Joey runs into the bathroom, sweat pouring down his face. He slips into the nearest stall, looking over his shoulder. As Joey closes the stall door, he notices that his hand is violently shaking. He presses his head into his hands. He looks back up, slowly moves his shaking hand into his pocket, and pulls out his father’s pistol. He thinks, deciding whether or not he wants to do what he’s wanting to do for all his school years. Joey then hears the voices in his head, taunting him, “You’re just a weak farmboy! Toughen up!” Joey stands up, his whole body shaking now. He sprints out of the stall, into the bustling hallway, and begins to shoot. Is it right that a schoolboy, like Joey was able to get hold of a gun this easily? Is it fair that Joey’s fellow students had their very lives placed in a schoolboy’s hands? How is it that something that can kill countless …show more content…
Thousands of deaths a year is not something that should be overlooked. There were 464,033 deaths caused by guns between 1999 and 2013. If guns were only allowed to be in the hands of police or military, that number would be much smaller. Of course, many people would still be able to illegally obtain firearms, but it would be much more difficult. One of these deaths was caused by Dorothy Dutiel, a fifteen-year-old, who shot another fifteen-year-old girl at Independence High School, in Arizona. This is a high school girl. If guns were completely illegal, it would have been much harder for her to get one. Yet another example of deaths by guns, twelve police officers were shot at in Dallas during a peaceful protest against “police shooters.” Five police officers were killed during this peaceful protest. Police officers that were not doing any harm, during a peaceful protest, were killed. This is what guns are being used for. From this, the conclusion can be formed that guns are the cause of thousands of deaths each year, which can be easily
A. According to the Brady Foundation, one of the leading campaigns to end gun violence. 36% of the nation, 18 of 50 states, impose a waiting period.. (prevent crimes of passion, no background check, not able to check if buyer is prohibited or not to purchase.)
A man carrying two revolvers and two 9mm semi-automatic handguns calmly strode into the Dunblane Primary School. Two people quickly spotted the firearms and tried to tackle the man; he shot them and left them wounded as he continued his journey down the hall of the school. Finally, the man reached his destination: the gym, where a class a kindergartners were having P.E. In the gym, he pulled out the guns and started picking off the five-year-olds one by one. The room was splattered with blood as young children broke like porcelain dolls under the power of the gun. The blood continued to flow, but the intruder did not stop; he took careful aim to make sure he didn't miss. The final insult came when he shot the teacher who was shielding kids with her body. Once he killed her, he killed the kids she was protecting. When he finished in the gym , he turned around walked out, shot at a class as he walked down the hall and walked out into the courtyard. In the courtyard, the killer ended the ordeal by taking his own life (Pederson).
The second amendment grants all Americans the right to bear arms. The ability to hold a firearm at any time as long as the firearm is registered. In the United states, all it takes to hold a firearm is a background check and a safety class. In a short reading from the “American Now” book a short article By Christina Tenuta called Responsible gun ownership saves lives she asks “do Americans really need guns?”, but are the guns really the problem? Although the second amendment requires some decent documents , the qualifications to obtain a firearm needs to be revised to a mental check, a family history check , and also to make it a priority for reinforcement to check on the registered firearm every six to twelve months.
Imagine... you are driving down the street to see your loving family. You stop at a gas station and a guy comes in. He has a bandana and bad intentions. All of a sudden, he loads a pistol and aims it towards you. What are your options? Try to visualize, a guy going to see his wife and kids, but when out of nowhere a person pulls you aside and then points a pistol at you. Over the course of years, ninety-three United States citizens are killed with guns. Due to these reasons, it seems it is necessary to get rid of guns because of the 21,175 suicides, 505 deaths due to accidental/ negligent discharge of a firearm. Guns should be banned for civilian use, due to too many deaths from unregistered users, misuse, and increased crime rate.
Specific Purpose Statement: To persuade my audience that each individual must take responsibility for his or her own actions. The must not blame guns for problems caused by people. .
Specific Purpose: To persuade the audience that any attempt by the government to control guns should not be supported
Eighty-nine people die from gun violence in the United States every day according to the Brady Campaign , from school children to victims of domestic violence to people going about their daily lives. As we mourn the lives of those killed in incidents of gun violence across the country, we need to take action. We should all do everything in our power to keep tragedies like this from happening again. When it comes to addressing mass shootings, we need new answers
Imagine, a person is sitting in their classroom in college. He or she is focused on listening to the teacher, because he or she needs to pass the final exam in order to graduate. All of a sudden, an intruder charges through the door. The intruder pulls out a gun and starts blasting bullets throughout the classroom. There is nowhere to run and there is no way to fight back. Everyone is hit and on the floor, bleeding. This person is so close to graduating and starting a new life. Now his life has been cut short, because there was someone who illegally brought a gun to a school. Because the school had a symbol of “no guns allowed”. Because the intruder knew there was no one else could shoot back. Now imagine if that student, dying on the floor,
When we talk about death by gun violence most people think about mass shooting at a school and it is very easy to fall into one of two categories. Either all gun violence deaths are cause by the gun or by the gun owner. But to understand gun violence deaths it is important to understand what exactly gun violence is. Gun violence is a combination of different circumstances: from kids finding his or her father’s gun to spree killing to mass murder to domestic violence to gang violence. Solutions cannot be found as one big idea; there is no “one size fits all.” Gun regulations should stay the as they are currently because too many laws make it harder for people who use guns for protection to get guns, criminals will get guns easier if there are
There is one reaction that is always to be expected after a mass shooting, and that is the call for an increase in control. This can be defined in numerous different ways, and can include a great deal of different aspects. People who call for an increase gun control in the wake of mass shootings are, in general, people who believe that more guns means more crimes. Gun control advocates cite studies that state, “Higher gun prevalence is associated with an increase in homicides, and suicides, and possibly even more residential burglaries” (Ludwig 17). Often times, after mass shootings, those in favor of more gun control look to countries like Australia, Canada, Great Britain and Japan, and their strict gun policy and cite this as the direction
Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of the citizen to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be very carefully used and that definite rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of the citizen to bear arms is just one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible. -Hubert Humphrey, 1960 My background is probably atypical for a somewhat high-profile supporter of the right to keep and bear arms. I am black and grew up in Manhattan’s East Harlem, far removed from the great American gun culture of rural, white America.
Those who argue for gun control usually state guns are a part of most violent crimes. However, this is not always true. While it is true that limiting gun ownership with laws could prevent individuals from possessing guns, it does not prevent people from illegally having or using guns. Those who carry guns legally are not the problem. According to Mark Gius, the author of “Gun Ownership and the Gun Control Index”, “…only about 25% of total violent crime is committed by a person using a gun, no inferences...
If you’re a wise person, you would understand that guns kill. With no bans against guns, the murders and shootings that seem to be omnipresent in the US will not rest. According to a statistical analysis recorded by the American Gun Violence Archive, there are approximately 10,000 people killed by guns each year on average. This absolutely staggering figure purely displays the necessity for the banning of guns in the
In my opinion, if guns are the leading cause of deaths or problems in America, then why should they have laws permitting the right to have them? The Americans believe that if they have more guns, all their problems will disappear. They believe that if they have a gun, they can stop anyone who tries to harm them. When expressed as such this may seem logical; that by having a weapon one can stop other people who have a weapon from hurting them. They do not have to wait for the police to defend themselves because they already have the materials to do so. However, this is somewhat illogical because no one will attack another person unless provoked; so unless they are a criminal, guns are unnecessary. Americans try to justify it by blaming the second
The problem with guns is fairly obvious: they decrease the difficulty of killing or injuring a person. In Jeffrey A. Roth's Firearms and Violence (NIJ Research in Brief, February 1994), he points out the obvious dangers. About 60 percent of all murder victims in the United States in 1989 (about 12,000 people) were killed with firearms. Firearm attacks injured another 70,000 victims, some of whom were left permanently disabled. In 1985, the cost of shootings was an estimated $14 billion nationwide for medical care, long-term disability, and premature death. In robberies and assaults, victims are far more likely to die when the perpetrator is armed with a gun than when he or she has another weapon or is unarmed.