Gun Violence i USA og Danmark

I have chosen this theme, because it’s a very exciting theme to tell about.

Whenever I hear the term “gun violence”, I immediately (immi-dia-t-li) think of crime, racism and murder. Guns have been in use for over a hundred years, and they have always been used in wars and by governments, along with thieves and gangs. However, not till recently (ri-sint-ly) have guns been used by normal people for self-defense or for “fun”. With these recent developments (di-ve-lop-ments), gun violence has increased drastically (dras-tic-li) that in some countries, fatalities (fa-ta-li-tis) from gun violence have reached four digit (di-Git) numbers. General violence is always associated (aso-shi-ated) with racism, crimes and murders. There are many examples about violence and crime, and there are a lot of statistics (sta-tis-tiks) that relate gun violence to murders and crimes.

The movie “Bowling for Columbine” and the text “The Fastest Runner on Sixty-First Street” remind me of three things, violence, racism and crime in Denmark, because both subjects are telling about it.

Another example I heard on the news is when 3 Danish boys, who were 15, 16 and 19 years old, killed a 15 years old Turkish (tør-kish) boy in Amager. It was Wednesday and it all started with the Turkish boy Denis Uzun handing out some newspapers and commercials (com-mer-shils), when the three Danish boys drove by him and asked him what he was looking at. Denis said that he was looking at them before one of the boys took a bat and starting beating him up. Denis’s head was severely (se-vir-li) damaged, and there was nothing anyone could do for him, so he died later in Rigshospitalet that day. I think that the problem is that murder and racism in the Danish society (so-ca-ii-ti) and in the whole world is growing drastically (dras-tiK-li), which in turn causes a lot of gun violence.