Gun violence in the United States

Gun Control a Societal Necessity Thirty-two students, faculty, and staff killed at Virginia Tech. Twenty-seven people, including 20 elementary schoolchildren killed in Newtown, Connecticut. Nine people killed during a prayer service at a church in Charleston, South Carolina. Four Marines and one Navy petty officer shot and killed at armed forces recruiting center in Chattanooga, Tennessee. (Berkowitz, Gamio, Lu, Lindeman, & Uhrmacher, 2016). These are the headline stories that make the news…

The right of gun ownership has been a rhetorical controversy to the citizens in the U.S. One might favor it, others disagree with the idea. It’s like the conflict between Republican and Democrat, one support it and the other ban it. This topic has reflected in my research base on what I feel about gun ownership. My research proposal is, should we outlaw gun ownership or no, or neither in Arizona? The dependent variable of this research is the percentage of people in Tucson who agree or disagree…

long debate on gun control and the effect that it has on modern society has been an ongoing issue. Although it takes the action of pulling the trigger to ignite the gun, in today’s modern world, it is far to easy for people to obtain such weapons. Between the social problems that have recently arose and the increase in the amount of gun-related deaths, the improvement of the restrictions on gun control are something that our country needs to take into consideration. Generally, gun control…

themselves are killed every year by guns. There is an argument going on about whether or not to ban guns or keep them legal to buy in the United States. Guns should stay legal to buy, because most guns’ people kill other people with are illegal and bought off the black market. So many people's lives would be changed by this if they made guns illegal to buy. It should stay legal to buy and use guns because most guns found in crime scenes are illegally purchased, most guns are used for…

Gun Control {Gun Control – Pro} A criminal breaks into your house. What do you do? With gun control the criminal knows that you don’t have a gun and won’t hesitate to do or take whatever he pleases. In addition, the criminal will most likely have some type of weapon on him, but you won’t, and he’ll be able to kill you easily. Without gun control chances are, criminals won’t break into your house as much. Why? Because of the uncertainty of whether you have a gun or not. Everyone with a gun…

pointed to guns as the culprit of those horrors, however the truth remains that people don’t take guns to court, but the person who shot the gun. And there is a reason for that. Although banning guns would make it more difficult to get ahold of them, guns shouldn’t be banned because it may not lower the crime rate and because of our Constitutional right to keep them. The statement heard all of the time now is that guns kill people, that guns are the leading cause of death in the US, and that…

2003, in cold Chicago, Illinois. A man robbed a local home. As a result, the victim of the house took a gun and shot the burglar. The criminal was taken to a hospital to be taken care of, while the owner faced charges and prosecutions since the town had a gun ordinance ban. If it was not for the law abiding citizen, this man would have gotten away with theft and possibly assault (Wheeler 20). Gun control will altogether cause more problems in America than it will produce solutions. Yes there are…

Many news sources covered gun violence and potential gun policies in the wake of the Umpqua Community College shooting in Oregon. Each news outlet that covered the issue did it in a slightly different way, and in many cases with some bias. This bias can be caused by a variety of factors, such as the outlet’s target audience, who sponsors the outlet, and even the author’s socioeconomic background. The Washington Post is one of the most well respected news sources in world on both the Internet…

Can Banning Guns Brighten our Future? Twelve Thousand. This is how many people die due to firearms every year in the U.S alone. Two Hundred. This is how many people injured by guns in the last five years. 19,827,376. This is how many guns sold to civilians in the past year. Gun control is one of the most controversial issues in the U.S We hear many stories over the news about mass shootings in schools, churches, banks, etc. Most people tend to disagree on restricting guns because it gets in…

A Consensus Among Millennials on Gun Violence The Millennial Generation has influenced the world through the things they have done in life, and continue to surprise older generations with their ideas, and with what they believe is beneficial for Washington. Millennials have witnessed mass shootings, have experience deadly events, all because of guns. Guns have always been part of the Millennial Generation, and by this, they favor the Second Amendment because they are convinced this generation…