美国枪支暴力研究(英文)

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"A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed."
译文：纪律严明的民兵是保障自由州的安全所 必需的，人民持有和携带武器的权利不可侵犯 。
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Cases
Violent crime related to guns: Homicides
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Cases
School Shootings：
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1.Columbine High School massacre, April 20, 1999, Two senior students murdered a total of 12 students and one teacher by using guns. They injured 21 additional students, with three other people being injured while attempting to escape the school. The pair then committed suicide.The Columbine High School massacre is the deadliest mass murder committed on an American high school campus. 2.Virginia Tech massacre, April 16, 2007. A student shot and killed 32 people and wounded 17 others in two separate attacks before committing suicide.The massacre is the deadliest shooting incident by a single gunman in U.S. history. 3.Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, December 14, 2012.A young man shot twenty children and six adult staff members and wounded two at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Before driving to the school, he had shot and killed his mother at home. Then the suspect committed suicide by shooting himself. The massacre is the second-deadliest school shooting in United States history, after the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre.
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Second Amendment to the United States Constitution: The Second Amendment (Amendment II) to the United States Constitution is the part of the United States Bill of Rights that protects the right of the people to keep and bear arms. It was adopted on December 15, 1791, along with the rest of the Bill of Rights.
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Assasinations
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Abraham Lincoln 1809–1865
John F. Kennedy 1917–1963
Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929–1968
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Attitude and Solutions
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Gun control proponents often cite the relatively high number of homicides committed with firearms as reason to support stricter gun control laws. Gun rights advocates cite the use of firearms for selfprotection. U.S. policy aims to maintain the right of most people to own most types of firearms, while restricting access to firearms by people considered to present a higher risk of misuse. There are also restrictions on selling guns to people not resident in the state.
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America has a " Gun Culture" which can be traced back to the American Revolutionary War. It's easy to get a gun from a retail store in A百度文库erica.
Gun violence in the United States
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Gun violence is an intensely debated political issue in the United States. Gun-related violence is most common in poor urban areas and associated with gang violence, often involving male juveniles or young adult males. High profile gun violence incidents have fueled debate over gun policies.In 2010 there were 358 deaths involving rifles. Deaths involving the use of pistols in the US that same year totaled 6,009 including suicides.