Mass Shootings and the Moral Decline in the U.S.
Megan jones
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There have been over 294 mass shootings in the U.S so far in 2015. Many people have been left wounded or dead due to them. Yet they have very little attention payed to them due to a combination of the FBI’s definition of a mass shooting being when 4 or more people are killed, and because no one who enjoys a lack of gun control wants to put an emphasis on the fact that people are being killed, very easily, because of guns.
Mass shootings have become so routine that unless they are absolutely disgusting and horrendous, very little focus is put on them, and even when they are disgusting and horrendous, the media, along with individuals, tend to sensationalize the shooting and act …show more content…
We have people in the U.S claiming that letting teachers have guns, letting school resource officers, letting authority figures in general have guns is a good thing, rather than acknowledging that guns are the main source of the problem. They don’t want to give up their guns for a variety of reasons, and they don’t want gun control to be stricter. We see these things happening in the news, police killing teens for barely a reason, mass shootings leaving people fatally wounded, school shootings, church shootings, mall shootings, etc. , and we feel sorry about it but nothing ever occurs because of it, because it’s too much trouble. Because everyone deserves a gun. We blame the decline of society on mental illness and a lack of religion rather than recognizing that it’s because the majority of society is not held responsible to care for their fellow citizens, and they’re more encouraged to care for themselves and their family then their neighbor. Many countries that have out lawed guns for the most part experience 0,1,2,3 shootings a year. We are one of the only countries who experience the phenomenon of Mass Mass shootings and it’s because as a society, social morals and caring about others beside yourself only apply to people ion your direct circle rather than your fellow
Megan jones
2
There have been over 294 mass shootings in the U.S so far in 2015. Many people have been left wounded or dead due to them. Yet they have very little attention payed to them due to a combination of the FBI’s definition of a mass shooting being when 4 or more people are killed, and because no one who enjoys a lack of gun control wants to put an emphasis on the fact that people are being killed, very easily, because of guns.
Mass shootings have become so routine that unless they are absolutely disgusting and horrendous, very little focus is put on them, and even when they are disgusting and horrendous, the media, along with individuals, tend to sensationalize the shooting and act …show more content…
We have people in the U.S claiming that letting teachers have guns, letting school resource officers, letting authority figures in general have guns is a good thing, rather than acknowledging that guns are the main source of the problem. They don’t want to give up their guns for a variety of reasons, and they don’t want gun control to be stricter. We see these things happening in the news, police killing teens for barely a reason, mass shootings leaving people fatally wounded, school shootings, church shootings, mall shootings, etc. , and we feel sorry about it but nothing ever occurs because of it, because it’s too much trouble. Because everyone deserves a gun. We blame the decline of society on mental illness and a lack of religion rather than recognizing that it’s because the majority of society is not held responsible to care for their fellow citizens, and they’re more encouraged to care for themselves and their family then their neighbor. Many countries that have out lawed guns for the most part experience 0,1,2,3 shootings a year. We are one of the only countries who experience the phenomenon of Mass Mass shootings and it’s because as a society, social morals and caring about others beside yourself only apply to people ion your direct circle rather than your fellow