Guns… Nearly every day someone in America dies from guns. Why do they still allow this?
Mass shootings and massacres in America have been going on for year and years now. Currently, in the 21st Century, Americans have allowed 212 mass shootings to happen at their schools causing more than 260 deaths and hundreds of injuries. Imagine going through this as a person, it would be traumatizing and it would scar you for life. Would you want guns to be legal if you, one of your friends or a family member was caught up in a mass shooting or killed from mass shootings? No… so think and take action to stop this issue!
School shootings, Did you know that most mass shooting occurs in schools?
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It was October 1st, 2017 at the Route 91 Harvest Festival when Stephen Craig Paddock (the shooter) on the 32nd Floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel he shot down at 22,000 people with his more than 10 rifles that he had stored in his room. Sadly 58 people were killed in this attack and around 515 people were severely injured. Now if guns were illegal in America this event wouldn’t be possible and It might have never taken place and hundreds of families and people wouldn’t be affected by this incident. If guns weren’t legal in the US than Stephen Craig Paddock (the shooter) would have never gotten hold of those riffles and shot down at 22,000 people. Again America you could have stopped this! You think you would have learned from the number of other massacres that happened before this and the number of school shootings that took place. You think you would have learnt that guns kill and they are a harm to everyone in this community, this country, this land that 325.7 million people live in. Lives are being taken day by day because of guns. At the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, the security guard (Omar Mateen) Shot and killed 49 people and injured 53 more. It's time to stop and reflect and …show more content…
In school shootings, the ages are around 5-20 years old that is around our age category. Imagine if that was you or your cousin or friend, son, daughter, mum or dad! Firstly your accepting guns in this country until it affects you and then you see the picture. We don’t want that to be the case, you need to see that American citizens are dying because of guns thousands even millions of people are mentally and physically disabled/ ill. Those numbers will continue to grow if we don’t do something soon! Hundreds and thousands, millions of people are voting for NO GUNS but we still allow them again and again! The shooters will never learn if we don’t stop if we don’t act