occurs almost everywhere in the world; however, in America the percentage of people killed by guns is higher than any other country. For instance, in the article published in USA Today “11 mass shootings, 11 speeches: how Obama has responded”, has reported several places where many people were killed and wounded, such as: “Fort Hood shooting, Tucson congressional event shooting, Aurora Movie Theater shooting, and Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting…etc” (Gregory). These are the places where mass shootings have happened in America, and we all might know that those tragedies are very painful and sad for Americans; especially the victim's families...
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...Day-to-Day Mass Shooting cannot be prevented By Katherine Zelaya Mass shootings have caused many controversy in our American community. People should stay at home safe instead of going to shopping centers, movie theatres, and other public places risking the danger due to all the violence and massacres going on in America. Throughout the decade there has been many cases involving interactions with people in possession of guns. Since as long as I know, mass shootings have become a global issue that has increased within the years. In addition, mass shootings have doubled within the past 10 years, not to mention, these crimes have resulted in numerous deaths, due to the wrong people in possession of firearms. Occurrences like...
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...growing number of mass shootings in the United States has begun to heavily impact American morale causing panic and fear to spread across the country. The upsurge of shootings in public places has captured media coverage and is generating the perception that public shootings are an irreversible consequence of freedom. However, how can America idly sit by and not enact drastic measures to battle against these atrocious actions? What is the true cause and purpose behind the enactment of violence through gunplay in a school atmosphere? These questions must be resolved in order to prevent unfortunate events such as the Red Lake...
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...laughing together on their way to school. It was a normal, promising day in the small town of Littleton, Colorado. But in a few hours, that beautiful day suddenly became a horrible nightmare the world would not soon forget. At approximately 11:10 am, two teenage students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, arrived at the front doorsteps of Columbine High School. About two minutes later, Eric and Dylan walked into their school cafeteria where they had placed two duffle bags filled entirely with twenty pound bombs, simply waiting for the bombs to explode inside of their vehicles. Shortly after, Eric and Dylan began a horrific shooting spree in both the cafeteria and the library. By 11:35 am they managed to kill twelve students, an instructor, and wounded at least twenty other students. Shortly after...
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...are 88.8 guns. Containing only 5% of the population, the U.S. held 31% of the world’s mass shooters, according to a study done by Adam Frankford, who led a study in mass shootings from 1966 to 2012. In another study, a reporter Adrienne LaFrance projected that more people will die from shootings than in car accidents in 2020. We’re also number one worldwide for number of mass shootings. Yay America! So with these huge mass shootings being a recurring issue that we constantly see in the news, the question of the second amendment comes to mind. To refresh, the second amendment states: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep...
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...Americans. In 2017 alone, there were over 300 shootings across the nation, resulting in almost 12 000 deaths, more than 13 000 injuries, and an unmeasurable amount of people in sorrow. With more gun control in America, we can get rid of the outdated laws surrounding firearm usage and ownership, protect the future of the country, and enhance safety in communities. Good morning/afternoon Mr. Beauregard and 9C. With thousands of deaths each year solely from guns, doesn’t that tell you anything? The necessity of gun control...
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...There should be stricter regulations on guns in the United States. Politicians, in recent years especially, have had very hotly debated discussions about gun control in America. Both sides of the arguments are driven by fear. People who want easy accessibility to guns are afraid of being without protection, while people who want more regulations on guns are afraid of senseless gun violence. Many pro-gun people are immediately put off by gun reforms without consideration of how valuable the reforms could be to the overall violence problem in America. Australia, for example, has very strict gun laws but people still have guns, and there is hardly any gun violence. The current gun laws in the United States have been insufficient in controlling...
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...Some people say its not the persons fault, it's the guns. The school shootings and mass shootings that have been happening, people are not blaming the person but the gun or the mental issues the people have, that have been showing up in most of the recent mass shootings. Although people say guns should be banned completely to prevent the mass shootings, we shouldn't have to ban them we should just put more restrictions and laws that make it harder to get guns, that would prevent small crimes and mass murders and shootings while people can still self defend and hunt for game in america. Background and mental health checks in the gun buying process would help prevent small crimes with robberies because if the buyer has previous crimes on...
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...Should Assault Rifles be Banned in America? Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, 17 dead. Route 91 Harvest Music Festival, Las Vegas 58 dead. Pulse Nightclub in Orlando Florida, 49 dead. Sandy Hook Elementary School, Connecticut, 26 dead. All these mass shootings have one thing in common, the perpetrator used an assault rifle. An assault rifle is a rapid-fire, magazine-fed automatic rifle designed for infantry use, most commonly used in the military. If you have been on Instagram or looked at the news lately, you would see that in America, the call for banning assault rifles has been more popular than ever. With events like March For Our Lives that have sparked this debate, started by teenagers just like us, I decided to choose my topic on why assault rifles should or shouldn’t be banned in America. Because we are talking guns, I should make sure everyone understands...
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...Gunning for Control In recent days, months and years, our world has witnessed some unthinkable events of violence slaughter and death. Whether it be school shootings, racially and hate fuelled attacks or plagues of terrorism, there is never a time when we switch on the news and don’t hear of another distressing account of annihilation. Who or what are the culprits? No-one knows for sure. But a main factor in America’s case is guns. Since the Dunblane massacre of 16 innocent primary school children along with 1 teacher and the perpetrator himself of March 1996, shock resonated throughout the United Kingdom. The result: a ripple of gun control movements across the UK which led to a tightening of our gun laws and accessibility. Since then,...
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...The news is plagued with mass shootings and violence, making it seem as if America’s gun problem revolves around them. America has many gun problems, including mass shootings, but suicide leads to the most gun deaths per year. When the discussion for gun violence revolves around mass shootings, it makes it harder to decrease gun violence. Many studies show that homicides and mass shootings are slowly decreasing or leveling out, while suicides have been gradually increasing since the 90’s (Sanger-Katz, 2015, para 8). The media covers news stories involving mass shootings, homicides, and homicide-suicides, but rarely covers stories about suicide. Suicide is a well-avoided topic in America; it makes people uncomfortable to talk about mental illness. People also avoid talking about suicide on media because it brings embarrassment to the family involved and leaves a stigma that makes it harder for people with depression to ask for help (Masters, 2016, para 3-4). Additionally, it gives people the idea to commit suicide if they are feeling hopeless. This is especially true for the younger population. While I was in high school, my school either had no suicides or over five consecutive suicides in one year. However, because it is a sensitive...
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...Starting the New Year off, many enjoy making resolutions and goals for a new upcoming year. On New Years Eve, America fell short in making a resolution of safety and peace throughout the county. Eleven weeks into 2018 the country has seen more violence and shootings ever. Ringing in the new year with forty nine cases of mass violence including seventeen school shootings. What is one leading cause of this outbreak in mass violence? The failure tend to mental illnesses with support or outreach available to those with violent tendencies and symptoms. Although most of the mass shooting that have occurred across the world were caused by white male figures, especially in the United States, women have shown more mental illnesses cases. Dating back to 1982 to present 2018, men were in charge of 94 mass shootings, 2 were created by women, and lastly 2 occurrences were with both a male and female role. According to NIMH, or the National Institute of Mental Health,...
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...United States has a long history of gun culture. Stemmed from its colonial history, America experienced revolutionary roots and frontier expansion. The Second Amendment states: "A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a Free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." So far, America has the largest total number of guns in the world-- about 270,000,000 guns in the nation, and the highest per capita number -- 88.8 guns per 100 people, in the world. Statistics shows that 22% of Americans own one or more guns (35% of men and 12% of women). Gun control is regulation restricting or limiting the sale and...
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...the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed” (Second Amendment) . This specific amendment dates back to England before Magna Carta when the Protestants were allowed to possess and carry guns although Catholics were not allowed. The interpretation of this depends on who is doing the interpreting (Second Amendment (1791)). The first school shooting happened in Greencastle, Pennsylvania in July of 1764, which killed the headmaster and either nine or ten children (School Shootings in the U.S. 1900-Present). Throughout the eighteen hundreds there were numerous school shootings. Also in the nineteen hundreds there were school shootings and America did not start the upheavals about guns and shooting children in schools until the late 1980’s or early 1990’s. In an eighteen year period from 1992 to 2010 there were a total of 240 homicides and 373 deaths attributed to school shootings (List of school shootings from 1700 to 2010). Looking through history of mass killings around the world, there is plenty to go around. Starting in July 1914 and going through December 2012. This is for all mass killings that involve a gun. The one that still is the...
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...it does not stop shootings. Gun control will not contribute to stopping mass shootings for many reasons. This is due to a variety of reasons including misinformation, lack of focus on daily gun violence and the mentally ill not receiving proper treatment. Misinformation is a huge problem when it comes to gun control or just guns. It can lead to lousy laws being passed and a misinformed public. In the article I used to think gun control was the answer. By Leah Libresco, she claims (referring to assault weapons) “It’s an invented classification that includes any semi-automatic that has two or more features.” This shows us how people can be misinforming by labeling “scary guns” as “assault weapons”. Libresco also claims “ An ar-15 with a silencer is as loud as a jackhammer.” this supports that misinformation is a problem because many people think putting a silencer on a gun will make it very hard to hear like in movies and videogames. This is not true and is a wild misrepresentation of what gun accessories do....
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