The Mission of Why Our Children Carry Guns.com
A National Public Health Emergency Campaign geared towards ending
Urban Gun Violence. In order to achieve this goal, there must be long tern and short-term goals that will ultimately bring the program closer to better addressing the ills that precipitate the negative and inappropriate behaviors associated with Urban Violence among youth. It is understood that this program alone will not eradicate violence among youth in the Inner City. However, this program is designed to make significant gains in reducing violence among youth and if additional necessary components are activated, the progress of reducing violence can be sustained.
Inner City Violence initially was attributed to the social and political struggles from the 1940’s, 1950’s, and 1960’s – part of the Social-Revolution. However, following the end of the Civil Rights Movement and the war in Vietnam, violence in the Inner Cities were relegated to social inequalities largely rooted in economic disparity. In the1980’s, Urban Violence soon took a direct turn towards what would soon be known as “Black on Black Crime.” And like many other social dilemmas in American Society, it would soon become one of the top causes of death among young Black males living in the Inner City/Urban Areas.
It is now 24 years later and not much has changed since1985 when sociologist forecasted the life expectancy of Black males who reside in the Urban Sectors was at 25 years of age. In 2006, with the sharp increase in gun violence among the teenage population, death by firearm has become the leading cause of death for Black males ages 15-19 years of age and the second leading cause of death for American Youth (American Pediatrics). The incidents of Urban Violence in America are so frequent that the rates of incidents far exceeds International Crime Statistics. Of the many social dilemmas in our current day American Society, violence in our Urban Sectors particularly as it relates to the population of American Children, Teens and Young Adults has earned the position as the number one issue facing the Social, Political, Educational, Spiritual, and Economical development of the Future of America.
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