Top 5 World Problems

Ranking order from 'most serious' to 'least serious'

1. Poverty
2. Terrorism
3. S. Korea vs N. Korea
4. Mass Shootings
5. Income inequality

Ranking order for Solutions. 

1. Mass Shootings
2. Poverty
3. Income Inequality 
4. S. Korea vs N. Korea
5. Terrorism

Why did you select your "top problem" out of the list of five?
 
The reason I chose poverty as my "top problem" is because its an issue that stunned me the most when doing the research for the problems and solutions assignment. Just in the USA alone, 46.2 million Americans currently live in poverty and a lot of them are children and young adults. I also find it amazing how we choose to allocate our funding to things that aren't top priority. In my opinion, this comes first. There is no reason children in America should starve day in and day out.

  Out of the 5 I listed, I felt like this is an issue that most people aren't aware of and its something people really need to look into and look at the numbers and try to get involved. Myself included.



http://www.povertyusa.org/our-mission/


What leads you to believe that your "top solution" is really the most implementable? I chose shootings as my top most implementable solution. The reasoning behind my choice is due to the fact that if we take extreme measures on to trying to stop most of it, we can. I feel like we can. It just costs a lot money and involves going a direction a lot of people will oppose. For example, guns in South Korea are banned. South Korea doesn't have shootings. When it does, it only happens on military bases where someone goes nuts. I'm not saying we need to ban guns now... All I'm saying is increasing security, LONG and thorough security checks, banning certain type of guns to the public, and having a movement as a group, can help stop the shootings. I found this quote from a Korean blog that wrote on gun control that I agree with.

"Obviously, getting America's gun regulation to Korea's level would be a difficult task, because Korea's history has no element like America's historical relationship with guns. But know this: when gun advocates say something like "Psychopaths will find a way to kill with or without guns", they are blatantly lying. Despite filled with people with famously fiery temper, Korea has never suffered a mass murder like the ones happened in Columbine or Virginia Tech, in which civilians were able to kill scores of people with legally obtained guns."