Gun Crime

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,

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