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Zain Alsaadi

English

Ms. Avant

January 1, 2017

Gun Violence

Argument: Gun laws and regulations are too loose and when gun violence takes place, The age in which one is legally allowed to purchase a firearm is too young and Gun laws aren’t strict enough leading to the media blaming mass shootings on the “mentally ill”

1. Media steers away from gun control and focuses more on the shooters

1. Mental Illness instead

B. How American people try to blame terrorist organizations or mental illness of the shooters.

II. Poor gun control leads to shootings that are then blamed on by mental illness

1. Other reasons mass shootings have increased

1. The “typical” mass shooter

2. Seeing it on TV leads to impressionable or sick people wanting to do the same

B. Numbers and evidence of increase

C. Examples of the most horrific cases

D. Gun control vs. Mental Illness

E. How the media portrays mental illness once a mass shooting has been committed

III. Prevention

1. Change the Age in Which one can buy firearms

2. Stricter laws with gun control