Gun violence in the United States

Professor Gregory Cass July 19, 2017 Guns Need To Be Limited As an American citizen, owning a gun is a very common thing, but the gun violence also happened in America every day. Living in Boston, most people believe that having a gun can protect their life. In fact, the opposite is true. American created many strict policies and laws to limited the guns violence, but the amount of guns issues is still increasing. Although most American citizens have personal guns now, they haven’t get the…

Gun Control in the United States Daniel Kussow DeLaSalle High School Gun Control in the United States Crime and guns seem to always be paired together with one another. But are the two really that closely associated with each other? Does owning firearms really lead to crime? And if it does, do laws that put restrictions on the ownership of guns reduce gun-related crimes? These are the questions that many of our representatives in Congress are asking themselves when they go about voting…

Across North America, the use of guns and firearms were very controversial and still are till this day. Many Canadian politicians and citizens have looked down on the United States their gun control laws. On December 6th, 1989, an eye-opening tragedy for occurred. Twenty-five year old Marc Lepine walked into the University of Montreal’s Ecole Polytechnique, murdered 13 female engineering students, a woman staff member and killed himself. The massacre left the victims’ family in devastation and…

That’s the average number of lives lost to gun violence every day in the United States of America, yet it seems like no one even blinks. Gun violence, in general, is a problem that has been on the rise in the United States for several years, and it is now catching up to automobiles in terms of annual deaths. An issue that seems to catch the attention of many people is the increasing frequency of mass shootings rather than the overall impact of gun violence on our nation. In 2015, there have been…

Guns and Lives Introduction Gun control is one of the biggest debatable and emotional issues in the United States. Gun violence is a serious problem in multiple cites of the United States. There are citizens that believe there need to be gun control laws and citizens that believe there should not be gun control laws. Is America the most violent when it comes to controlling guns? The whole purpose of the gun control law is to constrain or control the sale, purchase, transfer, or possession of…

Introduction Gun control has been a topic of debate in our country since before the creation of the Declaration of Independence. So much so, the individual liberty of the right to bear arms was implemented into the Bill of Rights as the second amendment. The implementation of this individual liberty wasn’t to suggest that any citizen of the United States can own or obtain a gun and therefore later federal and state laws were implemented to regulate ownership. Even so, there are an…

us, some great and some bad. Guns continue to be widely available for anyone to purchase in America. The United States possess the poorest gun laws of any nation in the world. Ironically, it’s easier for someone to purchase a gun in America, than it is to be financed for a new mortgage. A majority of gun buyers will not even have to submit to a…

an average day in the United States 93 americans are killed by gun violence. There are also 1000’s of cases that involve a child being injured or killed by a stray bullet every year. Does this mean that guns are dangerous or does it mean we are using guns for the wrong intention? There are many reasons people use guns but like everything else some people use it for good and some for evil. Since the United States can't take away all of our guns I feel there should be some guns you should be able…

Why Are Guns Negatively Looked Upon in the US? There are several controversial topics in modern USA society, such as illegal immigration, racial diversity, wage gap, lack or overuse of the democracy, and, of course, the problem of guns and gun control. The nation is divided into two groups with completely different view of this issue: half of the citizens believe that it should remain legal to own guns, and that it is a natural right of every US citizen. However, the other part of Americans…

Americans are killed by guns than during the entire fourteen years of the Vietnam War” according to Gregory Orfalea in “Self-Inflicted Carnage” (1). Gregory Orfalea, a credible American author, argues in his article “Self-Inflicted Carnage” that there is a desperate need for modern gun control measures in the United States due to the recent increase of gun violence. Robert A. Levy, chairman of the Cato Institute and co-counsel in District of Columbia v. Heller, on the other hand, states in “Our…