Children often grow up to have big dreams, yet they all be crumbled by the tragic events of a school shooting in seconds. This all gets ruined by one thing in their environment such as gun violence and gun violence may lead to death. This violence can destroy a kid's mindset and mold them to be someone different from what they were raised to be. While gun laws over gun control have been changing, they are still causing multiple problems for individuals such as children, and causing mental health issues for them in the future. Tragically, a lot of children’s environments cause them to grow up with mental health issues, which may lead them to gun violence. When children have to live in poor neighborhoods, they are more likely to have mental health …show more content…
These important impacts could be any kind of crime. Most crimes that are done are mostly done by the mentally ill. The mentally ill are not very stable in their environment so they do things that they think could make it better but then end up homeless. For example “In many places, police, judges and elected officials increasingly are pointing out that a high proportion of people in jail are mentally ill, and that in many cases they shouldn't be there”(Micheal). The police and judges feel that the mentally ill should have a place where they should go when they have done a crime. Rather than having the mentally ill go to jail. This is the reason why people with mental health issues are more probable to cause gun …show more content…
is the country with the highest amount of gun violence and most of it is caused by the mentally ill. Gun violence prevention policies that focus solely on mental health diagnoses will not stop gun violence. Instead, these policies fuel prejudice and fear around people living with mental illness and could lead to people avoiding mental health services. Most of these services are for children that experience the death of a friend or a family member. New Pediatrics article reports. “Among all high-income countries, the US accounts for 91 percent of firearms deaths for children up to age 14, a new Pediatrics article reports” (Michael B). This is a very big topic and most kids end up getting this from their environment and it mentally messes up a kid. This is why most of the U.S. has people with mentally ill problems, it's because they have a bad past and it causes them to have a mental disorder which ends up causing more mentally ill