Isabella Li
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Ms. Kim English
19 December 2014 According to the Brady Campaign, over 18,000 American children and teens die yearly from gun violence with no one to stand up for them. More than 100,000 people in America are shot in murders, suicides, or by civilian interventions by usage of legal weapons. The United States needs stricter gun laws because most massacres utilize legal weaponry. For example, many people died due to easy access to gun weapons and killed the innocence of many young children who witnessed their friends’ deaths in the Adam Lanza incident where he obtained the guns his mother owned and used it against her and the school she volunteered at. According to “10 Reasons Why We Need Gun Control”, “Instead, this …show more content…
In Australia, many mass shootings, including one horrifying one that killed thirty-five people near Port Arthur, caused their government to “launch perhaps the most aggressive clamp-down on guns.” Now, assault weapons such as rifles, shotguns, and handguns, are very restricted and to get one of the firearms, many protocols must be followed and controlled to make sure another thirty-five people are not killed. The result of these many restrictions and gun laws was a fifty-nine percent drop in Australian gun-homicides. Many people may think that Australian results really don’t help with deciding America’s decision on gun control, but this shows how far gun-control can go. A fifty-nine percent drop is not something small, and these benefits could aso be applied to America, if the government had thought about helping the families and victims of all the shootings that have gone around in these fifty states, by bringing justice to them. “As for mass shootings; well, Australia’s gone all the way from eleven a decade to zero.” says the Washington Post. This is an amazing drop in mass shootings. This is not something that went on overnight, it is more like something that went through many struggles to get through but still survived. On the other hand, gun enthusiasts might say that guns are used for protection and self defense. They feel the need to keep their guns in case something bad goes on and they feel like they could help. …show more content…
In a room with dozens of armed men and women, the most logical people would think that no fights would be started. However, according to the Harvard Injury Control Research Center, “Using a validated proxy for firearm ownership, we analyzed the relationship between firearm availability and homicide across 50 states over a ten year period . After controlling for poverty and urbanization, for every age group, people in states with many guns have elevated rates of homicide, particularly firearm homicide.” This explains why people have so many shootings. Sometimes, civilians can’t help but interfere with their concealed weapons but end up being the culprit instead of the hero. It’s as simple as a math equations, more guns equals more homicides. The Boston Globe agrees in saying that guns create more deaths, “But study after study indicates that suicide is not so much a rational decision, but something people do on the spur of the moment — meaning that a lack of access to a death-shooting murder-stick at that critical moment could be the difference between life and death.” Also, they said, “In 2010, the last year for which complete numbers are available, the number of gun deaths by suicide in the United States outnumbered homicides 19,392 to 11,078.” In an exciting event, human bodies release an excess of hormones, one being adrenaline which causes the body to act before thinking. Suicide is one of those actions, because
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Ms. Kim English
19 December 2014 According to the Brady Campaign, over 18,000 American children and teens die yearly from gun violence with no one to stand up for them. More than 100,000 people in America are shot in murders, suicides, or by civilian interventions by usage of legal weapons. The United States needs stricter gun laws because most massacres utilize legal weaponry. For example, many people died due to easy access to gun weapons and killed the innocence of many young children who witnessed their friends’ deaths in the Adam Lanza incident where he obtained the guns his mother owned and used it against her and the school she volunteered at. According to “10 Reasons Why We Need Gun Control”, “Instead, this …show more content…
In Australia, many mass shootings, including one horrifying one that killed thirty-five people near Port Arthur, caused their government to “launch perhaps the most aggressive clamp-down on guns.” Now, assault weapons such as rifles, shotguns, and handguns, are very restricted and to get one of the firearms, many protocols must be followed and controlled to make sure another thirty-five people are not killed. The result of these many restrictions and gun laws was a fifty-nine percent drop in Australian gun-homicides. Many people may think that Australian results really don’t help with deciding America’s decision on gun control, but this shows how far gun-control can go. A fifty-nine percent drop is not something small, and these benefits could aso be applied to America, if the government had thought about helping the families and victims of all the shootings that have gone around in these fifty states, by bringing justice to them. “As for mass shootings; well, Australia’s gone all the way from eleven a decade to zero.” says the Washington Post. This is an amazing drop in mass shootings. This is not something that went on overnight, it is more like something that went through many struggles to get through but still survived. On the other hand, gun enthusiasts might say that guns are used for protection and self defense. They feel the need to keep their guns in case something bad goes on and they feel like they could help. …show more content…
In a room with dozens of armed men and women, the most logical people would think that no fights would be started. However, according to the Harvard Injury Control Research Center, “Using a validated proxy for firearm ownership, we analyzed the relationship between firearm availability and homicide across 50 states over a ten year period . After controlling for poverty and urbanization, for every age group, people in states with many guns have elevated rates of homicide, particularly firearm homicide.” This explains why people have so many shootings. Sometimes, civilians can’t help but interfere with their concealed weapons but end up being the culprit instead of the hero. It’s as simple as a math equations, more guns equals more homicides. The Boston Globe agrees in saying that guns create more deaths, “But study after study indicates that suicide is not so much a rational decision, but something people do on the spur of the moment — meaning that a lack of access to a death-shooting murder-stick at that critical moment could be the difference between life and death.” Also, they said, “In 2010, the last year for which complete numbers are available, the number of gun deaths by suicide in the United States outnumbered homicides 19,392 to 11,078.” In an exciting event, human bodies release an excess of hormones, one being adrenaline which causes the body to act before thinking. Suicide is one of those actions, because