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The Mass Shooting Epidemic in America

2024-01-13 08:11:37

Nine students were murdered at the Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon. A man fired at the church in Charleston, South Carolina, and nine people including the pastor died. 27 people died at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut State. Twelve people died at the Washington navy shipyard. This is just a few examples from a long list. Unfortunately, mass bombardment cases are becoming new normality. Every few months, another large shoot is taken and the general people experience the same mourning, respect, and ultimate debate.

Everyone is talking about the massive epidemic faced by the United States. Victims of 35 people in San Bernardino, California. 12 Colorado Springs, Colorado State. 19 in Roseburg, Oregon. This is only the past six months. For most of us, the increase in the number of fatalities can not be denied. Large-scale shooting cases occur frequently, and it is difficult to keep up with all stories. This is a tragic thing and the collective unrest in our country is calling for change in all of us. Everyone wants to save their lives.

Please temporarily show that you are a 22 year old college student in Kampala in Uganda. You are sitting in the classroom and carefully scrolling through Facebook on your phone. You will see large shooting again in America, this time in a place called San Bernardino. You have not heard of it. You have never been to America. But you must have heard a lot about American gun violence. A new large shooting case seems to occur every week. You want to go there and see if you can pass more strict gun control. You will be the hero of Americans, solve problems and save lives. How difficult is it? There may be fellowship like a noble person going to America after graduating from college and being trained with social entrepreneurs. You can start a nonprofit organization that ends large shooting and you may even get humanitarian rewards when you are 30 years old.

Collective gunfire cases are prevalent in this country. From Colombine to Virginia Tech University, Orlando, Las Vegas to Parkland, these horrible gun violence shows are specific to Americans. The same unique American is the epidemic of the police murder. There are about 1,100 people nationwide annually, and unbalanced black people and Browns are died by police hands. However, unlike media empathy reports on school shooting, perpetrators and victims were disproportionately white and young blacks and Browns stood up protesting that they were murdered by the police system. Extreme, and even national violence. How to define an innocent as a society as a society; we consider who is the "victim" of gun violence