For several decades, there have been many cases where small arms and light weapons have been used to kill and injure people on an enormous scale. In the United States, according to the Gun Violence Archive, firearms killed around 13,286 people and 26,819 people were injured in 2015, 1 as recently reported by the BBC in January 2016. However, this does not limit such issues only to the larger nations, but also to smaller nations in South East Asia, such as Sri Lanka. Over the past few years, Sri Lanka has seen a rise in the use of small arms and light weapons, which is a concern for the security and safety of civilians, further development from the stage of less economically developed country (LEDC) and is an impediment for a brighter and safer …show more content…
There has been a great transformation in the use of weapons. Historically speaking, Sri Lanka was very peaceful. A turn of events that began the use of small arms use in Sri Lanka was the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) insurgency of 1971. 7 During this incident, Sinhalese youths gained access to small arms by raiding police stations and ended up in State taking action by the killing many of the youth insurgents. Later on, the rise in Tamil militant groups along with the Tamil-Muslim minor clashes that took place in the early 1990’s caused tension among the Sri Lankan state and it had to strengthen it’s armed forces. 8 Now, post civil war, there is slight rigidity within the state and the civilians, that many people carry small arms simply for their protection. According to Vidya Abhayagunawardena, a freelance researcher and author of the article “The Need to Apprehend Illicit Small Arms,” which he wrote for the DailyMirror newspaper in 2015, “women and children are the most vulnerable groups with regard to the use of illicit small arms in Sri Lanka.” 9 The ethnic war produced many war widows, children without parents and other family members, having most of them being killed by small arms. The numbers still continue to escalate post war at an alarming rate.
School shootings, gang violence, drive by shootings, murder, and thousands of acts of violence are committed every day. Members of our society criticize their own people for this violence while they continue to sit back and do nothing about it. These acts of violence have many contributing factors. Violence in our country today is escalating because we don't control the distribution of the guns sold. There are not enough restrictions on guns sold legally. The illegal purchase of guns through the black market is out of control. There is not enough education on the usage and storage of guns.
In the number one national bestseller “A Long Way Gone” by Ishmael Beah, the abuse of guns become extreme. Guns imply control, fear, and power to a point where rebels will taunt the people in order to succeed these tasks. Overthrowing villages, killing innocent residence, and inflicting fear appear in many parts of the biography. While Ishmael was present in a village, “the rebels began shooting their guns at people instead of shooting into the sky. They didn’t want people to abandon the town…” (24). This shows how guns is equivalent to control as the rebels are able to force the inhabitants from fleeing the village. Another example include that “The rebel pushed the old man to the ground, put a gun to his head, and ordered him to get up.”
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Gun violence has been and continues to be one of the major problems in American. The U.S. has the highest rate of gun ownership in the world and consequently the highest rate of gun violence and fatalities compared to other developed countries. In a study by the University of Sydney it is estimated that there are 270,000,000 to 310,000,000 guns in the United States. According to the same study in 2010 there were 31,672 fatalities caused by firearms and on the following year the number went up to 32,163. Homicides resulting from guns are high in the United States and they are claiming more than eleven thousand lives every year (Guns in the United States: Firearms, Armed Violence and Gun Law). According to Vision for Humanity, an initiative for the Economics and Peace, the United States is ranked 99 out of 162 countries in the 2013 global peace index, homicide rates and violent crimes are among the various criteria used to determine the ranking (Vision of Humanity). Mass shootings at work places, schools, shopping malls and places of worship are happening in an a...
The current version of the Weapons Act 1990 (Qld) (the Act) aims to summarise and detail the laws regarding carrying, possessing and selling weapons. The purpose of the act is to prevent misuse of the weapons and related purposes. The legislation intends to enforce safe weapon use and emphasis that possession of weapons is a danger to individual safety. In addition to this, the legislation aims to place strict controls on the storage of weapons to ensure greater safety. As this legislation has been in fruition for a long period of time the legislation has had numerous amendments as new knowledge and views begin to surface regarding weapons and their use(ref).
Through the year’s shootings have increased by a significant amount. Individuals are becoming affected on a regular basis and are concerned about there safety. Parents are worried for there youth getting assaulted, sexually violence, tormented, kidnaped, murdered on the other hand, now there ending up to be more stressed for there child getting shot. Guns have been around for hundredths of years, both world wars were succeeded with guns, hence, guns were served to defend its nation through history. In Western society citizens purchase guns for self preservation.
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Guns and violence have some long lasting effects on not only the crime rate, but the rights that people have to own guns themselves. Even though the violence is a factor in why many believe that guns should be banned, guns should be allowed and not banned because they should be allowed because of the laws and the rights of citizens allow them there rights. The ethics and laws that occur with the current and enduring debates are another meaningful point. As Supreme Court Cases rage on about how a cities ban on handguns could break amendments, this is how the topic has gained from it (Hoxie 474). As crime statistics begin to rise there are many reasons that they need to work on the juvenile justice system (Collier 478). The other topic of the age could become a factor is another point that many think needs to be changed, as a 13 year old child could commit murder, they would not be sentenced as severely as an adult (Cohen 481). The ethic and laws play a huge effect on guns and violence because of the effects it has on crime, and the citizens themselves play a huge role on the society that they live in.
Through two decades ago and in recent years gun violence has increased significantly in the various parts of the United States. There are more cases of children and young adults, engaging in violence. Gun violence leads to the death of many civilians annually. Gun violence touches every segment of our society. It increases the probability of deaths in incidents of domestic violence, raises the likelihood of fatalities by those who intend to injure others and among those who attempt to commit crimes. put children and young people at special risk, and disproportionately affect communities of color. Gun violence harmed all the society and it was a nightmare which produced a culture soaked in blood.
Violence marks much of human history. Within the sociopolitical sphere, violence has continually served as a tool used by various actors to influence and/or to control territory, people, institutions and other resources of society. The twentieth century witnessed an evolution of political violence in form and in scope. Continuing into the twenty-first, advances in technology and social organization dramatically increase the potential destructiveness of violent tools. Western colonialism left a world filled with many heterogeneous nation-states. In virtually all these countries nationalist ideologies have combined with ethnic, religious, and/or class conflicts resulting in secessionist movements or other kinds of demands. Such conflicts present opportunities for various actors in struggles for wealth, power, and prestige on both national and local levels. This is particularly evident in Indonesia, a region of the world that has experienced many forms of political violence. The state mass killings of 1965-66 mark the most dramatic of such events within this region. My goal is to understand the killings within a framework of collec...
A whopping 67.8 percent of the total crimes in the world were gun related. In the United States alone, 60 percent of all reported cases of homicides involved guns. This can be one reason that leads many to believe that guns are responsible for the prevalence of criminality across different countries. After all, the United States is the highest in gun ownership, with 88.8 percent per 100,000 people owning guns. Guns are weapons that encompass a high level of danger in the hands of those who have a criminal mind. Many countries have implemented policies on gun control while at the same time urge others to do the same to fight crimes.
Gun Violence is one of the United States most serious crime problems. The total cost of gun violence in the United States, including medical, criminal justice, and other government and private costs, are at least 6 to 12 billion a year (Cook, P. J. & Ludwig, J., 2000). The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ (ATF) mission is to track firearms. It reported that firearms sells have risen since 2005. According to the A...
According to a Small Arms Survey poll, there are 88 guns for every 100 people in the United States, an alarming figure for a first...