The abundance of guns in America has immeasurable consequences that are felt every day through gun violence, mass shooting, mass incarceration, and increasingly militarized law enforcement agencies.
America is obsessed with guns.
History explains how guns ended up all around the world, and U.S. corporations like Boeing and Lockheed Martin are the largest global exporters of weapons accounting for about half of the worldwide gun sales totaling over $80 billion dollars.
Not to mention the even greater sums that the U.S. government is spending buying the deadliest weapons then selling them to heavily militarize police forces, essentially subsidized twice by taxpayers.
The NEARLY 1 to 1 ratio of guns to people in this country is the result of …show more content…
They fail to tackle some of these social inequities and inequalities and the structures that promote inequality. Gun violence is a social problem that represents more than just the loss of lives: the economic toll on society is huge.
The distribution of wealth and income, the issue of racially segregated communities, the under-resourced and underfunded social welfare infrastructure that seems to take a hit in the current administration is something I will not stop talking about.
I am a person that has survived gun violence in my own life and just like then, I was tired of being silent, tired of being threatened with death every day, tired of hearing the “Spin and Click of the hammer, as he played “Russian Roulette” to the back of my forehead every night, tired of watching the terror in my child’s eyes, so
I will not be silenced any longer. I support the Constitution and the Second Amendment, But:
1. It doesn’t guarantee the right to carry weapons of
America is obsessed with guns.
History explains how guns ended up all around the world, and U.S. corporations like Boeing and Lockheed Martin are the largest global exporters of weapons accounting for about half of the worldwide gun sales totaling over $80 billion dollars.
Not to mention the even greater sums that the U.S. government is spending buying the deadliest weapons then selling them to heavily militarize police forces, essentially subsidized twice by taxpayers.
The NEARLY 1 to 1 ratio of guns to people in this country is the result of …show more content…
They fail to tackle some of these social inequities and inequalities and the structures that promote inequality. Gun violence is a social problem that represents more than just the loss of lives: the economic toll on society is huge.
The distribution of wealth and income, the issue of racially segregated communities, the under-resourced and underfunded social welfare infrastructure that seems to take a hit in the current administration is something I will not stop talking about.
I am a person that has survived gun violence in my own life and just like then, I was tired of being silent, tired of being threatened with death every day, tired of hearing the “Spin and Click of the hammer, as he played “Russian Roulette” to the back of my forehead every night, tired of watching the terror in my child’s eyes, so
I will not be silenced any longer. I support the Constitution and the Second Amendment, But:
1. It doesn’t guarantee the right to carry weapons of