Gun Violence

Prevalence of Gun Violence

What is Gun Violence?

Gun Violence is a major problem that the

United States. It has to deal with all ages

young or old. Gun Violence may or may not

be considered criminal. “Criminal violence

includes homicide (except when and where

ruled justifiable), assault with a deadly

weapon, and suicide, or attempted suicide,

depending on jurisdiction”.

Gun Violence has been a major cause of premature death that has “killed over more

than 38,000 people and cause nearly 85,000 injuries each year. As a longtime advocate

for violence prevention policies”. We have to take precautions so that we do not have

guns fall into the wrong people hands and make sure that we get medical attention to

ones who needs it. On average, about 100 American were killed by the act of guns and

even more are shot and injured. And this has an impact on people not only the victims but the

ones around the victim that seen it all go down right in front of their eyes. Most of the gun deaths

in the US are 2/3 of gun deaths are suicides.  

What are some type of shootings are there?

The one type of shooting gun violence has caused is called an “mass murder” which is when four or more people are involved in a murder. “The gun control act of 1968 focuses on commerce. It prohibits mail-order sales of weapons, and requires anyone in the business of selling guns to be federally licensed and keep permanent sales records”. This is a major law that we should take very seriously because this helps people that have a less chance to do anything bad around people with any type of gun or try to harm anyone in any way that could possibly happen.

How would you try to find out who killed your loved one?

A set of three guns.

What would one might due in order to find out what has happened to people that have died, been injured, or anything bad that could have happened. Back “In the 1990’s we had city shootings that generated concern about the stress of “urban war zones,” followed by rural school shootings attributed to the pressures on boys raised in small towns”(Cornell).

Citations
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“Gun Violence.” AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION,
www.apha.org/topics-and-issues/gun-violence.

“Gun Violence.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 22 Nov. 2018,
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence.

Stray, Jonathan. “Gun Violence in America: The 13 Key Questions

(With 13 Concise Answers).” The Atlantic, Atlantic Media Company, 5 Feb. 2013,