Persuasive Essay On Mass Shootings

America is not a stranger when it comes to tragedies such as school shootings, starting in 1999 with the notorious Columbine massacre, when one morning Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold decided to pull the trigger and leave 13 dead and many others wounded. Since the Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting in Newtown, Connecticut in 2012, a reported 142 shootings have happened in the U.S. alone. Because of the Sandy Hook shooting, 20 little angels couldn’t be tucked in by their parents ever again. From this arose the question, how can we protect out kids? There are many opinions about how we should protect the lives of our children, and almost every 2016 Presidential candidate has voiced their plan of action on how to do so. While some believe we

Since the beginning of 2018 how many school shootings happened? Claimed by David Emery in his article on snopes website, Since January 1st, 2018 until now eighteen school shooting have had happened making the average of school shooting be three pre-week (Emery). When seventeen people get killed and more than fifteen get injured on a school grounds, I think this is the right time to reevaluate the gun control laws that the country have. The problem is that the government does not have very strict gun control laws and does not enforce the law of correlcety.

The United States has 88.8 guns per 100 people or about 270,000,000 guns, which is the highest total and per capita number in the world. This has resulted in a direct correlation between the number of guns owned and a number of deaths/mass shootings. When reviewing massacres, it is clear that America is an anomaly, this is because there has been more homicides and mass shootings in America than what there has been anywhere else in the world. There are two major problems with the US, and that is the Black Market and ease of accessibility someone has to purchase formidable weapons. Almost every state in the country does not require a permit to purchase or obtain a rifle, nor do you need a license or have the rifle registered. So, if we were to now make laws stricter and ban certain people from having guns, the mere possibility of ceasing all rifles that are already in the hands of Americans would be near impossible. It is clear that Terrorists and criminals are not deterred by laws or the government’s rulings, this does not mean they don’t pay attention to the laws, they just find other alternatives to carry out their motives. For example, terrorists stopped using bombs as laws were put in place which made it easier for the government to track purchases, however that didn’t stop them. It just meant they found another alternative, guns.

Of the many problems we face in gun control it is availability of guns to the very people that don’t need them. The Sandy Hook shooting, occurring on December 14, 2012, sparked a nation wide push for stricter gun control. The shooter, a mentally ill male, shot down 26 people with a semi-automatic AR-15-- a military type assault rifle. Many Americans were left wondering how a mentally ill person would be capable of acquiring such guns. The truth is that it is not very difficult for someone to acquire such weaponry. On January 14, 2013 Brian Walsh wrote in a Time article that there was nearly one gun for every person in the U.S. We own almost, if not, half of the world 's civilian guns. Furthermore our laws and regulations are generally slack compared to other developed countries. In Canada, not only do gun owners receive a background check, they must undergo a safety gun course and have a federal registration certificate for that weapon. Japan 's laws are among the strictest: essentially banning all weapons except those used in competitions and requiring

Throughout the past few years, disturbing amounts of mass shooting have occurred in the United States. This is paired with the fact that gun ownership in the United States stays significantly higher per capita as compared to any other developed nation. Lastly, statistics from these tragedies evidenced that most of the weapons used are legally obtained, high volume weapons. It remains clear that as a country we cannot stay at the top in gun-ownership, and consequently have mass shootings decrease. We must examine ways that regulating gun ownership can prevent tragedies.

Kelto writes that, when the amount of US gun deaths is compared to those found in countries in the six regions of the world, “in five out of [the] six regions, it would be right near the top in terms of gun deaths per 100,000 people (Kelto, 2015). It should be noted that most, if not all of these countries with low gun related homicides, have strict gun control measures. For example, as Jonathan Masters of cfr.org details, Australia instituted “the National Agreement on Firearms [that] all but prohibited automatic and semiautomatic assault rifles, stiffened licensing and ownership rules, and instituted a temporary gun buyback program that took some 650,000 assault weapons (about one-sixth of the national stock) out of public circulation” (Masters, 2015). Masters also provides an overview of Japan’s strict gun control regime. Japan’s gun control framework places heavy restrictions on what firearms are legally permissible, allowing only “shotguns, air guns, guns that have research or industrial purposes, or those used for competitions” (Masters, 2015). In order for a citizen to gain full access to these weapons, they “must obtain formal instruction and pass a battery of written, mental, and drug tests and a rigorous background check” and also, after completing the aforementioned measures, “inform the authorities of how the weapon and ammunition is stored and provide the firearm for annual inspection” (Masters, 2015). In the US, either at the state or federal level, there should be a conversation about gun control measures similar to the ones found in these countries and others, for the sake of decreasing gun related

“The United States has 88.8 guns per 100 people, or about 270,000,000 guns, which is the highest total and per capita number in the world," (Gun Control - ProCon.org). Since there are numerous people in the country who have guns, people need to learn about these weapons to decrease shootings and other tragedies. Creating gun laws that are more strict would not solve the problems, but create more crime. The gun control laws should be less restrictive because guns can protect innocent civilians from people who are mentally unstable, restrictive laws can create problems for hunters, and the gun laws give more power to the government than the people.

The battle over gun control has been the topic of debate for many decades and continues to remain a political and social issue. In the United States, the term gun control “refers to any action taken by the federal government or by state or local governments to regulate, through legislation, the sale, purchase, safety, and use of handguns and other types of firearms by individual citizens.” (Lee). The questions of how much gun control is appropriate, the nature of background checks, mental health, purchase accessibility, among others, have been opposing in viewpoints over the years. More recently, mass shootings such as the Columbine High School massacre, the shootings at Virginia Tech, the Charleston church shooting by Dylann Roof, and the Bryce Williams/Vester Flanagan anchor shootings have considerably fueled the gun control debate even further.

Nowadays we see in our schools. The shooting case are increasing. Many people lost their children during gunshot.For a parents their children are more important to them. Some people don’t want to send their children to school after the gun shooting. They don’t want to loose their kids. But then it effects on their study and their carrier. Who’s parent said that the study is more important than life. They know the life is more important. On February 14,2018 a shooting took place at Marjory stoneman Douglas High school in Florida. Many children were killed in the Attack. I think teacher should have gun at school. So, our teacher can help students. Many student’s life will safe with arming teachers the students will feel more safe, because they know that if gun shooter came in their school, then their teacher can save them. But teacher should attend firearms training. They should know how to use a gun with right way. Also they should know using improvised weapons to delay a shooter. Also it’s not good to just sit there and let shooter kill the student. We need to shop this.

A history of gun laws shows how we can improve on gun control. Gun laws have changed dramatically over the years because of shootings and using guns in a violent way. However, at a national level, policy has remained unchanged for the past twenty years. After all of the mass shootings over the

In Australia, approximately 3,050,000 citizens own a gun. In Canada, approximately 9,950,000 citizens own a gun. In Japan, approximately 710,000 citizens own a gun. Most countries have 10,000,000 gun owners or less – which sounds like a lot. But not compared to the United States. In the United States, approximately 270,000,000 citizens own a gun (Rogers 1). The US is ranked first in the world by rate of gun ownership and has on average, about 20 times the gun murder rate than all other countries. Do these numbers mean nothing? When is America going to realize that guns cause more damage than they do good? Gun violence is a big problem in the US, but that can change due to gun control. Gun control is the regulation of

Guns, for better or for worse, are a central part of many societies culture. Created in the 13th century, they have been around for an extremely long period of time. (Wikipedia). They revolutionized many aspects of life including hunting and how wars are fought. With the immense power guns offer, comes an immense danger and responsibility. It is up to each country to regulate the possession and usage of such dangerous and volatile objects. When in the wrong hands, they pose a threat to societies and people’s lives and well being. Mass shootings are possible and happen regularly and violence is facilitated with the presence of guns. Gun regulation is key and far from uniform in every country. Japan and Australia have some of the most stringent gun laws known to mankind, while America continues to have very relaxed and nearly nonexistent gun regulations in comparison. Why is it that some countries have cracked down on guns while others have failed to do so? Whether it is based on culture like japan, or a terrible disaster like port Arthur in Australia, these two countries are far ahead of America as far as gun control goes. America is a curious case because although there are mass shootings and extreme amounts of gun violence, they continue to facilitate gun ownership. “To many Japanese, and to many Americans, it is simply incomprehensible that the united states have not implemented strict gun control” (Japanese gun control). The united states has on average 88.8 firearms per

The audience of the Route 91 Harvest Festival concert thought they were hearing fireworks. When screams filled the air and bodies dropped to the ground, they realized that they were being attacked. Twenty-two thousand people were filled with terror as they desperately attempted to flee the scene. Gunman Stephen Paddock fired down on the helpless crowd for over ten minutes.

The United States has the highest rank in mass shooting in Gun Control. In our country, we do not have many laws on Gun Control. As in the US Constitution there is not an unlimited amount to however many guns you may own. And as being a US citizen, the law cannot take your gun without a reason because we all have the right to bear arms as it states in the US Constitution as the Second Amendment in our Bill of Right. With that being said in my own point of view I strongly believe we should enforce gun control, because not all should be punished for the ones who take their rights for granted.

On October 1st 2017, a gunman opened fire on a crowd of country music concertgoers in Las Vegas, resulting in fifty eight people dead and four hundred and eighty nine people injured. Around ten o'clock sixty-four year old Stephen Paddock fired hundreds of rounds of ammunition from his hotel room on the thirty second floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel. Roughly an hour after he had shot his last round from his hotel room, he was found dead from a self inflicted gunshot wound. The couple days following the shooting, many elected officials and media outlets were extremely cautious about how they described the man responsible for one of the largest mass shootings in modern American history. A man who does not fit the “mass shooter profile”. No expensive Mexican border wall could have prevented this. No Muslim ban that stops immigrants in randomly chosen countries from reaching the United States could have reduced the likelihood of this happening. Paddock, like a majority of the mass shooters in the United States, was a white American man and this very simple detail changes how the whole entire horrific situation is discussed by the media and the national discourse.