Gun violence in the United States

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    According to "Gun Violence Archive 2015 Toll of Gun Violence” there has been a total of 48,677 incidents involving a firearm in America this year (2015). The number of deaths this year from gun violence is 12,323, while the number of injuries (24,890) is almost double the number of deaths (Gun Violence Archive 2015). The number of children (ages 0-11 years old) killed or injured due to gun violence is 645, while the number of teenagers (ages 12-17 years old) killed or injured is 2,440 (Gun Violence Archive

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    Gun Violence in America According to CDC, "One person is killed by a firearms every 17 minutes, 87 people are killed during an average day, and 609 are killed every week”(CDC). That means gun violence is out of control, and you can be next. In fact, there 's been an increase of mass murders occurring everywhere due to guns. Which has brought our attention to the gun violence in our nation. They say guns are for protection, but in reality there seems to be more murder associated with it. There 's

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    Don’t Know About Guns,” by Ted Alcorn discusses the common denominator in most gun related accidents. Last year at least 278 children accidently fired a gun and injured or killed someone. We found that the main problem for this is irresponsible gun storage. According to surveys about 15% of gun owning households with children store their guns unlocked and loaded. It is tracked that about two-thirds of all the unintentional child shootings came from the those households. Alcorn states that nearly two-thirds

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    The Issue Of Gun Control

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    Interestingly pro-gun groups identify the reason for increased gun crimes as tightening laws and putting more restrictions on guns. According to Wooster College and a research that they conducted, many individuals who are pro guns believe “Gun control doesn’t protect people from violent crime, it increases it. Every region where gun control is high, there is a higher instance of gun violence and crime in general. In regions where there are less restrictive gun laws, you’ll see lower instances of

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    some people carry gun instead of leanings how to fight. In united stairs carry gun is legal, because It legals, there are shooting in many place such as school, concert, or movie theater. That is why there are some augment about gun control. People thought that gun should be carried around like bottle of water. However I believe that carry gun is a big source of self defense, it protects people from rape and rob. Many women are big rist of rape and violence. Women should carry gun to protect themselves

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    Not pull a gun as if you are a law enforcer. It doesn’t make the you any better than the criminal if you pull a gun and resort to violence before you take any other initiative to end the violence. Understand that it’s not always about why the gun was pulled, but how it was used after it was pulled. Having a gun strapped to their side makes it easier to access, but that is a problem because if they are angered, who is to say that the gun won’t be the first thing they resort to. Gun owners are not

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    America is a country where guns are becoming more of a common household item, more people have been buying guns to protect their families. While guns are becoming more popular in homes, gun violence and crime is becoming more common as well. As more people are dying everyday from gun violence and crime, the government and the people of the country are beginning to take the incidents into account and are beginning to build up more laws around gun control. But with these laws many people have begun

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    Name: Institution: Course: Date: Gun Control in the USA Gun ownership is a general topic that has remained the greatest challenge to the US security agencies. This is because the American Bill of Rights gives all citizens enough rights of owning guns individually (Baldrige 112). In the American tradition, this right has a long history. It dates back to the time when colonists settled in North America. Since then, each person in the US was allowed to own a private gun for self defense (Bellesiles 67)

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    Gun control is a growing issue as of late, due to recent events such as school shootings as well as crimes which are committed daily due to gun violence the issue has been more controversial than ever before. IT is true that by owing a gun you can feel a sense of self- empowerment as it can allow you to protect yourself as well as your loved ones. However, owing a gun is a double edge sword in today’s world. The reason is that with the sudden increase in gun violence more people have beganbegun to

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    As Americans, we have seen lots of violence with guns that has affected so many people due to people’s actions with guns. People who caused violence with guns will create problems with trusting people because you do not know who they are and what their intentions are. Gun violence against people carries great consequences because the actions of those people who choose to cause harm to others do not clearly think of the long-term damage guns cause. Gun control is also defined as a security issue,

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