Gun Violence Essay

With the apparent escalation of gun violence on college campuses and educational facilities, and the current ability of the news media to notify citizens as it occurs, the topic of protection and prevention is a high priority in the country. Understandably, due to the foreboding anticipation of such tragedy occurring again and again throughout time, the subject will not rest, but how it is addressed and transmitted through our culture is of significance in society. As expected, many express…

“Since 1968, there have been 1.516 million gun related deaths on United States territory compared to the 1.396 million war casualties since the founding of the U.S.” (Hristova). Mike McLively, director of Giffords Law Center’s Urban Gun Violence Initiative, said gun violence “is silently affecting everyone and determines whether or not you live in a safe community or not.” Although not all are directly affected by this terrible act of violence, mass shootings are an issue for the United States…

corners how many more” (Coalition, 2012). I will analyze, gun violence in videos that contain multiple fallacies. These campaigns include ad verecundiam, straw argument, and slippery slope fallacies on gun control and gun violence. “Ad verecundiam fallacy uses people of a higher authority or of tradition to appeal to the audience” (Borchers, 2012). According to Demand A Plan, all of the celebrities joining the cause against gun violence grab’s the attention of viewers. In the campaign video for…

Gun Violence on campus has been a recurring issue in the past several years with several instances of the mass shooting like the ones in Arizona state university and on Virginia tech. “.Timothy Wheeler wrote a piece called “There 's a reason they choose schools” which was published On May 1,2007,in the issue of National Review.In this article,Wheeler talks about how there may need to be a need to allow guns on campus so we can better protect ourselves against shooters.Another piece used is the…

The controversy of guns is a never ending battle in both the political and social world. Although gun violence has been on a dramatic decline since the 1990’s more specifically from 725 people per 100,000 falling victim to gun violence in 1993 to a relative low of 175 in 2013. With this information, the question arises as to why do we care so much about guns now? Although individual crimes involving guns have decreased, the rate of mass shootings occurring in the United States is sending shivers…

What are good ways to improve gun violence? The political and social debate over the question of how much gun control is appropriate has been an extremely polarized one for several decades. The term gun control as it is used in the United States refers to any action taken my the federal government or by the state or local governments to regulate, through legislation, the sale, purchase, safety, and use of handguns and other types of firearms by individual citizens. Discussions on the topic…

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In 2009-2016, gun violence occurred in the United States 156 times (Every Town, 2017). “These incidents resulted in 1,187 victims shot: 848 people were shot and killed, and 339 people were shot and injured” (Every Town, 2017) According to our graphs, we have information about where people are more at risk. It also shows countries that carry more guns, and many criminals have warning symptoms in advance. Analysis of the data revealed the causes of the gun shootings: • Family…

Americans die from being shot by a gun (National Center For Health Statistics). Every week we hear on the news about a death by a gun at a shooting. On October 1, 2015 a shooting happened in Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon. This shooting killed ten people and wounded several others. President Obama has now spoken that the United States might be having a new law change, which is the government buying back everyone's guns. Although it sounds like guns can only be used for bad they can…

explaining the issue of gun violence on American. Based on the Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner (1996-2016), it is been stated that the human rights can be defined as the equality and rights that enabled to all human without discrimination either in terms of language, religion, nationality, sex, colour, national, ethnic origin and etc. where all of this rights that been received by the human are interconnected, inseparable and interdependent. The United State gun violence had…

Oregon became victims in a heart wrenching and growing epidemic: gun violence in America (OR Live). In the three years since the horrific mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary, 972 mass shootings have taken place and more than 82,000 Americans lost their lives at the hands of gun violence but little to no action has been taken to curtail the rise of gun violence in the United States (Lopez 2015). While the problem of gun violence in America is complex, the solution is simple. Universal…