Gun Control: A hot and controversial topic today.
I believe that we should have gun
control in moderation. We don’t want
crazy psychopaths running around with guns killing people, but we also can’t
take away guns from everybody because the right to bear arms is one of our
constitutional rights. Guns are highly
dangerous and potentially deadly weapons, of course there needs to be some kind
of restrictions on them.
The kind of restrictions that need
to be placed should be similar to the Texas
concealed handgun training. You would
learn how to use a gun safely, and a background check would be run to see if
you’re trustworthy of owning one or not.
This will not catch all of the criminals, but hopefully it will reduce
accidents because of the training. It would be similar to how we do not give the
right to vote to everybody.
On the other hand, we also can’t
limit ownership too much. If we prevent
guns from being bought at all, people will protest. That is a violation of the second amendment
rights, the Supreme Court should not let it pass, even if it did get past Congress.
Unfortunately, sometimes you can’t
prevent people that you don’t want to have guns from getting guns. Sometimes, people will even seem just fine,
and yet they still end up being psychopaths.
We have no good way of identifying who is a psychopath. Even if they are, we don’t know if they will
kill somebody or not. The Connecticut school
shooting is a good example of a murderer blending in. Adam Lanza was able to pass normally and then
snapped. He was reported to be “falling deeper into a bizarre mindset” according to this USA Today article (Adam Lanza's mom was alarmed by his gruesome images). He had been
diagnosed with asperger’s syndrome, and recoiled from human touch. He was diagnosed with not being entirely
normal, but was able to function in society.
Unfortunately, something set him off, and he had access to guns.
