Gun Control: Life Shot for My Eyes

The problem with gun control has been discussed for decades. People have given arguments about gun control in the US. Some cases have been about the 2nd amendment, while others argued that owning a gun is essential for self-defense. Furthermore, the problem with gun control in the US is the Saws are not in every street, and the youth involved with gun violence.

According to the data and statistics from “Injury Prevention and Control: Data and Statistics from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for ages 15–24 suicide death is the fourth leading cause of suicide firearm. According to Grinshteyn and Hemenway, the rate is 30 times more to occur than other countries such as The United Kingdom, and Spain is killing themselves at a young age in the US with guns."

Discussed continuously that safe storage gun laws decrease accidental gun deaths and suicides, while the effects on crime rates ignored. There seems to be no support that safe storage laws reduce youth unintentional gun deaths or suicides. The alternatives are the storage requirements look to stop people’s rights to use guns defensively. Safe storage laws increase violent and property crime against citizens with no benefits to reduce accidental deaths and suicides. Both Glen McDonald and Kemp Powers were involved in the accidental shooting. But, Chad’s brother's friend shot Chad and Chad’s father, Glen, was charged with involuntary manslaughter, while at age 14 Kemp Powers shot his friend Henry with a .38 caliber and thought the gun wasn’t loaded but had 17 felony charges dropped by Henry’s parent and took counseling for one year. It clears that they were both accidental shooting, but none of them expected to have a loaded gun in the incident and kill someone they knew.

Similarly, both should have made sure the gun was unloaded. These two incidents highlighted the deaths in accidental shooting with firearms. It also leads to making their story reach out to people that guns can cause violence by not using them the right way. Kemp Powers talks about the causes of gun violence as a speaker, while Glenn McDonald uses memories to remember his son as he was still alive.

In the book, Gary Younge, Another Day in the Death of America, talks about ten young lives from 10 deaths from guns. The book is not about gun control but a book about a country where there no gun control. All victims were at the start of their lives; instead, gun violence turns America’s lower class into victims. There were stories where young lives lost. A 9-year-old name Jaiden Dixon and 11-year-old Tyler Dunn, who were similar, they both love you as reality shows and both shot by people they knew. His mother’s ex-boyfriend shot Jaiden, Tyler mistakenly by his best friend and stories of innocent lives lost. Gary Younge uses power in his analysis. Younge focuses on reaction to feeling more deeply for “angels” or “innocents” by using devastation in the everyday killing.

Other incidents that relate to accidental shootings are in the article by Terrence McCoy. After a Toddler shot and killed his older sister. A family’s wounds run deep Kimi Reylander; a child from Alabama was involved in an accidental shooting where her younger brother, Jaxon, who shot her with a handgun that he found with other guns in the living room. There was no parental supervision, and the mother and great-grandfather came late to the incident. It leads to family struggles and arguments. Amanda and her boyfriend go for a drive and plugs her phone into the car’s stereo, puts on a hard rock song and sets down the phone, reaching a bottle of sleeping pills the doctor gave her because of the dreams of Kimi; Amanda saying to her, “You're dead,” and Kim saying, “No I’m not. I’m right here.”

Parents, grandparents, and friends believe their weapons are in a safe place hidden, but often children as young as a toddler know where to look to find the guns. An adult can be responsible for the incident and deal with the failure of the accidental shooting and accountable for not locking up their weapons or not putting it in a safe place. According to Dahlia Lithwick, in Gave Your Gun Out, Go to Jail, explains the number of gun deaths resulting from child shooters has not had an exact date. Estimates predict more than 3,000 children have shot. Most of them are more than two-thirds prevented if the gun owners left their weapons in a safe place.

Youth violence in the US, abuse happens in urban inner-city communities and areas with crimes committed, the youth experience crimes committed and victims of crimes. According to Hayward, III Thomas Impacting the Problem of Inner-City Youth Violence, death is the 2nd leading cause in the US ages 10 to 24. In 2007, the American youth were victims of over 631,00 violence-related injuries that involve no guns and gun violence. The EKG program split into two parts involving law enforcement professionals ad a medical expert. The first part of the program is law enforcement. The program shows situations where a youth expelled from school for possession of a gun on school grounds, and the officer asks the child about gun possession. The video resulted that a teen shot. To not be a suspect, the shooter gave his gun to his friend, then both convicted on felonies. The 2nd part of the video shows different cases of weapons involving victims of gunshot wounds.

Educating kids about Gun Violence Programs shows the respondent's self-assessment of the impact of the EKG program will keep me out of trouble, and 79% of respondents said yes. For future purposes, less to carry a gun is 69%. The youth think about the EKG programs, and the response was 78% yes. The average response was 77.4%, yes, to make a better choice involving guns in the future.

Safe-Storage laws are essential for a safe place for everyone; without gun control, a gun can get in the wrong hands. Gun control can be used the right way to protect yourself and the wrong way by not putting your arm to safety or a lock that puts people in danger and cause death or injury.