Gun Control laws have reduced Gun related deaths We all have seen on the news the horrible stories of Mass shootings at high schools colleges, movie theaters, and even elementary schools. Over fourty-nine dead and over One hundred injured in the recent Orlando Florida nightclub shooting spree. Why should we care? We should care because the next person to purchase a gun just to kill as many people as they can may kill you or your family. Whether you support safety measures or not, even if you are a “good guy with a gun”, it may not help you or your family when needed the most. The facts of Gun related deaths including suicide, homicide and accidental shootings are disconcerting and cause anxiety and fear in U.S. citizens
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Those who oppose new restriction have used the fact that there are many laws on the books currently that are not enforced resulting in higher rates of gun deaths. They also believe it is due to mental illness not being addressed. Legislation to address this issue by passing a law GVRO which gives law enforcement the ability to take guns from suspected mentally ill patients. As a Nurse who has worked in Behavioral Health I have seen multiple examples of patients who are placed in temporary custody for being a danger to themselves and others, only to find out they were released after the legal seventy-two hour period and went home and shot themselves. If at that time laws existed to ensure these patients firearms were removed from the home many of the deaths could have been prevented. “ As we see in many of the high-profile shootings that have become all too familiar-- family members and intimate partners are often the first who know their loved ones are at-risk of dangerous behavior, but lack a mechanism to separate them from firearms while in these periods of crisis.” “ The groundbreaking GVRO …show more content…
If laws had existed to keep these weapons locked up as well as educating parents of children with mental disabilities on the danger of having accessible guns available perhaps, this tragedy could have been avoided. This is the most disturbing case of a school shooting ever in the history of the United States. Although this crime did not occur in California I use it to illustrate that the accessibility of firearms and lack of laws to keep citizens safe from the criminals and terrorist must be
Those who oppose new restriction have used the fact that there are many laws on the books currently that are not enforced resulting in higher rates of gun deaths. They also believe it is due to mental illness not being addressed. Legislation to address this issue by passing a law GVRO which gives law enforcement the ability to take guns from suspected mentally ill patients. As a Nurse who has worked in Behavioral Health I have seen multiple examples of patients who are placed in temporary custody for being a danger to themselves and others, only to find out they were released after the legal seventy-two hour period and went home and shot themselves. If at that time laws existed to ensure these patients firearms were removed from the home many of the deaths could have been prevented. “ As we see in many of the high-profile shootings that have become all too familiar-- family members and intimate partners are often the first who know their loved ones are at-risk of dangerous behavior, but lack a mechanism to separate them from firearms while in these periods of crisis.” “ The groundbreaking GVRO …show more content…
If laws had existed to keep these weapons locked up as well as educating parents of children with mental disabilities on the danger of having accessible guns available perhaps, this tragedy could have been avoided. This is the most disturbing case of a school shooting ever in the history of the United States. Although this crime did not occur in California I use it to illustrate that the accessibility of firearms and lack of laws to keep citizens safe from the criminals and terrorist must be