Essay On Mass Shooting

Following recent events (involving multiple mass shootings and attacks) many people think that the laws on guns in the United States of America need to be much tighter. I am one of these people. At the moment, as soon as you cross the US border, you have the legal right to purchase yourself a fire arm for personal protection, sport and (apparently, in some unfortunate cases) carrying out an unreasoned mass shooting. This document serves to explain some of the holes in the American legal system. While my foremost problem is not with guns themselves, it is a fact that they are, in the first place, an inherent danger and owning them, in the first instance, causes more trouble than they’re worth.

The majority of gun owners will tell you that they own a gun for personal protection. Protection from what? Stray lions? The delays of public transport? Things that go bump in the night? No, what they mean …show more content…
Perhaps I am being crass, but wouldn’t the majority of American citizens prefer it if their family and friends were not being shot by a psychotic killer who’s upset that his mother didn’t bring his breakfast into his room this morning? I didn’t think so.

On balance, the majority of the evidence leads to supporting the fact that gun laws in America need to be made tighter: I mean if Barack Obama has said so himself, then it can only be the right and logical thing to do. However, I am not expecting this to happen today, perhaps not even in the next five years or so, but at some point people will realise the extreme danger they are putting themselves and the people around them in by owning guns. We can now see that a change in the law is somewhat