Juliana+Suriel,+Annual+Project

===Gun violence happens every where but, why has gun violence among gangs increased in modern times ? Gun violence among gangs increased in modern times because of automatic weapons, guns to fight instead of fists, and increase in turf wars.===

===In the United States more people are killed because now people use [|automatic weapons, like AK-47 and AK-15],before they would use single shot revolvers and those type of weapons would hurt someone but not actually kill them. Another reason more people are killed its because more people have access to guns. Ex: [|K-mart] you can buy a gun the only think you need is ID, they give you a gun, and your already licensed to have one you don't have to be cop or nothing. Lastly because these automatic weapons there's a lot of youth violence.===

===Most people use guns to fight instead of fists. Fire arms also caused more deaths thank fist fight.[|Handguns were used nearly 83 % of homocides in 2000 bacause of gang related.]=== ===[|Gang-related gun crime that has rocked Birmingham is the most serious seen since the New Year party murders more than five years ago, police said recently. Detectives believe five separate shootings that have left one dead and four injured since July are gang-related]===

===The increase in Turf wars, gangs fight because simply from diffrent neighboorhoods gangs like Latin king, bloods, crips, etc. also gangs would dip into middle school for new recruits[|.They found that in Los Angeles and Oklahoma City, almost a fourth of gang killings happened in a drive-up shootings. In all five cities, Los Angeles, Long Beach and Oakland, California; Oklahoma City; and Newark, New Jersey, more than 90 % of the murders had to do with firearms, and the murders were more likely to happen in public than non-gang deaths.]===

Gun violence highly increased since the 1990's. think they should not sell guns in stores like k-mart,etc. Gun violence has incre