Another Meaningless Gun Violence Post? Not if I can help it.

The Solution To It All

Aryan Mukherjee
February 25, 2023

A cacophonous blare erupts in the background, as the heartbeats sporadically pop out of their sockets. The ravens rip through the sky, their once tactful caws now hinted with remorse and a pinch of trepidation. Another sound blares through, this one a hearty cackle, namely from one Iyana Hutton. Suddenly, a spurt of blood erupts from her mouth, and she crumbles to the ground, victim of her own insolence. A steel apparatus slowly untangles itself from her grip, and falls to the ground with a definitive thump. Just a few hours earlier, she was enjoying herself by a party house, the lurching scathe of the grim reaper not yet poised to take its slash. The irresponsibility adjoined with gun use tarnished her inner conscience, and one gun battle later at Beverly Hills, and she died alongside Nenah Davis and Destiny Sims.

Gun Violence has been an issue since 1000 AD, when the weaponry was first conceived. It has wiped out millions of lives in the United States, and as the bullets rain down from the wrath of God, their perpetrators cower under the umbrella of the Second Amendment. All past methods, tried and through, have failed miserably in the lust of those loyal to the shot, and extreme action has been shied away for self-preservation of the only higher officials who have it in their power to restore world safety. It’s time for change, and a radical one at that. If there are certain problems associated with gun violence, then people undergoing those problems need to be prevented from using guns.

According to a study of poverty rates relating to gun violence from 2019 to 2020, high poverty areas had a 3.1-point increase in gun violence, while low poverty areas had a 0.4-point increase. But poverty isn’t an issue that can simply be snapped away in an instance, rather a disease that is infecting people all over the nation and stipulating an urge to bring up arms.

In addition, alcohol usage can cause people to lose their right senses, and if alcoholics and drunkards repeatedly are cashing up offenses with firearms, then clearly some sort of correlation may be pertinent. Specifically, the firearm suicide rate in the nation increased 86-fold when alcohol was thrown into the mix, and even higher when any sort of drugs were in play as well.

So gun violence is definitely an issue, especially when coupled with other devastating social dilemmas such as alcoholism and poverty. But what about the police? It can most certainly be argued that authoritarian forces can step up their game in order to curtail the issue, and all of the second amendment supporters can form an agreement, right?

Well, a University of Pennsylvania criminologist found that in respect to police interference, although about 54% of the time police officers have stabilized homicide rates by guns, the overall trends of gun violence seemingly increase and decrease despite any actions taken by the police. In this case, correlation does not correspond with causation, and gun battles can still run rampant regardless of any threats made by the police.

So is banning guns the only solution? Not quite. Certain measures could also incorporate licensing guns, passing more gun laws, allowing doctors to educate patients, and ending legality options for gun production, all with proven benefits to the case. But if we truly want to see an end to this horrifying regime of gun violence and battles across the nation, then it might just be time for an ultimatum to break free of the cold metal shackles around our ankles.

Drugs can have a devastating effect on the decisions that people make in life. Reportedly, millions of people in the United States have had experiences with drugs, and it has obscured their senses and enabled them to make irresponsible decisions such as resorting to gun violence.



Negative influences in people’s environments can cause them to feel depression and anxiety. Even students have developed increasing rates of such pessimistic emotions in past years, and several school shootings and incidents of violence in adolescence arise from gun possession at these times.



When people buy guns, they tend to have an uncanny urge to want to use them. Even something as simple as a toy gun has been proven to spark connections in people’s brains and associate gun violence with a positive connotation in people.

Alcohol, especially if abused, can be a leading cause of gun violence as it impedes upon people’s senses. Specifically, when alcohol has been consumed as a way of getting past hard times or via partying, it has led to several instances where, coupled with the inclusion of a firearm, homicide has occurred.

Gun violence is one of the leading causes of death in the United States, and several innocent people like the individual in the image above(fake) constantly perish due to inappropriate usage of such machinery. In times past, many political associations have endeavored to take steps to reverse this issue, but their feeble efforts haven’t come close enough to fully banning guns.