On Tuesday, April 30, 2013. A very sad death happened in Kentucky. A 2-year-old cute girl named Caroline Sparks was killed by a bullet to the chest. She was shot by her 5-year-old brother Kristian Sparks with a gun marketed for children as “My First Rifle”.
The girl’s death shocked the local community of 1800 in south-central Kentucky. Everyone used to know the extended Sparks family, but now they are torn by grief. It used to be a happy family, but now they don’t know how to move` forward. The boy used to be a common boy who should have the same rights to grow up, but now he has to grow up knowing that he killed his sister. The girl used to be a cute girl, but now her life will stop at 2 years old forever!
The girl’s death shocked the local community of 1800 in south-central Kentucky. Everyone used to know the extended Sparks family, but now they are torn by grief. It used to be a happy family, but now they don’t know how to move` forward. The boy used to be a common boy who should have the same rights to grow up, but now he has to grow up knowing that he killed his sister. The girl used to be a cute girl, but now her life will stop at 2 years old forever!
Our society taught anyone it’s OK to have a gun, but we have seen millions of gun violence or accidents happened because of the lack of gun control. None of the gun lobbies will take the responsibility for this accident. The happiness of an innocent family was stopped by a gun. The happiness of a naive boy was stopped by a gun and the life of the cute innocent girl was stopped by a gun.
As we can see from the following chart, the annual deaths resulting from firearms keep increasing every year, which means that every year more and more lives die from guns. The population of the United States in 2011 is about 311.6 million. This means that about 10 out of 100,000 people die because of guns. This rate seems to be constant in the past 10 years. As the population increases, the deaths increases. Most of these lives are innocent and they all have their own happy family. How will the family move forward with a member died from a gun accidently?
As we can see from the following chart, the annual deaths resulting from firearms keep increasing every year, which means that every year more and more lives die from guns. The population of the United States in 2011 is about 311.6 million. This means that about 10 out of 100,000 people die because of guns. This rate seems to be constant in the past 10 years. As the population increases, the deaths increases. Most of these lives are innocent and they all have their own happy family. How will the family move forward with a member died from a gun accidently?
The United States has about five percent of the total world population but own about 42 percent of all the world's civilian-owned firearms. In 2009, according to the UNODC (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime), 60% of homicides in the United States were perpetrated using a firearm. As time pass by, more and more people died because of the lack of gun control. More and more families are encountering full of sorrow because their family members died from gun control. More and more children became orphans because of their parent’s death from the lack of gun control. Almost all accidental deaths and serious injuries are tragic, and we ought to strive to prevent as many as possible. So we have to make the gun ownership under control.