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Gun Violence and Pevention on a Individual and Community Level

I started to go in a different direction with my gun crime blogs, I wrote about events that dealt with gun violence and showed how much of a problem it was but now I want to list ways to prevent this epidemic. First, I think it is essential to know what levels the issue must be worked and solved on. It can’t be stopped all at once so we must first do it individually and then within our communities. Individually we must take action in seeking treatment when we have or see someone showing signs of mental illness. We see shootings take place in schools, workplace, and social events and in our homes due to people needing to intervene and getting mentally ill people to seek mental help. It is not that these people are dangerous, they just need serious intervention from loved ones and professionals as early as possible once the signs are clear to see. Secondly we must work on stopping gun crimes on a community level. It is important as a community to know how to practice first aid,
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Las Vegas Tragedy

I know the Las Vegas shooting had a lot of us pretty shook, even though we weren’t there to witness it, I know we all felt kind of affected by it. Again to remind you all of the incident, a 64 year old  Stephen Paddock, was the cause of a mass shooting which killed 59 people and left 500 people dead. This took place on October 1 st at around 10 pm at a country music festival. I can only imagine how the witnesses, people injured and the family and friends of those who were involved are feeling and what they are going through. This incident is said to have been noted as one of the deadliest mass shootings in America. Prior to the shooting investigators try and figure out whether there were any leads up until this shooting and what they found was rather disturbing. Stephen Paddock apparently was staying at the Mandalay Bay hotel and he checked in with 10 bags alone. Within these 10 bags were 23 firearms and explosives after detectives and policemen found where Paddock was stayi
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Black Friday, Trump and Guns

This year on Black Friday companies are expecting to sell more guns than ever before; by giving out a 10% discount and bringing in new stock they expect to have a successful holiday this upcoming November. Before the election members of the NRA and gun shops thought they may actually go out of business because of Hilary's plans of tightening up on gun control, but since Trump won people were at ease.  However, they were not completely right.             “Gun sales slowed precipitously after Donald Trump won presidency” (Smith, 9/27/2017). The assumption has been made that U.S companies will benefit only if other countries have a demand for guns but indeed Trump does intend to loosen the export on firearms. But we have to remember that this is about preventing weapons from entering the hands of people who “use them to commit human rights violations, terrorism and criminal purposes”.             It could’ve been foreseen that once Trump became president the gun control policy wo
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PrePost

Hey ladies, it is crazy how this class has only girls in but this is my blog and I am going to tell you a little about myself before introducing my topic. My name is Brianna Wilson-Hooper, I am a junior here at Eastern Illinois University, I am currently majoring in health administration and I am really loving this major so far. I plan on becoming a nurse practitioner once I graduate and start my career. I am from the North side of Chicago (Cabrini Green Area) but my mom, dad and brothers currently reside near the Chicago loop. I come from neighborhoods that aren't the safest and have definitely made the news due to gun violence. How many of us can attest to watching the news, constantly seeing that the death rate is going up due to gun crimes? I know I can, and honestly it feels like it is becoming the norm for someone to lose their life to a senseless act of violence. Everyday I worry about the men and young boys in my family specifically my little brothers and cousin who is on
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