Gun violence with has been the cause of the deaths of many American adults and children. According to BBC News, there were about 372 mass shootings in the United States in the year of 2015. There was 2015 Umpqua Community College shooting that had killed ten people and wounded 20 by the end of the day. People thought of the shooting with a collective shrug which means that they saw it as another common occurrence and ignored it. The collective shrug shows how America has been comfortable about shootings. There is one major reason why these shootings occur, faulty gun control. The second amendment, which gives us the right to bare arms, states that anyone has the right to own a weapon, but the amendment does not allow gun owners to use it for
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There must be a catalyst to the mass shootings, and three university professors researched the topic. To illustrate, the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting. The shooter’s name was Seung-Hui Cho, a shy senior. Although he was a smart kid, he could not protect himself from being bullied. He was bullied throughout his childhood by numerous individuals, even people younger than him. (Biography Editors, Paragraph 2). It is to say that most mass shooters had a troubling life during their childhood years, which had an impact on their behaviors when they grew older. The data supports the fact that if we stopped the occurrence of bullying students, there would be a tremendous impact on preventing adverse behavioral changes and it would also prevent many mass shootings from happening. In order to reduce gun violence, there should be a better program to stop bullying in addition to a gun-free program. The program for bully-free should be as influential as the drug-free program. With about the equivalent power of the drug-free program, there would be fewer bullies, creating less distress among adolescent behaviors as distress among young minds can cause anxiety and suicidal thoughts to rise; therefore, creating a catalyst for homicide (Raquel Antonio, Paragraph
There must be a catalyst to the mass shootings, and three university professors researched the topic. To illustrate, the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting. The shooter’s name was Seung-Hui Cho, a shy senior. Although he was a smart kid, he could not protect himself from being bullied. He was bullied throughout his childhood by numerous individuals, even people younger than him. (Biography Editors, Paragraph 2). It is to say that most mass shooters had a troubling life during their childhood years, which had an impact on their behaviors when they grew older. The data supports the fact that if we stopped the occurrence of bullying students, there would be a tremendous impact on preventing adverse behavioral changes and it would also prevent many mass shootings from happening. In order to reduce gun violence, there should be a better program to stop bullying in addition to a gun-free program. The program for bully-free should be as influential as the drug-free program. With about the equivalent power of the drug-free program, there would be fewer bullies, creating less distress among adolescent behaviors as distress among young minds can cause anxiety and suicidal thoughts to rise; therefore, creating a catalyst for homicide (Raquel Antonio, Paragraph