Gun Culture in the United States

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Gun culture is attitudes, feelings, values, and behavior that belong to a group that uses guns. The United States of American has a huge gun culture. In the last few years more and more gun related violence has shown up in the news. “There have been 12 (mass shootings) in the United States since 1949, and half of them have taken place in the last six years” says Rachel Maddow, political commentator. I believe that is a sign to take charge and change our gun culture.

One of the first steps to changing our gun culture is to take gun violence out of the media. Kids are exposed to violence in television, video games and movies everyday. Dr Norman B Anderson of the American Psychological Association says there was a link between Adam Lanza’s (the gunman of the Sandy Hook shooting) violent video game obsession and his killing spree that cost far too many innocent lives. A study done at Brock University showed children and teens who played violent video games over a long period of time showed increased development of aggressive behaviors. This goes without saying that there must be a decrease of violence in the media. The kids watching violence on television are the future of society. They cannot all be aggressive, violent people who believe that shooting civilians is okay or stealing cars is something to take lightly. We must change this by

The U.S. has more guns and more gun related deaths than any other country in the world. In our country we have 88 guns per 100 people and 10 gun related deaths per 100,000 people shows a study by two New York City cardiologist. The same study shows, there are more guns than any other of the top 27 most developed countries. Japan only has .6 guns for every 100 people. David Hemenway, of Harvard ...

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