Contagion Effect Research Paper

To be mentally ill, is to be incapable of measuring a situation which would normally considered to be bad to be wrong to do. Resembling a flu, many people take on a “Contagion Effect” when others do obscenities such as mass shootings It has been proven that “mass shooters have themselves admitted to be inspired by media coverage of violence” in the case of the Columbine mass murder one of the culprits admitted this. In his journal he wrote that he wished to create a phenomenon similar to the Los Angeles Riots, the Oklahoma Bombings, World War II, and Vietnam. Their desire was to leave some sort of impression on the world and thought of themselves as a higher power than just being ordinary people. The media coverage on that story sparked others …show more content…
Those who have a thirst to kill won 't be stopped with less access to guns they will just make themselves more able to obtain them from the cartel or black market. Citizens and mass murderers alike will find new and more effective ways of killing people regardless of the gun laws one will attempt to use to control them. On Infowars, Michaels Snyder claims “The United States is the #1 in the world in gun ownership, and yet it is only 28th in the world in gun murders per 100,000 people” citizens will get them illegally and just like immigrants we won 't know how many of the illegally owned weapons are out there. Moreover, one should focus on more difficult ways such as having gun tests to know the safety procedures one must do to be able to obtain a gun, and verify by means of the government that they are being kept safely and legally with random house checks for those who own guns and require a type of protective case or locker for them and if lost and or stolen to report it immediately if not they will hold them accountable to the person who obtained the gun from …show more content…
The saying that guns kill people is incorrect due to “guns themselves are morally neutral objects that become a problem only when used by dangerous people… even if dangerous people can’t get guns, they will simply use other weapons to inflict death or injury” therefore, there is more of a problem with a person’s perception of guns than the actual guns themselves. To be uneducated about the use guns is as foolish as expecting a newborn to speak, it’s just plainly inconceivable. If situations in places much alike to that of Chicago such as “nearly 80 percent of the city’s 8th graders aren’t proficient in reading and writing” how does one expect them to be able to communicate coherently about the issue they may have if the language barrier is not comprehensible. To choose gang affiliation is their best option due to the fact that the people they know in school, implying they go, are most likely affiliated and are stuck between a rock and a hard place since their only other option is an uncomfortable life of poverty with either no job or a dead end job, the choice is chosen for them from the moment they were born there. To be more educated about not only guns but the country you were born into or raised in is of crucial importance to understanding the need for safety and education of both guns and to be able to coact to live with guns safely in the general public and move past their