Persuasive Speech On Gun Violence

When we talk about death by gun violence most people think about mass shooting at a school and it is very easy to fall into one of two categories. Either all gun violence deaths are cause by the gun or by the gun owner. But to understand gun violence deaths it is important to understand what exactly gun violence is. Gun violence is a combination of different circumstances: from kids finding his or her father’s gun to spree killing to mass murder to domestic violence to gang violence. Solutions cannot be found as one big idea; there is no “one size fits all.” Gun regulations should stay the as they are currently because too many laws make it harder for people who use guns for protection to get guns, criminals will get guns easier if there are

Andrew Goddard, father of Colin who was shot four times in room 211 of Norris Hall at Virginia Tech, pleas, “I want you to look at him lying there with all the pipes, tubes and wires of modern medicine connected all over his body. I want you to listen to the beeps and whirs of the machines that are working to help his body overcome the multiple shots. I want you to look at his face and see perhaps your own child or a loved one and feel with me the helplessness of being a parent that can do nothing for their child at that moment. You will learn, as I did, that bullet wounds are not sewn shut, due to risk of infection, but left to bleed. I want you to watch, as I did, as blood oozes from the five holes in his body, soaking the dressings, his pillow and his bed sheets. You will learn, as I did, that bullet fragments lodged in his body are not routinely removed and that they will stay with him for life, as will the huge titanium rod driven down the full length of his femur to stabilize the fracture. I wanted to take you to that bedside to remind you of the suffering of the survivors; I will leave it to others more qualified than I to take you to the place from which the majority of the other victims will never return.” On September 11, 2001, al Qaeda terrorists carried out the most horrifying attack on US soil ever, killing more than 3000 people in several locations. The government sprung into action and

“The latest tragedy at Virginia Tech [where a student shot and killed 32 people on April 16, 2007], one side argues, might have ended with only a few people dead if there had been an armed citizen on the scene to shoot it out with the killer” (Medred). While other people believe that the Virginia Tech tragedy could have been prevented if there was better gun control. “The latest tragedy at Virginia Tech, the other side argues, wouldn 't have happened at all if there was better gun control, if it was hard to get a gun, if guns were banned, etc” (Medred).Both arguments are as valid as they are invalid. No one can know what might have happened if there had been someone on the scene able and willing to stop the killer with a bullet. Likewise, no one can know if any gun law would have stopped, or even slowed, this killer 's commitment to his murderous