Gun Violence in America
There are raging political debates about gun control in America. Most poor urban cities are characterized by gun violence always attributed to gang violence. These gangs always comprise of young adults and juvenile males. Increased cases of highly organized mass killings have orchestrated gun laws, even as the scenarios become rare. Reports released by researchers indicate that gun murders in the U.S. totals to 7,000 using firearms. Rifles using telescope sights in concealed sites committed assassinations of high profile individuals such as Martin Luther King (Strain, 2010).
Gun violence is a major problem in America. This is a common phenomenon in America; it is gaining a lot of attention in the mainstream media. The U.S. is struggling with the poor political anthropology trying to develop strategies to address issues pertaining to gun crime and violence. Anthropologists have been defeated and are calling for more stakeholders to help investigating this deadly issue. Anthropologists have not attained a comprehensive position on the issue of guns. They hold diverse opinions on contentious issues. This is an accurate indication of how anthropologists feel and react towards gun violence in America. The U.S. must fight to ban and reduce all semi-automatic weapons just as Britain did. This involves reaching people with a spontaneous negative response towards gun control (Gullotta, Adams & Ramos, 2008).
Anthropologists must actively participate in this issue because they have permanent assumptions regarding human nature, history, and culture, which need to be challenged. The lens of ethnography is founded based on firearms. For long, this has been an underestimated feature of the remarkable indifference of anthropology to the main sources of suffering and mayhem in the contemporary America. Anthropologists have been reluctant in writing about firearms, but research reveals that these firearms are responsible for the deaths of approximately 40,000 American citizens per year. Out of the deaths, it has been estimated that 19000 are out of suicide, 14000 homicides, and the rest accidents. It is evident that many Americans are dying from suicides, gun homicides compared to the last 30 years in terrorist attacks and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan combined (DeConde, 2009).
Political perspectives
When politicians are in the late stages of life, they have little conversations as they undertake the governments' mandate of their jobs. Visitors are guided programmatically to their relevant electronic signing points given the bureaucracy requiring them to follow long queues. Desks where politicians sit are positioned beside the framed photos bearing the portraits of president Obama and another of his vice Biden. It is very easy to understand that politicians would rather any other pictures than those ones (Strain, 2010). Politicians are devoted members of their parties and one of the issues that he first brought up in political debates was about gun control. The new limitations restricting restrict their guns with one, which they safely keep at home and are not a threat to society. Politicians did not start shooting recently. In fact, most politicians grew up shooting. Besides, this is unacceptable as they perceive it as government invasion. They announced openly while in a security uniform working as a security guard. Never would politicians or the police succumb to these new policies. Such policies are only a strategy by the government limiting guns at the time of their death and denying their children to inherit. They disobediently refuse to obey his slogan, 'they are not taking our gun away' (Strain, 2010).
Politicians have offered their views about maintaining the safety of their home and family, still sustaining their friendly attitude as most of them are disapproved every point logically. However, their stand was firm. They had made a decision to hide their gun if the government attempted to knock at their doors. This had no difference with the case of street gangs who were in possession of guns regardless of the law. Arguments erupted because of differing positions, politicians on the media lies and me on the news then the reality that the constitution held as a document, which required change and growth and protection of the society it guarantees (Cook & Ludwig, 2007).
Simply because the purposes of the gun lobby are served best by persuading the owners, a part of the minority hate gun ownership. There cannot be a better reason for contributions of money to the gun lobby and addicted hatred for the proposals of gun law, whatever the apparent reason. Those in possession of guns are persuaded to...
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