People
kill people, people also kill animals. People use guns to kill, guns aren’t the
only thing that kill people. Knives, fire, poison, and even vending machines.
The thought of outlawing guns because they “kill people” is foolish, if you use
that principle then it’s like saying you think scorpions tails should be
outlawed. The tail did it not the scorpion, he had no intention at all of
stinging me it was all his tail. If I laid a gun on the table and told it to go
kill someone do you know what it would do? Nothing, because guns don’t kill
people, people kill people.
In 1996,
a gunman killed 35 people and wounded 18 more in Port Arthur, Australia. Twelve
days after the massacre Australia banned guns and instigated a buy back. More
than 1/3 of Australia’s guns were handed back into the government and it was
found that about 90% of Australians approved of their stricter gun laws. This
means that the Australian government said “No more guns”. The Australian people
said “O.K. alright seems fair mate.” Mass shootings happen in the United States
and the government says “Maybe we just ban the really big guns”. Half of
Americans said “Alright, yeah seems fair.” And the other 50% went “screw you
don’t take my guns!” Now I don’t necessarily believe we need a complete ban on
guns but I do believe that sale laws need to be restricted to sporting fire
arms and self-defense weapons. There is no need for assault weapons. One thing that does bother me is these people
that run around saying you can’t take my guns it’s my second amendment right,
which is true, but then they turn around and say they believe we need to
demilitarize the police force. Seriously, it’s like we want to just make it
easy on criminals and street crime. It would be like telling a wheelchair
basketball team to take on the Miami Heat. Either their needs to be a balance
in the guns between the government and the people or there needs to be no guns.
The 2nd
amendment was not part of the original constitution that’s why it’s called an
amendment. I’m tired of people talking about it like it is a law of nature that
never goes away. Amendments get repealed and added it happens and it can
happen. What people seem to not understand is that when this amendment was
passed they were still using muskets. Yeah it sounds like a great idea for the
people to own guns because the likeliness of them even being able to kill each
other is pretty low. Now a days we have much more effective and precise killing
machines. I’m not saying that’s a bad thing I’m just saying that things have
changed we live in a different world now, it’s time to at least revise the
amendment. The second amendment guarantees
the right to “A well regulated militia” great that’s fine we have the
national guard, “the right of the people to keep and bear arms” note the word
right, you have the right to doesn’t mean you should. I know plenty of people
who have the right to own a gun but the definitely shouldn’t. This amendment
needs to stay but it needs to be revised for a better clearer understanding.
I support what you said by the amendment tells us we have the right to own guns but certain people do not deserve that right. People need to respect the rights and understand that they kill people and not the guns. Lastly I enjoyed your analogies and how you related the ideas to real life situation.
ReplyDeleteYou certainly have a unique view on things Jimmy. I do believe we need to update the 2nd Amendment to make it better suited for this time in history. I think that we shouldn't change it too much though.
ReplyDeleteyou make a great point with this blog. it was very interesting to read.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the fact that the 2nd Amendment should be revised to the present day settings. People should have restrictions on what types of guns they are allowed to own. Guns do not kill people, but they do make it easier for people to kill other people.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the fact that people kill people and guns are just a tool to do so. If we take away guns people will find other ways to kill if they want to. I also agree that we should get rid of assault weapons because there is no need for citizens to have them. We only need the guns we hunt with.
ReplyDeleteSo I would like to see a link to some of the statistics you used in the beginning of the blog. Try not to get to fancy with the analogies.
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