I have never been a big
fan of guns not because I am for or against gun control but because I have no
real desire to use a gun. There are no
guns in my house and I didn’t grow up around guns either. Most days you can turn on the TV and hear
about a shoot-out or an accidental shooting.
I am frankly most surprised by the number of accidental shootings that
involve children. With all the safety
that is involved with owning a gun AKA going through classes to actually
understand the power of a gun you would think that these deaths would decrease.
Wanting to be safe in your own home is a big desire to keep
a gun in your house however you need to know how to use it, where to keep it
and how to disarm someone who gets control of your gun. I fired a gun a total of three times in my
life. One was a musket black powder gun
(made for right handed people and I am a leftie), and two were 9mm. I was
scared to use those guns or to even pick them up. My hands were sweaty and shook when I held
it. Pulling the trigger though was a
completely different experience. It gave
me a whole new respect for guns. Guns
are like a very complicated math problem.
It is not enough to know how to solve the problem you should understand
why you are solving it.
The text talked about different ways for gun control and
made some great arguments for and against guns.
Would making owning a gun better?
What about more rules in place for having a gun….tougher gun laws? In the article I found online they seemed to
think that more gun laws equated to fewer deaths but on the other side of this
there were some states that only had a few gun laws and the death toll was
still low. Will making gun laws tougher really
lower the death toll? What about taking
guns away from everyone and only letting the police or military carry weapons?
I don’t think taking guns away is going to stop crimes
from happening nor will it keep people from getting killed. Cars are not designed to kill they are
designed to get us from one place to another safely, yet people are killed by
cars everyday either by drunk drivers, distracted drivers or accidents so
should we ban all cars so that our chances of being killed by a car
decreases? No we find ways to improve
the car to make it better, safer for everyone.
Perhaps the same thing should be done for guns. Let’s improve gun safety instead finding ways
to make guns more violent (why do we need bullets that can penetrate a
vest). Why do we need A-K 47 to go
hunting? Maybe we need to start looking
at the types of guns that are available and decide what why we need them and
how available they should be. You have
cases like the Zimmerman/Martin case. If
there was not a gun involved would Martin still be alive? Perhaps but maybe he would have still died at
the hands of Zimmerman or the other way around Martin could have killed
Zimmerman by slamming his head into the concrete or been choked to death.
Banning guns is not going to lower the death tolls
quickly but maybe over time it would but humans are crafty and we would come up
with others ways to defend ourselves against those who would do us harm. Making guns safer and taking some of the more
dangerous guns and making them harder to get could make a difference. http://news.yahoo.com/more-gun-laws-fewer-deaths-50-state-study-224508338.html
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