Argumentative Essay On School Shootings

Highland High School, Forest High School, Great Mills High school are just the names of the few school shooting happened this year. There are a total of 21 school shootings in the past five months. Which is about one shooting per week. Impacting families and friends and the safety of other students every week. In attempt to solve this on going issue, thought and prayers are what people doing. Which obviously did not solve anything. Although, students have started taking action by protesting and walking out to share awareness and to make a change. Mental Health is also a big factor in gun violence. Based on an article, Mental Illness, Mass Shootings and the Politics of American Firearms from AJPH, “Four assumptions frequently arise in the aftermath of mass shootings in the United States: (1) that mental illness causes gun violence, (2) that psychiatric diagnosis can predict gun crime, (3) that shootings represent the deranged acts of mentally ill loners, and (4) that gun control “won’t prevent” another Newtown (Connecticut school mass shooting).” Buying a gun is as easy as buying a car. If

It is the right that every individual has to a fair opportunity to live a long and healthy life.” They also stated that, “ Americans at large are affected by shootings, whether it is mass shootings or an individual being shot. No other country has the gun violence statistics that the United States has acquired in these last years.” Same as the other article, they included mental health as one of the factors. Although, even if people are mentally ill, having stricter gun controls could have avoided the whole situation. Some might say, “we need better treatments for mentally ill people,” or “The shooting was not their fault, they were mentally ill.” The point is that if a mentally ill person did not have a gun but perhaps a knife, the chances of him hurting someone else