Cortez, Michelle. “Tougher Gun Laws Mean Fewer American Kids Die, Study Says.

” Time, 15
July 2019, https://time.com/5626352/gun-laws-fewer-child-deaths/

It states that countries that have more gun control policies have 4 % fewer deaths
for children under the age of 21 and that there is a 35% lower risk to states that
have a universal background checks for firearm purchases
It also states that studies done before have proven that death from weapons have
lowered when specific gun control policies were set that included background
checks for buying guns or ammunition and identification measures like
microstamping weapons

This site does a good job of including evidence and where it comes from, the
information given is also very well organized and easy to understand.
I could use this research as an argument that gun control laws aren’t safe enough
and if they were to become a lot more strict then, gun deaths and violence will
lower and a lot more people would be safer

“Gun Violence in America.” Everytown Research & Policy, 27 Apr. 2021,

https://everytownresearch.org/report/gun-violence-in-america/

This site uses a lot of statistical evidence on how much gun violence there exists in
the US using publicly available data . It starts off by writing that everyday at least a
hundred Americans die of gun violence every day and 250 suffer from an injury
caused by a gun. We get the evidence on suicide rates in the US by gun and they are
10x higher than other countries with high-incomes and gun owner ship triples the
risk of suicide. Then there is homicide, which is the cause of more than ⅓ of gun
deaths. Statistically speaking, America's homicide rates are 25x more than other
countries with big-incomes. Gun ownership doubles the homicide rates. The site
talks about children/teens' leading cause for death are firearms in the US. 1,800 kids
die from gun related deaths yearly and kids under the age of 13 deaths more oftenly
happen in their homes. At Least 3 million kids witness gun violence yearly. Last but
not least, it talks about domestic violence. In the US a female is 21x more likely to die
from a gun than other countries with large incomes. Monthly, 57 women die from
guns and in a domestic fight, if a partner owns a gun, the woman is 5x more likely to
die from it.
“APHA Advocacy Fact Sheet for Gun Violence Prevention.” GUN VIOLENCE IS A PUBLIC
HEALTH CRISIS, 27 Mar. 2021, pp. 1–3.,
www.apha.org/-/media/files/pdf/factsheets/200221_gun_violence_fact_sheet.ashx.

- This website provides 3 important things, it starts by telling us how gun violence
affects different communities from different ages and races… It uses important stats
like that for US citizens from the ages of 15-24 , homicide is 4th cause of death for
European, Middle Eastern, and North African Americans, 2nd cause of death for
Hispanics, and 1st cause of death for nonHispanic blacks.
- Then it talks about how it is preventable and the first steps that need to be
acknowledged when wanting to prevent it, that it needs a “comprehensive public
health approach”.
- Last but not least, it mentions the steps we need to take to help prevent it, those
include: There needs to be more research conducted on gun violence, to implement
better gun control laws like criminal background checks for anyone buying a
weapon and extreme risk protection orders need to be put in all states.
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- This article includes great information regarding how to prevent gun violence,
however, the research done here on the “burden of gun violence,” isn’t one that I will
necessarily use throughout my research paper, my focus is more on the data
presented on how we can prevent more gun deaths or what we can do, I plan on
using this info in an argument of the steps that can be taken to help or what needs to
be taken of first for there to be better protection against guns.

Ashfaq, Rameesha S. "Addressing the Increase of Gun Violence Related Deaths in the United
States and How to Reduce Them." 2021.
https://jscholarship.library.jhu.edu/bitstream/handle/1774.2/63887/Ashfaq-Capstone%2
0Project-2021.pdf?sequence=1

- The article starts off by telling us that The Gun Violence Archive released statistics
during the 1st week of January showing there were at least 19,223 homicides due to
gun violence in 2020 – a roughly 25% increase over 2019. Furthermore, gun related
murders increased by 30% in 2020, with 39% of them being tied to gun violence,
which has been a chronic concern in the United States due to easy accessibility to
weapons. Every year, many Americans are killed by gun violence, specifically about
40,000 people and that annually, the number of people killed by firearms is growing.
This article also addresses the history of gun regulations in the United States as well
as present gun regulation, emphasizing the seriousness of the issue of growing
gun-violence-related deaths in The United States. The efficiency and inefficiency of
 existing policies are evaluated depending on the states in which they are
implemented.
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- The data is analyzed in order to suggest a strategy that might help reduce
gun-related death rates in the United States by promoting the purchasing of gun
licenses after extensive background checks and psychiatric exams. The proposal
includes a driving event, the history and context of gun restrictions, a policy
suggestion, a law and political assessment of the law.
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- There is a lot of research presented in this article, and what I'm focused on using is
the proposal and strategies given to make my argument on what laws can be given
against gun violence or alternative solutions to help provide better protection
against guns in the US.

Smith, Christopher E. "Gun policy: Politics and pathways of action." Violence and gender 7.2
(2020): 40-46. https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/vio.2019.0021

According to the researchers, the issues and catastrophic effects of gun crime will
not go away on their own. They claim that a succession of high-profile shootings in
August 2019 drew the nation's attention. However, they argue, popular opinion and
well reported tragedies do not always translate into laws and strategies to reduce
gun violence. They say that with four months left in the year, 2019 has already
witnessed 283 multiple victim shootings in 244 days. The suicides of two Parkland
High School students in Florida and a parent in Newtown, Connecticut, are
mentioned.

The site talks about mass shootings, particularly those that result in the deaths and
injuries of children, teenagers, and unidentified victims, creating public dread and
anger, bringing gun control discussions into the mainstream. These incidents
prompt calls for stronger gun rules, yet the aftermath of such massacres can result
in eased restrictions .According to research, “a mass shooting in the preceding year
raises the number of policies approved that reduce gun regulations by 115 [%] in
states with Conservative lawmakers.”

The site has a lot of important information regarding gun laws and policies and how
even after mass shootings, gun restrictions become less and less strict, making it
easier for people to purchase guns. This piece of information is a great argument in
my research paper on how the US needs to work on their gun control policies
because even after the majority of the public asks for better protection against guns,
there still aren’t strong laws implemented in most states.
Swearer, Amy. “Broad Gun-Control Restrictions Are Not the Answer.” The Heritage
Foundation, 16 Nov. 2018,
www.heritage.org/firearms/commentary/broad-gun-control-restrictions-are-not-th
e-answer.

The website states that gun regulations are in fact, not effective. It says that after
there is a mass shooting in public, the media and people start wanting to have more
effective gun control laws, but that won’t help. It uses the evidence that in 2018, 11
mass shooting have occured and that California, which has an A rating for its gun
control laws has had 3 mass shootings, Minnesota with an A- rating has had another
2, and also in Pennsylvania with a C rating had also 2
But instead, Texas, with an F rating has had 6.6 percent of mass shooting since the
2000

The site also states that we need to look at the other issues that cause gun violence,
that is, Mental health problems, gang violence, drugs, black market and lack of
education that leads to poverty and crime.