https://padlet.com/meganvsieloff95/sd1mkkdrxfuj Made with an open mind en-us 2020-01-16 00:32:04 UTC 2020-01-16 03:50:41 UTC hello@padlet.com meganvsieloff95 https://padlet.com/meganvsieloff95/sd1mkkdrxfuj/wish/432194821 According to NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness), a majority of the violent acts by people with mental illnesses are due to lack of needed mental health services. They also believe that although some violent acts are done by people with mental illnesses, a majority of them are done by people without them.]]> 2020-01-16 00:47:30 UTC https://padlet.com/meganvsieloff95/sd1mkkdrxfuj/wish/432194821 meganvsieloff95 https://padlet.com/meganvsieloff95/sd1mkkdrxfuj/wish/432197129 According to the Crime Prevention Research Center, "'gun free zones' have been the target of more than 98% of all mass shootings. This means that less than 2% of shootings happen in places that actually allow guns. ]]> 2020-01-16 00:56:25 UTC https://padlet.com/meganvsieloff95/sd1mkkdrxfuj/wish/432197129 meganvsieloff95 https://padlet.com/meganvsieloff95/sd1mkkdrxfuj/wish/432200877 According to the Washington Post, in the US there are 326 million people and 393 million guns. This means that there is 67 million more guns in the US than people. The population includes men, women AND children so it includes everyone not just a select amount of people in the US. ]]> 2020-01-16 01:11:03 UTC https://padlet.com/meganvsieloff95/sd1mkkdrxfuj/wish/432200877 meganvsieloff95 https://padlet.com/meganvsieloff95/sd1mkkdrxfuj/wish/432222962 According the New York Times, "Researchers have extensively studied whether there is a causal link between video games and violent behavior, and while there isn’t quite a consensus, there is broad agreement that no such link exists." This means that there is a correlation between violence and video games but violent video games don't directly cause shootings or violence with guns. ]]> 2020-01-16 02:35:28 UTC https://padlet.com/meganvsieloff95/sd1mkkdrxfuj/wish/432222962 meganvsieloff95 https://padlet.com/meganvsieloff95/sd1mkkdrxfuj/wish/432223885 According to this article, "There is a strong correlation between the loss of religion in the United States and increased mass shootings." In the same years that the amount of people practicing religion has gone down, the amount of severe mass shootings has gone up. ]]> 2020-01-16 02:39:40 UTC https://padlet.com/meganvsieloff95/sd1mkkdrxfuj/wish/432223885 meganvsieloff95 https://padlet.com/meganvsieloff95/sd1mkkdrxfuj/wish/432226899 According to news.gallop.com, "79% now say the spread of extremist views on the internet bears a great deal or fair amount of blame, up from 57% in 2013 -- a 22-percentage-point increase." People are blaming extremist views and extremists for mass shootings in the United States. ]]> 2020-01-16 02:53:34 UTC https://padlet.com/meganvsieloff95/sd1mkkdrxfuj/wish/432226899 meganvsieloff95 https://padlet.com/meganvsieloff95/sd1mkkdrxfuj/wish/432232854 I think that lack of morals and religion in society is the biggest cause of gun violence. This is because when someone has a lack of morals or religion in their life, they will do whatever they want to and have no guidelines that they live by. This is no physical thing that can be identified and taken care of, it is much bigger than that. Lack of morals and religion is a person's choice which you can't take away from them. ]]> 2020-01-16 03:22:37 UTC https://padlet.com/meganvsieloff95/sd1mkkdrxfuj/wish/432232854