Youth and Gun Control

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Introduction
No parents should ever have to worry about sending their children to school. Wondering if they will come home alive or come home injured. What kind of world are we living in? Where students have to be scared to leave their house and go anywhere because you never know where someone could snap. You just don’t want to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. No student should ever have to worry about going to school. Should there be a better way to control the violence? Guns shouldn't be that easy to get a hold of because easy access will leave us wondering why they want to kill so badly, gun dealers make it easy to get them, and it increases youth violence.
Reasons for violence
What would cause students or minors to act out with violence, rage, assault, bullying? Many students show signs of breaking down, snapping, but no one really notices. When students stop doing what they enjoy, shutting everyone out, or even failing to do good in school that’s a sure sign that students may be ready to snap. “Each year more than 20,000 minors are are killed every year due to violence or shootings in schools” (Behrman 39-54). Studies show that that most of the shootings are caused by people feeling rejected, bullied, individuals that feel different than their peers, or they are self conscious that they won't be accepted or won't fit in with their peers (Stephen 3). Studies have also been done to show that white males are more likely to open fire rather than African American males, the same study will also show you that it is a cause of bullying or teasing from homophobia. The boys who are teased and bullied achieve the psychological resilience that enables them to weather adolescence without reecourse to random school violence ...

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... will have no reason to want to harm others or themselves. If only the world were better to cut down on crime, theft and shootings. What a world that would be. Schools making programs to help cut down on crime is really smart. Teaching the students how to deal with their feelings and the dangers of firearms can hopefully cut down the crime of students.

Works Cited

Behrman, Richard. "Children, Youth, and Gun Violence." Future of Children 12.2 (2002): 39-54.
Duker and Laurie, Duker, Laurie. Gun Dealers, USA. Arlington : National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health, Arlington, VA. , 1994. Print.
Reuters, Thomas. "Random School Shootings, 1982-2001." Adolescent Masculinity, Homophobia, and Violence46.10 (2003): 1.
Stephen, Phillips. "Teasing, rejection, and violence: Case studies of the school shootings." - Leary. Stephen Phillips, n.d. Web. 3 Mar. 2014

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