Guns Don’t Kill People. People Kill People.
The Fight For and Against Gun Control.
April 16th, 2007,
Seung-Hui Cho kills 32 people in the Virginia Teach massacre. December 14th,
2012, Adam Lanza opens fire in Sandy Hook Elementary in Newton, Connecticut,
killing 20 kids and six adults. July 20th, 2012 James E. Holmes
opens fire in a midnight screening of Batman: The Dark Knight Rises, killing
twelve and wounding even more. These few
shootings pulled from CNN were only a few shootings that have rocked history.
All of these massacres and many more were caused by people with emotional
problems, allowing themselves to kill and wound so many, before taking their
own lives. All of these violent acts against humanity were committed by using weapons
like AR-15s and the Bushmaster XM15-E2S rifle, all known as automatic and
semi-automatic guns. Since then, Congress has been arguing if they should ban
guns all together, give background checks, never let any criminal or mentally
challenged person own a gun, or even just ban certain guns. Laws against guns
and gun control have been issued before, but with all of these new massacres,
they are putting the regulations back on the table and trying to see what would
be more effective. All of these questions have been around the bend a few times
and yet we have not come up with a plan. Most of the laws we try just don’t
work anymore.
When we think of guns, we think of every violent
massacre that has happened in the past years. From Sandy Hook, to Columbine,
and many others that have been recent or from the past. Each of these violent
crimes had been caused by guns being in the wrong hands. However, having guns
in the wrong hands shouldn’t make everyone a criminal. Those who own guns in
the civil way and don’t use them against anyone shouldn’t be victimized and
made public enemy number one just because of some people who decided to use it
for their own evil doing.
There are people for gun control,
whether it’s banning certain guns, or providing back ground checks, or any
other possibility to keep guns out the wrong hands. Then, there are people
against gun control, who want to be able to keep their guns without being seen
as an enemy. There are also the people who don’t know what’s better or what’s
right. Gun control has been evident in the past few years as the massacres keep
piling up. From the simple altercations, to protection, to the massacres of
innocent victims, gun control is always out there, just waiting or a new string
of control or when it will finally be over. There are other serious issues going on right
now, and gun control is in the mixture of all of these.
We have to be able to figure
something out with gun control that will be alright with both sides of the
issue. Something that will work and make everyone, not just one side, happy.
Gun control has two sides, but we need to be able to mix the two sides together
and make both sides work, so we can make everyone agree instead of causing
another nationwide problem.
