Gun Control

Gun related violence is a real sore spot for most Americans for a good reason. For example, on April 20, 1999, two deranged students went to their school, Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, and killed 12 students and one faculty member. Another example was in 2012 on December 12th, when a mentally ill man open fired on Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut killing 27 innocent bystanders before taking his own life. These tragedies raise serious questions about how strict America is regarding gun control. However, question that should be asked is: if one bystander would have been properly trained and armed, could this incident have been avoided? Although this response may come as a surprise to most, the answer to the previous question is: yes.
Despite popular belief and what the Liberal Media wants America to believe, gun related violence in steadily decreasing across the nation. Yes, there are more news stories about people killing numerous people at once, but for as many times as that happens a properly armed civilian prevents an attack from occurring. This extreme opposition to guns in America can be seen through an article written by Monica Bauer in the Huffington Post. To start the article, Bauer talks about a particular instance when an African American male was killed during an argument at a gas station about the level he was playing his music. Bauer continuously returns to the conclusion that carrying guns leads to an “occasion of sin.” Her proposition is that if guns were completed eliminated from the equation, that less people would be killed. In writing, that sounds great, but the problem with this particular argument is that criminals are not particularly known for obeying laws, especially ...

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Instances such as the shootings at Sand Hook Elementary and Columbine High School cause numerous important questions to arise, but solutions cannot seem to be found. While one side of the spectrum believes that more guns would solve the problem, the other side believes that no guns would solve the issue. However, it seems as if a happy medium of both solutions could just as effectively solve the issue of mass shootings. With all that being said, properly training and equipping citizens with guns is definitely a solution to the problem. If bystanders could disarm the shooter before police arrive, that would result in fewer deaths in the end. Therefore, instead of controlling the sale of firearms, controlling who can buy firearms is a solution to gun related violence. Unfortunately, it seems as if the only response to violence is by the use of more violence