The Issues of Gun Violence and Animal Cruelty in America and how to Solve them

My name is Reid, and I go to Grace Church School. I am writing to you on the matters of stopping animal cruelty and gun violence. The number of deaths from shootings has risen dramatically over the past few years. Animal cruelty is still a problem in the United States. In four states the animal cruelty punishments apply only if the offender is accused more than once. This has to change. We need to stop the problems of gun violence and animal cruelty before they get even worse.

Gun violence in the U.S.A. is on the rise. A study shown in 2012 shows that an assault in the US is triple as likely to involve guns as other countries such as Canada, Spain, and the UK. Every day 96 Americans are killed by guns, and many more are harmed. Grace Church School has had a firsthand experience from gun violence, a teacher was killed in a shooting at the high school. There should be stricter laws on the right to bear arms. Some examples could be: Checking history for signs of depression, not giving guns to those who are mentally unstable, raising the gun age from 18 to 21, a restriction on gun magazines that are too big. The last one not directly stop an attack, but would reduce the fatalities in the case of attack. I ask you to consider these. Gun violence is a major issue in America.

Another major issue in this country is animal abuse. The states (Ohio, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, and Iowa) have laws that only punish subsequent offenders. Another issue is dog fighting. It is illegal, and rightfully so, but there are some problems in the laws. In Hawaii and Montana there is no punishment to be a spectator. Without spectators the people that dog fight would go bankrupt thus, ending dog fighting. We need to fix the laws in Ohio, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, and Iowa to target first time offenders, and we also need to change the laws in Montana and Hawaii to make watching a dog fight illegal.

Gun violence and animal cruelty are two important issues that this country should tackle. To prevent gun violence, taking new safety measures on who receives guns would be helpful, as would keep a limit on the magazine size. Animal cruelty can be prevented by all states convicting an offender regardless of if it his or her first time, and by banning the watch of dog fights. Animal cruelty and gun violence are tearing the world apart, but you have the power to put it back together.

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