whtie privilege nra and mass shootings

Because white people will someday be the minority in the United States, we can expect white privilege to decline, increased gun control laws, and powerful groups like the NRA to lose their influence in the political theatre, when eventually we will all lose our guns due to factors that I will tell you about that later in this essay. What will cause us to lose our weapons, and what will diminish programs like the NRA? I think the ideal of white privilege can influence this greatly.

White privilege exists but that doesn’t mean I believe it is right. White privilege has been around ever since we came to America many years ago. Some of you may wonder, what is white privilege? White privilege is believed to be enforced when invisible assets or benefits are given to “white” colored people. This privilege has been around in American from the time the settlers came. It has been around ever since slavery was introduced in the America’s and it will always be around in certain parts of the U.S. for people that will never allow themselves to change. White privilege has been brought back up much more in the news in the last few years. It has been a very big issue in many police cases and jury trials and many more events where white people tend to be the enforcers. There are cases where an African American man gets accused of such a thing as rape and even if he never actually committed the crime, with white privilege, he found himself doing the time. Some men in this man’s situation are brought before a white judge with a white jury and they automatically see this as a lose, lose situation for themselves. Part of this sounds like racism but the white privilege part comes into effect if the man in this same situation is white they would give this man a much more fair trial and would possibly work harder to prove him innocent. Why is this so? Because the idea of whites being the superior race is still in our heads and as long as it is and whites continue to have power in the world this ideology will stick around.

Can white privilege be involved in mass shootings? Who commits mass shootings? Well one thing that seems to be a common characteristic of most mass murders are they are young white males. Does race play a factor in who commits most mass shootings? It obviously must because white males have predominately committed most of the mass shootings in the U.S. over its lifetime. All of these mass shooters though happen to percentage wise match up with their same percentage of the population they withhold in the United States. For example the white population takes up 63% of the U.S. and white males tend to take part in over 64% of the mass shootings in the U.S. alone each year. This proves that yes white males do tend to commit more of the mass shootings but if there were more African Americans in the U.S. or more Asian and Japanese in the U.S. would they be leading in most mass shootings committed. According to the study I found, that stated this, technically if the African American population was greater than that of the white population then African Americans would be the leading race in mass shootings in America. Another factor that has an effect on who conducts mass shootings is gender. How often do you here of a female murderer? Hardly ever, and when you do it usually catches you off guard. Some of the reasons men are more likely to conduct mass shootings is because men are more likely to own a fire arm. They are also more likely to keep their feeling sheltered up inside them. All these things seem to be much like what most people think about men. Men aren’t going to go out and tell everyone about what they are feeling inside and ask for help to get it fixed. Most of them will fight through it and try to tough it out no matter what it takes to get it done, and for some of them that means committing a mass shooting. These men have usually flown the cookoo nest and are no longer thinking strait. What makes them conduct these shootings? Most of the scientists and psychologists working on this matter immediately think insanity. When in reality most of them actually do have serious mental illnesses that can lead them to think this is the right thing to do to save them or help them get over whatever they are going through. Some of these people have had things earlier in their life influence whether or not they decide to do this. Some of them for example may gain hatred and anger from getting rape or beat as a kid. All this built up aggression can lead to the occurrence of a mass shooting. These entire factors can prove why it seems that most of these shooters tend to be young white males. It shows the different traits all of these young men have and is easily understandable why they have committed or had the idea of committing mass shootings.

When it comes down to who can stop mass shootings the matter is really hard. There are many reasons why, one is Americans need guns for many things like recreational shooting sports, and hunting. So why should we take guns away from the law abiding citizens who use guns in the right and proper ways. The fact of the matter is the types of people committing mass shootings are the type of people that who regardless whether or not you take guns away from all Americans will end up with a gun somehow anyway. These people don’t care that they would be doing something illegal by getting guns illegally when the reason they are getting the guns is their main objective. It all refers back to the old saying,” Guns don’t kill people. People kill people with guns.” This is something people need to think about when they say we need to ban guns from all Americans. The NRA promotes the proper use of guns for recreational purposes as well as hunting purposes and collecting purposes. They don’t promote gun violence in anyway and most of their true followers aren’t people that commit mass shootings anyway. The people that support and follow the NRA are the people that you don’t need to be worried about having guns. These people are the ones that understand how to use them and when to use them.

What can we learn about white privilege, mass shooters, and the NRA? We know that most mass shooters are white and we know that juries tend to take more of a pardon on white men. They tend to make sure to give them the fairest trial they can. So where does the NRA tie into all of this most of the enrolled members of the NRA are actually white. They all have a decent understanding of safety with weapons and they fully understand the intended purposes of these weapons. The NRA makes sure people understand weapons and how they should be used, so in this respect they do help out the world in some ways by teaching how to handle weapons but the only thing that could make it all better is if we could find a way to get everyone involved and teach everyone how to understand how powerful a weapon can be and how they themselves need to learn its safety instructions and its intended purpose.

Freddie Gray

I believe that society let him down. It all started back when his mother had gotten pregnant. Her blood was filled with lead and thus when he was born his blood had lead in it as well. As he grew older and continued being stuck in the horrible neighborhood he was forced to grow up in, he developed even more lead in his blood and this impaired his thinking abilities as well as physical functions. He had trouble focusing and paying attention and his reading and writing abilities were much lesser than of someone from other better neighborhoods. His whole life he was stuck in the dumps and he couldn’t get out.

Freddie was a nice and genuinely funny guy when it came to his personality. Even though he had trouble doing some everyday tasks for us; like reading and writing he still found a way to be cheery. But all the fun he had eventually got him in trouble. This kept getting him in trouble until for years until the one time he got in trouble and he couldn’t come back from it. Freddie had, had many different little harmless crimes over the years like drug possession and other little things of that nature. But one day he wasn’t even smoking weed or doing anything illegal but he got caught up in the wrong area at the wrong time and he ran from the police when they showed up. They then jostled him around a little bit and he ended up damaging his spinal cord and this later led to his death.

                Freddie was a well-liked man in the community that never left the place he was born and raised. I believe if Freddie would have been raised in a better neighborhood that maybe he would have had a fighting chance. When he is stuck in a place that attracts the scum of the earth it is hard to get out. He was just a product of bad habits that were all influenced by the community around him. It was hard for him to control but it was the place he had to be, because that is the place where all his problems began.

Deviance

I read an article that told about how multiple tattoos and piercings lead to more deviant acts. The idea behind it was that most of the people that get tattoos tend to be troublemakers in the first place. It said that if they had one or more they were looking for attention and they were trying to make a statement with their tattoos. It also stated that people with multiple tattoos, intimate piercings, or multiple piercings would also tend to spend more time in jail and would commit more crimes than those without these characteristics.

                I side with the article in some respects that it seems that statistically it shows that most convicted criminals may have these kinds of tattoos and piercings, but on the other hand that doesn’t mean that everyone that gets these body marks is automatically a bad person. For some of them it is a life choice and they like what it looks like and they enjoy having these marks. This being said it doesn’t mean that they are automatically criminals and deviants. When I see a person with tons of tattoos and piercings I may not think they look the most traditional and professional but that still doesn’t mean that they are bad people.

                I found in this article that It only states the bad things about people with tattoos and piercings and it wants people to think that if you have these body marks you are automatically a deviant. I believe this is wrong and they people that put this out there could spice up their information more and put things in about the percentage of people that aren’t deviants that have tattoos and piercings. Overall I found out that the media tends to judge people based more on appearance than actual values.