Guns in the United Stated美国枪支暴力

Guns in the United Stated

A shooting incident at Sandy Hook Elementary school in Connecticut Friday, December 14th,2012 left at least 28 people dead, most of them were students from five to ten. This is one of the worst mass shooting in US history.

It is reported that the shooter had been identified as Adam Lanza who was 20 years old. At the scene of the day, he first shot the school headmaster, then broke into a classroom where his mother teaches, he shot his mother and then 20 students. After that he killed himself.

In the afternoon, Obama delivered a speech towards this incident with tears down. Also, he ordered flags flown at half staff at US public buildings. He said the United States must take measures to prevent the recurrence of similar incidents.

An American scholar says, "Every American citizen is born with a rifle."This is to some degree correct,as the American gun culture do have a long history.

When the Independent War happened, people with private guns first opened fire which led to the beginning of the war. Many Americans think that the victory of the Independent War was largely determined by the fact that most Americans own and carry guns with them. After that, during the Civil War, the Lincoln government encouraged the public to own guns,and meanwhile support massive production of all kinds of guns. All these measures helped to establish the important position of guns in American’s mind.Consequently, the Americans began to take the right of owning guns privately for granted. Therefore,during the long process of history,the gun culture has been fully formed and developed in the US. As a result,the right of owning guns has been considered as a right that can not been derived. Because owing guns and using guns has become an important part of American life style and in some way , a significant part in the US politics.

There is no denying that guns has great contributions to the history of United States, especially in the war time. But on the other hand ,in the modern time , guns are becoming a more serious problems these days in the United States. Guns are not only the symbol of power and masculinity, but also the symbol of violent. It can brings turbulence in society and

makes people feel insecure. As a result, it negative effects have brought more than positive ones which we can obviously seen from many shooting events in American recent years.

Gun violence is also an intensely debated political issue in the United States. Gun-related violence is most common in poor urban areas and in conjunction with gang violence, often involving juveniles or young adults.

According to a survey, the US gun violence has ranked first among the developed countries. A population of three hundred million Americans have more than twenty-five million guns, each year thirty thousand people died in the shooting, and about two hundred thousand people got wounded by gun violence. Everyone may under the threaten of gun violence.

According to the US gun law, private gun is the constitution of the United States security rights rather than privileges, and as long as legitimate, gun carry no regional restrictions. Each year, handguns are used in hundreds of thousands of violent crimes in the U.S. Approximately 100,000 students bring guns to school every day. In 1994, firearms were the weapons used in approximately seven out of every 10 murders. It means if 10 people died by murder, 7 of them were killed by handgun.

From above, it can be easily conclude that people in the United State may feel more secure by carrying gun, like people have gun just because their neighbors have gun, so they can protect themselves or protect their family when someone hurt them or their family, they have power fight back legally. To some degree, carry guns can bring peace to them and it help people to self-defense

But on the other hand, this also brings a large amount of problems to the society, compare with other countries which forbid people to possess guns, the US has more crime rate and has more gun violence. It becomes easier for criminals to rob others with guns in their hands. And it becomes more often for people to take revenge with guns. Also it increase the rate of suicide. Throughout American history, many politicians were also died by shooting, these have included the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, George Moscone, Harvey Milk and John Lennon.

President Obama promised to press for tighter gun law early next year, as he tried to turn national outrages over the Connecticut school massacre into action to ban assault weapons