Main Causes Of Gun Violence

Today’s world is marked by violence and deaths. One of the major kinds of violence is the gun violence. In fact, the gun violence is literally any gun related violence or death. According to the 2013 report of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the number of gun related deaths were equal to 33169 or 1.3% of all deaths in the country. This gun violence issue affects the population by the number of deaths but also on many other levels of life. In fact, this issue is broad and has different faces depending on which angle you look at it. This paper will analyze the different faces of the issue, those who are mostly affected by gun violence, the areas with the most numbers of gun related violence as well as the periods that were mostly

Obviously, the issue’s title itself implies that the main cause of the issue is the gun. However, there are some other reasons behind gun violence such as the population’s mentality, level of education, background and history as well as the population susceptibility to violence. In fact, according to Cody Edwards, an American reporter based in Paris who conducted a comparison between the United States and Switzerland came to realize that the society’s natural behavior plays a great role as far as gun violence goes. The United States of America and Switzerland both have high numbers of guns however, Switzerland has lower rates of gun related violence whereas the United States have higher rates of gun violence. In fact, he came to the conclusion that the United States has higher rates of gun violence due to its violent nature whereas Switzerland has lower rates of gun violence due to its peaceful

According to the Honorable Maria L. Fudge, the African-American youth is affected by gun violence in a different way. In fact, she states: “Gun related homicide is the leading cause of death among African American men, ages 15-19; African Americans are six times more likely than whites to be victims of a homicide; and though African American youth only represent around 15 percent of the total youth population, they have comprised up to 45 percent of gun deaths.” She also adds that eighty percent of those who commit suicide are white