The War on Guns

The Gun Did It On Its Own? How?

Asthe Second Amendment allows people the right to bear arms for self-defense anda form to resist oppression, it also opens up a window for easy killings. There have been many incidents like the Columbine shooting and the recent Sandy Hook that have taken many innocent lives; people who didn’t have to die. But both incidents were done by men who seemed to have mental issues and would often go see a psychiatrist—people who shouldn’t be carrying guns, not even purchasing them. These people are the ones who abuse this amendment and have them stored maliciously.   

Then we have majority of the people who buy them sanely and use them as the Second Amendment says. Should incidents like this stop everyone from owning guns and having them as means of security? Families and people who carry guns legally—a license to purchase and registered to the police— and who feel that there home is a lot safer with a gun should be allowed the right. They have it stored away and only used when they really need to.

But there are cases where accidents while holding a gun do happen. Someone is holding a gun, showing off to their friends and it goes off on its own, like it has happened before. Then in this case, who’s fault is it? The gun or the person? But the gun wasn’t bought to kill that person and that person didn’t mean to use it on themself. Now cases like these are the ones that complicate the gun control controversy even more because who do we blame in this type of accident. Many will say the gun but the person shouldn’t have been handling it for any apparent reason.

People often say that guns should be banned as a whole, but there still are going to be those people with wrong intentions. We often see hear cases of knives being used to stab people and they aren’t trying to be banned yet.  But if we were to ban guns, other forms of violence like knives are going to be seen more often and pretty soon they’re going to have to be banned too.  

In order to purchase a gun, there should be laws in place in every state that require the gun buyers’ medical records to make sure they don’t have a history of violence and/or mental issues, a form of license/permit to buy, and should have to register the gun with the police. It’s clear that it isn’t the weapon itself, but also the person who is handling it that should be at fault too. But where do we go from there?