Weapons Persuasive Speech

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Imagine you walking into your house and you see your child laying there on the floor, cold, not moving because they overdosed or they shot themselves or they cut themselves to the point where they lost too much blood. How would that make you feel knowing you did nothing to help or stop it? Inventing things is a big deal because you can become famous for that product and get lots and lots of money. Those people who created products, have they thought of the consequences of it or how harmful it could be? Probably not but in my opinion, drugs, weapons, or sharp blades shouldn't have ever been invented. They're extremely harmful or even deadly and I think they shouldn't have ever been invented. People of all ages abuse the use of drugs. Teenagers …show more content…

You could just be walking down the streets and some random person pulls out a gun and starts shooting. Children want to take their lives because they've lost someone really close do to a shooting and that shooting took a huge part of their life away. Each year, more than 20,000 children under the age 20, are killed or injured by a firearm. Most youth deaths are homicides. Suicides account for about one third of all youth gun deaths, and intentional about 7 percent of those deaths. Studies show that children exposed to a gun is because of violence at home, at school, in the community, or through the media can experience negative psychological effects including posttraumatic stress, poor school performance, increased delinquency, risky sexual behaviors, substance abuse, and desensitization to violence. All these can make children and youth more prone to violence. 34 percent of teens said buying an illegal gun was easy to do. More than 25 percent of teens today know of someone who has been shot. Approximately 12 percent of teens attend school where another student has been killed by gun violence during the past year. More than one third of teens to this day fear they will be shot. To protect children from gun violence, parents must protect children from unsupervised exposure to guns through carefully parental monitoring and, if they choose to keep a gun at home by locked, unloaded, and separate from ammunition. Federal and state laws are informing laws to make it harder for children to purchase a gun. Changing of the gun features will hopefully be made so unintentional shootings among children and youth will be reduced. We need to really protect our children and if we do, think of how many lives are being saved because we're really supervising and protecting our

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