The causes of gun crime are showing to have happened due to mental illness. The saying “It’s the person no the gun.” is quite relevant for this topic. A gun cannot pull its own trigger. Many cases where there has been a mass shooting. The gunman has a mental illness. The Sandy Hook Elementary shooting is an example of the gunman having a mental illness. The gunman was 20 year-old man Adam Lanza. He used guns his mother had at her house first killing her then driving her car to the Sandy Hook Elementary. “You had to buzz in and out and the whole nine yards.” (Barron). Lanza was let into the school because the principal recognized him as a former student. The buzzer did not start working until 9:30 a.m. He proceeded to two classrooms where
