For the longest time, Americans have experienced extreme pain through lack of control of what is available for public consumers. Especially in recent news, events have narrowed in on school shootings. Just within the four months of 2018, there have been almost twenty school shootings. I am sure that you are aware of these statistics, but as a current high school student, it is extremely frightening to have to attend school knowing that anyone, anywhere, can own a firearm, enter, and openfire.
In spite of the recent atrocities, there has been no noticeable change to control who can own firearms. Currently in my english class, we just finished reading A Tale of Two Cities and I got to see the results of not controlling and allowing conditions to progressively worsen in the mid 1700s: the French Revolution. The second amendment states that “[a] well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear …show more content…
My opinion, is that the only thing required for owning guns is a license, should be changed. Eliminating guns from all homes everywhere in America is unreasonable because at this point in time, there are enough guns for everyone, including newborns, to own one. Guns are also a huge income of money, but so are drugs, and a majority of addictive drugs are banned unless, they are smuggled in or illegally sold. Drug overdosing, or death from drugs, is almost always self inflicted, but a gun can kill as many as the holder wants, as long as they have ammunition. With this information, I strongly believe there should be more restrictions on who can own a firearm. I support protecting yourself from a perpetrator by means of a weapon, but the rate at which people are misusing guns, is out of hand. Britain’s Parliament has changed their gun laws since they noticed an apparent connection between homicides and increased guns
In spite of the recent atrocities, there has been no noticeable change to control who can own firearms. Currently in my english class, we just finished reading A Tale of Two Cities and I got to see the results of not controlling and allowing conditions to progressively worsen in the mid 1700s: the French Revolution. The second amendment states that “[a] well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear …show more content…
My opinion, is that the only thing required for owning guns is a license, should be changed. Eliminating guns from all homes everywhere in America is unreasonable because at this point in time, there are enough guns for everyone, including newborns, to own one. Guns are also a huge income of money, but so are drugs, and a majority of addictive drugs are banned unless, they are smuggled in or illegally sold. Drug overdosing, or death from drugs, is almost always self inflicted, but a gun can kill as many as the holder wants, as long as they have ammunition. With this information, I strongly believe there should be more restrictions on who can own a firearm. I support protecting yourself from a perpetrator by means of a weapon, but the rate at which people are misusing guns, is out of hand. Britain’s Parliament has changed their gun laws since they noticed an apparent connection between homicides and increased guns