1 / 9

Gun Control

javascript:openWindow('windowsmedia.php?Clip=bankLG'). Gun Control. By Garrett Hogue. Fire-arm death rates. Per 100,000 people between the ages of 15 and 26. http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/figures/00001168.gif. Why us?. Some people say the reason is. Poverty

deirdre-lane
Download Presentation

Gun Control

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. javascript:openWindow('windowsmedia.php?Clip=bankLG') Gun Control By Garrett Hogue

  2. Fire-arm death rates Per 100,000 people between the ages of 15 and 26. http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/figures/00001168.gif

  3. Why us? Some people say the reason is... Poverty America has a violent history Violent video games

  4. http://www.tradingeconomics.com/unemployment-rates-list-by-countryhttp://www.tradingeconomics.com/unemployment-rates-list-by-country Is it Poverty? • Right now France’s unemployment rate is 9.8% when the U.S. has only 8.3%. • Yet in 2008 there were 142 gun murders in France when the U.S. had 9,484. www.gunpolicy.org

  5. Is it our violent history? • Does Germany not have a violent history? • Remember this? --> But in 2004, Germany only had 247 gun homicides when the U.S. Had 9,385. (Gunpolicy.org)

  6. Is it violent video games? Yet in 2002 Japan had 47 gun homicides when the U.S. Had 9,369. (gunpolicy.org) • Most of the violent video games come from japan, such as Mortal Kombat.

  7. Is it Gothic Music? Germany is home to one of the biggest hard rock festivals in the world, Rock AM Ring. Including lots of Gothic music. Yet in 2008 Germany had 57 gun homicides when the U.S. Had 9,484 (gunpolicy.org)

  8. How do we build tolerance? We all may not be in agreement with gun control laws but we need to build a tolerance for it. What the U.S. really needs is more control.

  9. Works Cited “Gun Policy Facts and News.” GunPolicy.org. gunpolicy.org, 2012. Web. 30 Mar. 2012. <http://www.gunpolicy.org/>. “Rates of Homicide, Suicide, and Firearm-Related Death Among Children -- 26 Industrialized Countries.” CDC. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 19 Sept. 1998. Web. 9 Apr. 2012. <http://www.cdc.gov///mmwrhtml/.htm>. “Unemployment Rates, List by Country.” Trading Economics. N.p., 2012. Web. 1 Apr. 2012. <http://www.tradingeconomics.com/-rates-list-by-country >.

More Related