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Locations and forms of power :

Topic : Gun violence and gun control in the USA

Possible Questions : Why doesn’t the American government change gun laws ?

STEP 1 :

A)

I’m going to talk about the notion of Locations and forms of power.

To illustrate this notion, I've chosen to talk about the topic of gun in the USA.

The question of this sequence will be to ask why the American government doesn’t make change gun laws?

B)

First, I will present the situation regarding gun violence in the US (A black man in the fifteen to thirty age bracket is twenty times more likely to be killed. This is one of the witnesses on gun violence in the United States), then I’ll explain why it is difficult for the government to change gun laws and finally say what the solution could be to stop these tragedies.

STEP 2:

I) Gun violence in American: facts and figures

• We started by studying an article raising a burning and topical issue: the problem of gun culture and gun control in the USA.
• The article starts with a concrete example : The Jonesboro tragedy, two boys, aged eleven  and thirteen fired twenty two shots, killing four children and their teacher and wounded ten other people, mostly children.
• This sort of tragedy is not unusual in the US, school shootings and mass killings happen regularly in the US for example: The columbine in one thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine with fifteen deaths.
• Although the US has the highest level of gun violence in the industrialized world, firearms have killed more Americans than all US wars. Not a lot of elementary schools have metal detectors because of the circulation of so many guns. There is between two hundred seventy and three hundred ten million of gun owned by civilians in the US.

The solution be to tighten gun laws.

II) So why is this not happening

The question is, why is it difficult for to government to tighten gun laws, American people’s attachment to guns dates back to pioneer times when everyone had the right to own a weapon because they needed one, the right to bear arms is guaranteed by the constitution and people are very much attached to this right, as they think it’s their responsibility to protect themselves and their family.

There is the NRA (short for national Rifle Association) and it is a very powerful gun lobby group in the US. They put of lot pressure on the government to prevent them from passing stricter gun control laws.

III ) Possible solution

But there are possible solutions: the first one is, changing mentalities instead of changing gun laws with anti-guns campaigns; for example the video of guns with history, a fake gun shop was opened in the NYC with hundreds of gun for sale, but these gun are second hand and they were used to kill people, either accidentally or intentionally or and it was meant to change the public opinion’s, but can they really change it?

There are others possibilities, for example, the arming teachers, there is an armed and trained response teacher in schools to protect children, although the president of the USA, Trump supports arming teachers with guns and says that they could prevent school massacres. Can they really stop school shooting?

STEP 3

In my opinion, the government of the USA should really stricter gun laws, 70% of Americans adults are for stricter laws, we can see that Americans wants to improve their country and make it safer less guns and less murders. An article on the US news, there were a murder at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, and it shocked everyone. We can say that the USA has not yet solved the huge problem of gun control but they start to react, more than three million Americans have stood up to fight for a future free from gun violence and it's working, there is also a campaign called "Demand a Plan " of every town for gun safety and it's to prevent gun violence and save lives. More than 5 million have joined the movement. As I said, things are changing and getting better but it's still far form being solved.

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