Persuasive Essay On Gun Violence

Guns have the potential to inflict serious injuries, and intensify violence. Gun violence is a constant issue the United States has dealt with for many years. Gun violence is preventable. It can be prevented through a public health approach that keeps communities and families safe. Violence is an epidemic in this society. Preventing the spread of violence has to be a priority.

Gun violence affects things like communities, basic institutions, and the health care system. A constant support at all levels of society will be required to prosperously address this bewildering and chronic problem. Addressing gun violence will require a multidimensional approach. Gun violence is an urgent, complex and multifaceted problem.

• Things like background checks and better enforcement have to be part of the solution.

• Thorough background checks of businesses that sell guns.

• Gun trafficking should be treated as a serious crime.

Everyone agrees that dangerous individuals-such as violent criminals, the mentally ill, drug abusers, and offenders of domestic violence- should not be permitted to own a firearm. To know or determine whether or not an individual is capable of handling or owning a firearm under the law a background check must be conducted.

Developmental issues

Reducing incidents of gun violence arising from criminal conduct or suicide is an important goal. Gun violence is higher in the United States than any other industrialized country. Things like mass shooting, domestic abuse, and homicide are the problem. All of the policies being proposed are recycled and many are already in effect. The problem with these policies is the opposition they are receiving from the public and some political officials. Social norms about behaviors a...

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...nce isn't just about availability of guns. It is about changing how the population looks at and deals with violence in the first place.”(Bike C. huffingtonpost.com)

“The link between guns, freedom and the American way of life runs long and deep in American history and culture. The link between the capacity to inflict violence on others and freedom goes back as far as the Revolutionary War.”(Approaches to Gun Violence)

Statistics on gun violence:

• Male 47%

• Female 13%

• White 33%

• Non White 18%

• Suicide: used a firearm 50%

• Homicide 68%

• Unintentional injuries 31%’

• Protection against crime 67%

“In her study of the gun-rights community, Burbick (2006) discovered that despite the inclusion of women and people of color in their ranks of gun ownership, gun culture is essentially of culture affirming and celebrating white manhood.”(Approaches to Gun Violence)