Ingraham, Christopher. “Analysis | Trump Promised to End the ‘American Carnage.’ Gun Deaths Are up 12 Percent.” The Washington Post, WP Company, 27 July 2017, www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/07/27/trump-promised-to-end-the-american-carnage-gun-deaths-are-up-12-percent/. Accessed 27 July 2017.
The United states has been at the head of the gun violence for a long time because weapons are so prevalent in our culture. The united states has been one of the countries with the most weapon violence out of the first world countries.There has been concern as to the solution to our countries problem and our problems are just becoming more and more severe. The rise in gun violence in america is not new it happens year after year the rate rises more and more families are torn apart by death. Since 2014 firearm injuries are up fifty percent while child shootings are up thirty percent.Gun deaths in the first two hundred days of the year have been raising steadily from year to year. In 2016 there were 7,608 deaths in 2017 there were 8,539 a huge jump in lives taken by firearms in such a short amount of time.In the past months it has been the highest in has been in years for all areas of weapon violence. Injuries of children general firearm injuries and defensive gun use have all risen steadily and at alarming rates.
The government has commented on the severity of the issue from the president to the department of justice stating that it is a priority for the government to face and a concern being dealt with. The department of justice has created a specific task force to help deal with the situation trying to find a way to solve our problems with gun violence.While they haven't come up with concrete solutions that everyone has agreed upon most people have their own ideas on how to solve the gun violence dilemma. Some believe a more strict and longer minimum sentence for crimes with deadly weapon use while other groups believe there should be more regulation and less weapon distribution. While most of these are violent crimes some are accidental or suicidal and others believe that safety could be a major factor and believe in more safety and training courses required for gun ownership.There is no right answer and we need to find our own ways to solve the problems that we have been faced with it may be a combination of all the ideas given that would secure a safer america but only time and legislation will tell.
First of all, I do agree that gun violence is a prominent issue in our country. Also, it was a bit shocking to read all of those statistics about deaths, I didn't know there were that many fatalities this year from that. Weapon policies and stipulations need to be better put in place to prevent this from happening. I did also agree that we need to kind of take care of this ourselves. There were a good bit of grammar issues that you could maybe keep an eye on for the next post however. Also, you could maybe have included your own idea to help the issue. However, interesting article, well done.
ReplyDeleteI agree, gun violence has been getting worse and worse every year, but I think that there cant be median restriction. I think it should be one of the two extremes, either everyone has to have one and have a "MAD" type of concept or tighten up on screening the buyer. The only problem with increasing screening is that, if someone really wanted a gun they'd buy it of the black market.
ReplyDeleteI also agree that the rate of gun violence has been rising over the years. I honestly am not sure of my opinion on gun control but seeing the amount of deaths of adults and children and other gun related incidents, it isn't to good of a control.
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