Imagine being at work, school, church, the mall, the club, the movie theaters, or even in your own home and being afraid, now stop imagining, did anything change? No, because this is real life, this the real world, the world that we live in today. While The Second Amendment is used to protect Americans and their right to bear arms, It makes you think are our liberal gun laws, worth the ramifications on the wellbeing of society. A mass shooting means that 4 or more people were shot in one place so these statistics do not include the occasions where people were only injured or less than 4 people were killed. There has been 436 people killed in mass shootings, 435 injured from July 18, 1984 to June 12, 2016 (LA times). In my own field research,
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Some believe that the AR-15 is suitable for home defense when in reality it’s not, the AR-15 is known to be an over powering weapon, the rounds can over penetrate not only endangering your family but your neighbors as well. The New York daily times calls it “a mass murderer’s best friend”, and in all honesty it is. On December 14, 2012, 20 students and 6 adults were killed at sandy hook elementary by Adam Lanza, On July 20, 2012, 12 people were killed while 70 others were injured at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado by James Eagan Holmes, On December 2, 2015, 14 people were killed and 22 were injured in an office during a holiday event in San Bernardino California by Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, the common factor in all these mass shootings is all of the perpetrators used the AR-15 to carry out their senseless crime (Gregorian). In my field research where I interviewed both FIU staff and students, when asked the question “Do you believe civilians should have access to military style weapons?” 100% of the people interviewed said No. This is a weapon of war, not something that should be used and made available to civilians everywhere for the sake of “freely exercising their second amendment rights”, because this is not what our founding fathers had in mind when they wrote it. “The boundaries of the Second Amendment do not coincide with the boundaries of gun control.”(
Some believe that the AR-15 is suitable for home defense when in reality it’s not, the AR-15 is known to be an over powering weapon, the rounds can over penetrate not only endangering your family but your neighbors as well. The New York daily times calls it “a mass murderer’s best friend”, and in all honesty it is. On December 14, 2012, 20 students and 6 adults were killed at sandy hook elementary by Adam Lanza, On July 20, 2012, 12 people were killed while 70 others were injured at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado by James Eagan Holmes, On December 2, 2015, 14 people were killed and 22 were injured in an office during a holiday event in San Bernardino California by Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, the common factor in all these mass shootings is all of the perpetrators used the AR-15 to carry out their senseless crime (Gregorian). In my field research where I interviewed both FIU staff and students, when asked the question “Do you believe civilians should have access to military style weapons?” 100% of the people interviewed said No. This is a weapon of war, not something that should be used and made available to civilians everywhere for the sake of “freely exercising their second amendment rights”, because this is not what our founding fathers had in mind when they wrote it. “The boundaries of the Second Amendment do not coincide with the boundaries of gun control.”(