December 18th, 2012

"I Have A Dream…" Speech

In the second amendment, it says all citizens have the right to bear arms, but when twenty little babies die and seven courageous adults are slaughtered, these rights seem to be questioned by the hearts of the American people.

We seem to ask ourselves how? How does a crazy murder get a gun in America, isn’t that the kind of thing that happens in weak, unorganized countries? Now of course everyone has the right to buy anything that is in the market, but my question to all of you is this: is buying a gun a little too easy? What sort of certification does a person need to get a gun? Once a person turns 21 they can go to a gun store, fill in some paperwork, hand them their license, and be in and out of the store in an hour or two. Doesn’t that seem a little … sketchy? Let’s say my neighbor had a gun and I pissed my neighbor off… I’m done. Owning a gun is a huge responsibility on its own, but if you got that person a little too angry, the scary thing is that person has the power to end your life. So because having a gun is such a huge responsibility, shouldn’t people buying the gun be more educated? If a person is interested in buying a gun they should be forced to take classes on proper use and security for their gun. Even before they are able to buy the gun the store should do a background check on the person, see if they have any criminal backgrounds, if they are an alcoholic, are on any prescription drugs that can effect their mental health, and see if the person has any disorders. If that person meets all the requirements to own a gun, they should also be given a security system to protect their weapons from going into the wrong hands.

Sure the system for buying a gun will be difficult, but it should become difficult, not any person with a license should be given a gun. But getting a gun should be difficult, so that way people that want to harm others won’t be able to do so. In the past seven months there have been four major mass murders, and how have most of these guns be acquired? These murders, killing dozens of people have gotten their guns legally. If this doesn’t show the government that we need to change our police on gun control, what will? In Wisconsin when shooting occurred in the Sihk Temple, nothing happened to change the policy. The shooting at a Minneapolis manufacturer, nothing changed. The Colorado shooting didn’t change much either just scared people into going to a movie theater. And then the Newton tragedy? Hopefully this time, change will happen, but why did it take us this long to realize all the dangers? Why did it take twenty-seven innocent lives that never had a chance, to finally start people realizing we need to fix this? We need to learn from the Newton tragedy, at least then the victims will be able to know nobody will feel they way they do now. Because this can’t go on, we can either stop it now, or risk more mass murders occurring. Imagine your little girl going to school, and never coming home, your teenage brother going to the movies and never coming home, we need to protect our people, and we can do this with proper gun control.