Essays on Gun Violence In America

The constitution of America has various amendments that provide many kinds of leverage to its people, like right to vote, right to speech etc. Among them, one of the most controversial amendment is Second Amendment which gives people right to bear weapons like gun, for their safety. Safety is one of the basic needs of people and they should be provided to the people. However, the word ‘safety’ is a critical term here; is it really safe to have people…...

The ad that I have chosen for this assignment represents two kids standing in a classroom environment, both kids have one thing in common, they’re both holding an object in their hands. One of the kids is holding a surprise egg, whereas the other kid is holding a gun. I have seen this ad in one of my social media accounts. The advertisement is very compelling and regards to one of the main issues that people in United States face…...

Introduction In America, guns have been a part of the country for more years than can be counted. Throughout history, citizens of the US have used guns to protect their country, their families, and to hunt for food and engage in shooting activities excelling their skills. The gun control issue dates back as one of the most controversial issues and has become more prominent through the years with increased mass shootings across the US. With this in towe, anti-gun violence…...

Gun violence has remained a leading cause of death amongst adolescents aged 12-24 in the United States for the past two decades (Child Trends, 2014), and is most prevalent in inner-cities with high levels of gang activity (Stretesky & Pogrebin, 2007). Gang-related gun violence is responsible for the death of an average of over 2,000 youth living in the U.S. each year (NYGS, 2007). Additionally, various sub-groups of adolescents are disproportionately affected by gun violence, with race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status,…...

A school shooting is an attack at an educational institution, such as a school or university, involving the use of firearms. The first recorded school shooting in the United States took place in 1840, when a law student shot and killed his professor at the University of Virginia. Despite that crime rates in the United States are declining, and homicide specifically is especially rare, many people believe that school shootings are becoming epidemic, occurring more frequently than the have in…...

Gun violence has become an uninviting reality for the United States, the gun violence crisis is not uniform rather the rates of gun violence are widely diverse from state to state as does the character of the violence involving weapons. Gun violence takes a big toll on America entirely, claiming thousands of lives yearly. No other country has close to half of the number of gun deaths as America, making the United States insuperable to the numbers of firearms flowing…...

Turning on the radio or television to hear the news is becoming a dangerous thing in the United States of America. While there is no risk of immediate physical trauma, there is the advanced risk of heartache, usually accompanied by a sense of disbelief. “Could this really have happened again? How has this not been stopped?” These questions are two among many that are present in the minds of many when they hear, time after time, about the instances of…...

Gun control has become one of the most controversial topics in America, primarily after the many shootings that have occurred in the last twenty years. The question is, will more gun control be the answer to our problems? Will banning certain types of firearms, such as assault style weapons, really solve America’s gun violence problems? I think there are many other solutions to gun violence or mass shootings than implementing gun control laws. The Washington Post writes “The district's best…...

In the last few years, there has been a tremendous amount of school shootings around the world. Like Sandy Hook Elementary were Adam Lanza fatally shot and killed 20 students and 6 staff members. Since then the students, teachers and concerned citizens have be wondering as to what needs to be done to end mass shootings in America. The question is, will arming teachers with concealed weapons be the right answer to solving this issue. In this paper I will…...

“The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which no account be neglected”(Sun Tzu)”. The earliest known United States shooting to happen on school property was the Pontiac’s Rebellion school massacre on July 26, 1764, where four Lenape American Indian entered the schoolhouse near present-day Greencastle, Pennsylvania, shot and killed school master Enoch Brown,…...