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In the modern era, gun violence is the hotly debated issue of American society and the whole world. The world is divided between the two groups of people on this issue, one who is against the use of guns and second who is in favor of gun usage. Further to aggravate the situation, easy accessibility to ammunition by the lawmaking firms and availability of cheap guns and powders have made it more reachable and in the limelight. This issue of gun violence is growing the immensely serious law concerns and health issues, as there are many laws pertaining to acquiring guns in America. It is considered as a necessary evil in this society as if life is not possible without this liability. However, we could do much better without guns, even when it comes to protection and safety; there are many other modes of security. The majority of media coverage is given on the aspects of the negative side of guns, such that mass shootings and killings by an armed person. The consequences of such events are very pervasive and adversely affect the children, families and hence whole communities. In fact, the killing due to nuclear and suicide bombing has been subsided due for the entire focus on gun violence. This argumentative essay will focus on the adverse effects of guns and its ownership giving rise to the suicide rates (Edwards, np).

Weapons are the most utilized methods associated with deaths by aggressive behavior at home, expanding the rate of killing a significant other. There have been mass-shootings causing the huge number of fatalities by the year 2018 in the United States (nytimes.com). And reportedly by the first week of 2019, there were around five-thousand incidents related to gun violence. The children who witness an act of violence in their homes, schools, or community over the past year are more than 25%, and the ratio of those children who get to see the shooting is more than 5%, it is not only a growing issue of gun violence, but also relates to the traumatic impact on the emotional well-being of children due to such violence (Lyall, np). Although the issues of the mental and emotional health of the community are the part of gun violence or any kind of violence, the question also arises on the mental health of the gun perpetrators. Obviously, a person with a rational mind and sanity would not load a gun and start killing people right out of the blue. It takes a crazy amount of courage and insanity for being the destructive self for one's own self and the others.

The possession of ammunition or guns is regular in America. Individuals report the need for firearms due to security reasons, and some said it for the purpose of sport (SAS). Anyway, the presence of a gun in the home really builds the pace for suicide, murder, abusive behavior at home, and mishaps. Since particularly the events of the suicide of gun owners and family are more than the occasions of using it for safety, it questions the security assumed of guns. The suicide rate in America represents the greater part of the gun-related occurrence, and this issue is amazingly overlooked. The wounds, injuries resulting in making a person handicapped or even die due to gun-violence significantly elevate the hospital costs, insurance costs, taxes and cost from the case following in criminal court. However, the violence of guns has neither been mainstream with general public nor with governing bodies; maybe the level of savagery may now encourage talk about the manner in which these weapons are controlled or regulated.

The Second Amendment Constitution expresses that, "A very much directed volunteer army, being important to the security of a free express, the director of the general population to keep and carry weapons, will not be encroached." Regardless of the weapon control, guns can still be purchased from gun shows or secretly with no record verifications from the unlicensed merchants (Schallhorn, np). The perpetrators had access and intentions based on the mental ability or mindset which must be deteriorated due to mental health issues or depression/anxiety. Even if this amendment gives the right to the ammunition, this does not mean to load and take the guns on the road and start killing anybody a person dislikes or is not okay with. Banning guns will not violate this freedom, there could be alterations done in this amendment.

In history, there have been infinite shootings, mass killings, homicides, and suicides reported from gun-shots. Most Americans are ignorant of the fact that suicide due to weapons or guns happens significantly more regularly than all other consolidated shootings. Therefore it is the most developing and customary methods for suicide irrelevant to the gender, age or sexual orientation, education level or race. It is the main source of death in the individuals who buy guns for the very first time. Despite being acquired for individual security, a greater number of fatalities in a house are suicide caused by firearms. According to surveys, women attempt suicide multiple times as regularly when guns are available in a home rather than in residences (gunviolencearchive). However, mental illness is the most important element in the attempt for suicide, due to the reason that suicide is mostly done under pressure or constant strain caused by the depression and anxiety or moreover extreme intoxication. Mindfulness about the recurrence of such spontaneous acts is restricted. The providence of guns promptly increases the trigger in the impulsivity and hence leads to massive suicides (AFSP).

Weapons are the most utilized methods associated with deaths by aggressive behavior at home, expanding the rate of killing a significant other. There are far more chances of women being shot in the homes where such weaponry is accessible as opposed to families without them (CDC, np). The murder of a family member is substantially more likely than halting a trespasser. Unfortunately, numerous American kids are shot to death due to the availability of gun at homes.

Apparently, the adverse effect of gun violence is present in society. Other than the factors of being dead or disabled, the survivors of any such occasion to persevere a long-lasting impact through mental injury and trauma. The children who go through such traumatic events develop pathologies in the developmental stages, and the adults also face mental health issues. Constantly living under such circumstances where gun violence is common, and there are deaths every now and then just due to gun-fire, this detrimentally affects the people and provides an inappropriate example of living.

Emergency clinics, injury focuses, and recovery or the facilities or nursing homes are overflowed with mass casualties due to shootings. The services of acute healthcare vicinities are mostly used for harmed people, as these patients are not registered in an insurance company at majority times. The financial effect expands past the crisis of treatment and proceeds with constant brokenness, restoration, and disability for a longer time. The expenses of the restorative cost are charged on every citizen but mostly is covered by the tax-payers and government. Such costs enlarge the expenses for medicinal, handicap care, and disaster protection; the dues related to rising premiums are covered by organizations, governments, and the general community. The medical bill for acute care due to gun violence in the United States is reportedly more than $4 billion per anum and including the follow-ups and long-term checkups which are up to $100 billion per year (Morrissey, np). For reducing this healthcare cost, a serious step towards the banning of guns is needed.

The usage of guns creates violence which further adds to the costs of workings done by the police, court indictments, lawful inclusions, and detainments, again putting a strain on the tax-payers. Moreover, the handicap installments, productivity loss, and brokenness in the form of emotional and physical well-being add to the expenses. Weapons have become customary and so much incorporated in the culture that Americans are now habitual of this bloodshed. Thus the adverse effects of gun and the violence it creates is impacted in emotional as well as physical connotation. Regardless of the political and social controversy, and the elevated levels of expenditures in the form of taxation and insurances, gun violence is still in practice. The choices could be made by Americans in this regard, whether to keep the extra burden on the head of this society or eliminate this weight by implementing the laws and abiding by them.

This argumentative essay focused on the adverse effects of guns and its ownership giving rise to the suicide rates and concluding on the fact that gun violence is not a necessary evil of the society. We could do much better without guns, even when it comes to protection and safety; there are many other modes of security rather than being loaded with guns. Therefore, the abiding rules and laws for citizens will diminish this evil for good from our society. As rightly assumed that weapons are the most utilized methods associated with deaths by aggressive behavior at home, expanding the rate of killing a significant other, increasing the suicide ideation in the gun owners by mounting the rate of suicides by these guns.

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Schallhorn, Kaitlyn. “How Do Gun Background Checks Work? A Look at the Current System.” Fox News, FOX News Network, 22 Feb. 2018, www.foxnews.com/politics/how-do-gun-background-checks-work-a-look-at-the-current-system.