...Lloyd Shaw February 3, 2014 Gun Violence What can we do about the increase in gun violence? In recent years gun violence has escalated and has become an epidemic not only in our communities, but all over the world. Something has to be done to decrease the number of deaths and injuries that occurs from gun violence. For a number of years now Memphis, TN, the city where I live has been nationally known as a city that is plagued by violence ranking second to Washington D.C. when it comes to violent crimes committed by guns. Studies released by the FBI ranked Memphis as one of the top three most dangerous cities in America. This year according to statistics, Memphis ranked second to Detroit and has some of the most dangerous neighborhoods to live in. Almost every other day, you can turn on your television set and hear about someone getting shot in Memphis. Just last summery brother and I became a target of gun violence. Thank God I didn’t get hurt but, my brother wasn.t so lucky. My brother and I were sitting outside in the yard when a person walked up and opened fire on us. I wasn’t hurt, but my brother was shot seven times but survived his injuries. After looking at these studies and statistics, it is evident that guns themselves, are not the cause of violence in our communities but the criminals who decide to kill and injury others. In finding a solution to gun violence, Guns should be taken away from these criminals and the real cause of violence must be dealt with. In my opinion...
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...Montero, Celina Lopez-Ponce, Pre-IB Inquiry Skills, Period 1 Research Paper Final Draft 17 March 2015 School Violence in Southern Florida Gun violence has led to more shootings in schools in Southern Florida and in order to help diminish the numbers in casualties more of the gun laws should be reinforced and strengthened. School reputations are being affected tremendously. Students that experience extremely traumatizing events, specifically a school shooting, will be driven toward lower academic levels and will have their behavior altered as well; such events have brought families closer together for the wrong reasons. Violence in schools is not dealt with appropriately, thus why it has reached a point where it endangers students of all ages. Parents, teachers and the school staff should try to do everything in their power to prevent school violence, this can ruin the children’s future. A school’s reputation is very important, especially to the incoming students and their parents. A parent is more likely to not send their child to a school with a record, especially when it has to do with violence. Violent students have the possibility to influence and harm the lives of others. Violent students most likely do not do their work and or participate, the more students with low academic levels, the worse it is for the school, resulting in the schools grade going from a higher grade level for example an A school to a C school. Students will never be able to...
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...Personally I have little experience with guns. The only person that I am close to and owns a gun is my Cousin. In high school I took a hunter education class and I learned the proper techniques to using specific weapons. Even though I've never been hunting I have a hunting license. The experience I have had with guns hasn't been good nor bad so it shouldn't influence my view. The most important part is to protect innocent people. The guns are not the problem, we are the problem. Removing guns completely would not solve anything. People would just find other ways to commit crimes and/or kill innocent people. "Mental Health" is used and an "excuse" for gun violence. More people who are perfectly "sane" commit crimes than people with "Mental Health" issues. The only way the violence can stop is if we change ourselves first. The fact that video games make it fun to kill hundreds of people is the problem. A compromise can be made. The first thing should be universal background checks. This should have been implemented years ago. This will lower the number of people who shouldn't have a gun from owning one. The banishment of military style weapons should be the next. These types of weapons are made to kill large amounts of people as fast as possible. These weapons are not for sport or protection and should be banned. Schools should also be given the option to have more armed guards in schools. This may not solve all the problems but it’s a good...
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...GUN VIOLENCE | Gun Violence There are so many whose deaths did not make the front page. There were the six children, their mother and boyfriend in Houston, Texas shot. The nine worshippers in church in Charleston, SC. The 28-year-old mother of two in Indianapolis whose husband shot her in the face 13 times. Mascia said,” the two young, reporters shot during a live news broadcast in Moneta, Virginia” (Mascia, J 2015). They never saw it coming, none of these people thought they were targets. My son, shot in the back 2 times while getting out of his truck, in his front yard 10:30 at night . While so many victim’s names disappear quickly from the public eye, they never leave the hearts of the family’s that deal with the loss. Their stories live on in the statistics that help us understand the scale of gun violence in the United States. It’s not only the individuals, but the mass shooting in the schools, malls, games or anywhere that a group of people were shot. Gun Violence is a major problem, because it is putting too much violence in our streets, no research is being done, numbers are not being reported correctly. In Addition, because of gun violence in the United States, on average 320 people shot with firearms a day. Approximately 90 of those people die from their wounds. Funding for gun research “going in the wrong direction,” (Hemenway, 2015,1). Mr. Hemenway looks at everything in a scientific way, and believes that instead of blame we should find a solution...
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...Introduction There has been a rapid increase in violence in over the past few months with 19 murder record and 12 of them related to gun violence according to Today newspaper. It has been consider by the public and some government ministers that this increase is due to the constant exposure of violence in video games. The relationship between violent video games and the rise in gun violence is one for some serious debate and considerable amounts of research. The debate about if violent video games can lead to real life acts of gun violence has come to the forefront due to the recently increase of video games that encourages the players to commit illegal acts. Still, the question reminds, do violent games encourage gun violence, or is there no effect? First, Gun violence is violence committed with the use of a gun (firearm or small arm). It may or may not be considered criminal. Criminal gun violence includes homicide (except when and where ruled justifiable), assault with a deadly weapon, and suicide, or attempted suicide, depending on jurisdiction and a video game is an electronic game that involves human interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device such as a TV screen or computer monitor (definition Wikipedia). To determine if there is a link between gun violence and video games we must first look at who actually plays these games and why there are so popular. Video games such as Call of Duty: Black Ops II, Grand Theft Auto V and Halo...
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...How to solve gun violence in the US ? United States is the developped contrie with the most mass murder. In fact there are more US citizens killed by gun in their country than US military in operations. Here are some points that show the solutions wich can be applied to decrease the amount of gun violence among the Us. 1 Gun safety: Establish a culture of gun safety. Us is the nation on earth with the most guns, It must make sure people are protected. As a starting point, if we want better gun regulation we should insist on a mandatory training and a licensing along with safe-and secure-gun storage. Gun owners should be required to regularly refresh their training and renew their permits, with requirements at least as stringent as those governing renewal of your driver's license. 2 Mental health treatment: The United States should ensure accessible, high quality widely accessed mental health treatment for people who carry a gun. While gun ownership has been rising, mental health services across the country have been slashed. 3 Sensible gun laws: Ban high capacity magazines, expand the 24 hour gun background check, reinstitute the assault weapons ban. It is important to show that assault weapons belongs on the battlefield and not in schools, not in movie theaters, nor in the streets. 4 Public health solutions: Recognize gun violence as a critical and preventable public health problem. Gun violence is a leading cause of premature death in the United States...
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...In recent years gun violence has increased significantly in various parts of the world. There are more cases of children and young adults engaging in violence or getting caught in the crossfire. There has been debate over whether gun laws are strict enough and what else can be done to reduce such acts from occurring. With more lives being affected on a regular basis, more concerns arise as to how people can live safe lives when guns are being used in increasing numbers. It is shameful to say that almost every day you hear about some sort of gun violence affecting people either in your hometown or in another part of the world. Years ago gun violence had its issues but nothing like what is going on it current society. While there are events that have occurred that seem shocking, sad and pointless, similar actions have occurred decades ago; except they didn’t seem to occur as frequently as they do today. Gun violence has grown into an international crisis. Some people feel we should ban guns altogether, while others feel this would be impossible. Getting rid of guns may help remedy the issue but it may not be enough to make the problem go away. There are certain parts of the world that has already banned guns and similar weapons. The problem here is people can still smuggle them in. Other parts of the world have certain types of guns that are illegal for citizens to have in their possession. Eliminating guns from the equation is just a part of the problem. You have people that...
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...Authors Point of View: After reading the article on gun violence by Jeff Nesbit, I believe he wrote the article in search of answers. He brings up an interesting issue in questioning if gun violence is a public health epidemic. He is suggesting that the government give money to federal science agencies, such as the CDC, to research how many people die from gun violence every year, and use the information found in that research to find the root of the problem and try to stop it. He recognizes that groups such as Cure Violence are actively trying to stop this violence in some communities but suggests that these organizations could benefit from facts about the subject found through scientific research. He also believes the NRA is lobbying the government to block this research. He mentions how people are only concerned about the problem when a tragedy happens and then forget about it until the next one occurs. I think his main intention of writing this article was to get peoples attention and call on the government to try and find a solution to this problem that occurs daily and is seeming growing in this country, instead of just acknowledging it, grieving, and then eventually shrugging it off whenever a tragedy happens. Opinion: Although I agree with some points Nesbitt makes, overall I disagree that the government should spend money to research gun violence as a public health “epidemic”. The definition of epidemic can be found as, “the widespread occurrence of a disease...
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...Critical Analysis Essay In reading “The Trouble with Geniuses Part 1 and 2”, Malcolm Gladwell has presented his purpose and a strong argument to the fact that talent can only lay the foundation for a person to succeed in life. The talent that is continuously discussed in this reading is a persons IQ, or Intelligence Quotient. A man named Christopher Langan is discussed throughout both chapters and is a clear example of a person with extreme IQ. Although Langan demonstrates a superior IQ, he never reached his true potential. Gladwell maintains that intelligence, even extreme intelligence, has a threshold. Having a high IQ is an advantage, but being smarter than others does not automatically make one more successful. “The relationship between success and IQ works only up to a point” (79). A person not only has to be smart enough but when you factor in opportunities that are taken full advantage of, that person’s success greatly increases. Gladwell further proves his point in these chapters when he explains a study done by Lewis Terman. Terman performed standardized IQ testing for geniuses and attempted to demonstrate that a person who showed a genius IQ rating would clearly determine the success of that individual. Terman’s results between Group’s A, B, and C reemphasized Gladwell’s point that mere intelligence is not the sole identifier that leads to a person’s success. Terman concluded, with more than a touch of disappointment, “that intellect and achievement are far from...
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...the ownership of assault weapons. These types of weapons, specifically rifles, have become quite a novelty for gun enthusiasts, but a very small number of the population has used these weapons to create scenes of horrific violence. Is there really a need for these types of weapons in our country? Would an actual ban produce the effects that most gun control activists envision? I personally feel that the blame cannot be put in just one place. When discussing gun violence, it can be argued that the weapons are not to blame, but the person who is in control of them. To contrast that way of thinking, fault can also be found with the types of semiautomatic weapons sold to the public and how easy they are to acquire. Assault weapons that would be subject the kind of gun ban that has...
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...Guns Are Not the Problem, People Are Violence in school environments have become a major issue, and there are many precautions we can take to prevent this violence. Precautions such as better background checks before purchasing a gun will greatly decrease deaths due to gun violence. In America, the average number of school shootings is approximately 1.37 per week (Davies). There are too many lives lost throughout the year to gun violence. It is time for America to step it up when addressing the flaws in the laws and regulations in the systems. Seeing that gun violence in school environments have recently become such an issue, the United States must address these issues head on by enforcing more and existing laws and change the laws that contain imperfections. Gun violence has not only spread throughout the United States but also in many other countries as well. On an average day in America, there are at least ninety-six deaths resulting from gun violence (Guns). Every day, seven teens and children from ages zero to nineteen die due to gun violence. This means that four out of...
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...Jost’s article on gun control discusses the tragic Virginia Tech incident, as well as other gun-related instances. Precautions that should be considered in hopes of preventing other unfortunate incidents are also found throughout the article. It explains how the Virgin Tech shooting could have been avoided if shooter, Seung-Hui Cho, was unable to purchase the gun if his record of mental illness had been fed into the federal background check system. Jost also disputes the opinions of many gun advocates that want to ease weapon laws (Jost). “One hundred percent safety is a fallacy for all of us – not just colleges and universities, but for general society” (Jost). Although everyone is subject to danger of some kind, the United States has experienced a large number killings and injuries due to gun violence. Sadly, gun violence claims about 30,000 lives a year. A number of precautionary procedures should be set in place to help combat gun violence, but Congress has failed to act. Felons, terrorists, domestic abusers, and the extremely violent mentally ill remain to have easy access to firearms and ammunition due to weak gun laws (States United to Prevent Gun Violence). Stronger measures needed to protect society against gun violence are intensive screening and background checks, synchronized licensing and registration systems in all states and territories, and elimination of the trafficking of illegal guns. Society and families are safer when negligent gun sales and use are...
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...Psychological Analysis of Firearm Misuse and the Public Perspective of Firearm Violence Colin R. Moran Columbus State Community College, Ohio Abstract Every year, more and more people are subjected to the lifelong fear created by events of isolated firearm misuse. This paper will explore the psychological aspects of firearm misuse, question the means which the media uses to distribute information about the events, and apply published research from various reliable sources to conclude the problems created by the methods we approach this issue. This research will also discuss the many hardships that the experts face in predicting and preventing these events, while suggesting possible changes that might lead to improved accuracy and...
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...For many years in the United States of America, gun violence has been a major issue because a lot of people die from this malicious act. “Compared to 22 other high-income nations, the United States' gun-related murder rate is 25 times higher” (Preidt). By looking at this fact, one can clearly infer that Americans suffer from a severe case of gun violence and that this issue needs to be taken care of. Furthermore, gun violence has a psychological impact on families because they have to mourn over the death of their loved ones (which creates emotional scars) and in some cases children develop posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which can affect brain development at an early age. Currently in the U.S., gun related murders are prominent in Chicago,...
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...battle deciding if your pro government’s choice or hate it with all your guts with their decision. In order to have a peaceful and civilized society we must come to some mid point to accept and argue respectfully with there being no violence to stir up. Maintaining order, public goods, and equality all share one aspect and that is they all affect us everyday of our lives. Maintaining order and equality correlate with the peace and violence that occurs everyday in our society. Whether that be violent protest about equality or maintaining order from people doing whatever they want. The government should play a role in our lives because it ensures equal opportunity, regulations, and peace in our society. Equal opportunity exemplifies a conflicting problem for hundreds of years. As far back when there was slaves in the south and to this day equal opportunity has brought violent protest and many lives to be cut short. This...
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