How To Prevent Gun Violence Essay

Gun Violence is violence committed with the use of a gun. Whether it’s a toy gun or not, crimes are committed with these weapons. The “toy gun problem1” is that the incidents are tragic-”a child is involved, a mentally disturbed person does not recognize the gravity of his/her actions, or a person simply uses poor judgement.” One chief that was attacking this matter had a philosophical perspective and that was that “the problem is one of education; we must teach children and adults that violence and the use or threatened use of force, in play or for real, is not an acceptable solution to problems or conflict.” Which is difficult to teach our children when our country is in conflict/war consistently with other countries.

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Nicholson survived but the Los Angeles Police Department Chief Charlie Beck rested the blame on the toy gun industry. He told them to stop manufacturing these guns to look like the real ones. Before opening fire, LAPD officials claim that the officers ordered Jamar to drop the gun several times. Although witnesses claim that the officer fired as soon as he arrived at the scene and yelled “freeze.” If you’re a cop and someone is pointing a gun at you, you are going to assume the weapon is real and drawing your weapon is going to be your first response. The specific problem with this issue is that Jamar was shot in the back, meaning he wasn’t pointing the gun at the officer neither was he holding the gun, yet he was shot. There hasn’t been any background information released by the LAPD on the officer that shot Jamar Nicholson and they should. Employment and disciplinary histories of officers involved in fake-gun shootings should be made public by the police department so that citizens can see if these officers and incidents have anything in common. Senator Barbara Boxer initiated a bill earlier that year that enforced imitation guns to be either brightly colored or transparent. Still these didn’t change anything, because of the fact that anyone can easily be repainted and the orange caps can be taken

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