Pros And Cons Of Open Carry Gun Law

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Do you oppose or agree with the “Open Carry Gun Law”? In my opinion I would have to say, I disagree with this law that has been passed for multiple reasons. In the view of the whole vision of what this law could actually bring, such as more problems in day to day life or situations of tragedy. This law will affect people of the present and the future with this decision by the government. The law is only allow in certain part of Texas, which good but could be better but not allowing it period. In relation of the case with Dylann Roof who murdered nine members of the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. They believe he prayed and sat with them before the massacre …show more content…
So after school he did take it home and went in his room and put it in his bottom drawer wrapped up in a t-shirt. But Michael has a little sister Ranae, see she asked Michael too wear his Nike shirt that’s in his bottom drawer but Michael told her no. Then after Michael left to go outside talk to his friends, Ranae decides to be rebellious and go get the shirt out of his drawer, after she starts to ramble through his clothes looking for that Nike shirt. She hit something solid and out of her curiosity she picks it up and undrapes it and saw it was a gun and she never seen one up close before, so she starts to play around with it as if she was pulling the trigger, making noise as she plays “bang, bang, bang, bang!!” Unfortunately, while playing she takes the safety off unknowingly and doesn’t know the gun it loaded, she was playing so frivolously she almost trips and in the same instance Ranae dropped the gun, sadly the gun fired and shot her under the chin and enter her brain. In the few minutes her brother and his friends rushed into the house too see where the noise came from, it was too late as they stumble upon Ranae, laying on the floor dead with the gun next to her feet, she was only 8, and was just curious about the gun, but instead the guns curiosity took another young child’s

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