Guns & Violence

Most people who are killed yearly by a gun are under the age of twenty. Most of these people are young teenagers and little kids. Some of this is due to the graphic material in the media which does not show the real pain from being shot. It also fails to show the heavy burden left on the families of those who were shot. Many gunshot victims however do not have health insurance so the taxpayers must bear the burden of medical costs.The media focuses on only the negative gun incidents, not the positive ones. The ones where people are killed. Not the ones where a gun saved a persons life. People blame the gun too much. They never blame the person holding the gun. Instead of taking away peoples guns we need to take away the crazy people behind them. Also gun violence is exaggerated in America. There are other countries with higher death counts from guns than America.

I do think that guns are a problem. Mostly with kids twenty years and younger. The reason for this I think is there are, "too many guns, too easy for a wacko kid to grab and go bonkers"(Kim 22). I can't stand the fact that because of people being hurt in gun violence the taxpayers are having to pay more just because most of the people being shot have no health insurance. I do not think that it is right for us to have to pay more. We could help stop this if we could limit the sale of firearms.

Kim, Henny. Guns & Violence. San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press, 1999. Print.