Is Faulty Gun Laws the Primary Cause of Mass Shooting ?

Running head: GUN LAWS, MASS SHOOTINGS AND MENTAL ILLNESS
Are faulty gun laws the primary cause of mass shooting or mental illness in United States?
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GUN LAWS, MASS SHOOTINGS AND MENTAL ILLNESS 2
Abstract
Over the years, mental illness has been attributed to the crowd assassination in the United
States. Psychologist attributes the behaviors to the mental instability and emotional fluctuation;
however, both the public and the legal system perceive that association of crowd gunfire with
mental illness is persevered and unfound. The main cause of crowd assassination according to
the paper thus is the unstrictness of the gun ownership that allows all even the mentally to own
the fire mars. To address the issue of crowd gunfire, the following recommendations should be
enhanced along with the state gun regulations; Redefinition of the existing mental health firearm
disqualification criteria, Expansions on the firearm rights restrictions, and public mental health
education.

GUN LAWS, MASS SHOOTINGS AND MENTAL ILLNESS 3
Are faulty gun laws the primary cause of mass shooting or mental illness in the United States?
Introduction
During the past decades, crowd gunfire events have been popular in the United States and
other parts of the world. While other cold killings grasp little interest from the people, crowd
gunfire incidents are tremendously noticeable as a result of little influence from the
policymaking that is reluctant to address the gun laws. Crowd assassinations can be defined as
the intentional killing of more than three people in one location. Just like when the recent pair of
crowd assassinations on Americans on a single weekend, President Donald Trump, while
addressing the public through the twitter account blamed mental illness and not the gun (Philpott,
2018). However, numerous psychiatrists have always blamed such incidence to mental illness.
The influence of insanity on irresponsible gun usage is rejected by law and justice system
even though the two fields interact and associate in numerous criminal cases. According to
studies, 60% of the crowd assassination perpetrators in the United States had been diagnosed by
different symptoms of mental illness such as depressions, delusions, and paranoia before such
committing such crimes. Therefore, it is undeniable that people with such symptoms should be
denied access to the gun that could cause to their own or other people’s harm. Such
contradictions thus pose different questions on ether the crowd assassinations are a result of the
faulty gun law or insanity in the United States. Mental illness represents a small percentage of
the cause of crowd assassinations, but the thirteen amendments make it typically easy to acquire
a gun.
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