Gun Control

My colleague, Kiara Woods, brought up a good topic that has been going on in America for a while now. Ever since the shooting in Newtown happened, the topic about gun control has been brought up a lot by citizens.  Kiara’s question is “Will guns help society?” I believe that guns can help society against criminals, but also that it can kill innocent people, which don’t help society. People say that guns kill people. Well if that was the case then that means that, pencils misspell words, cars make people drive drunk and spoons make people fat? I think not. I also read the article that was posted in New York Times that was written by Joe Nocera. He states that “Is it possible to commits cold – blooded murder, in broad daylight, on a busy Manhattan street full of witnesses, and even a camera recording the shooting? It sure starting to look that way” with Nocera saying that , he says that people who have a gun can practically kill anyone as easy as 1,2,3. It sad to know that innocent people die from gun shots every day, and the government isn’t doing much about it. I for one am for the second amendment. I think people have the right to defend and protect themselves and their home from anyone that threatens them, but I don’t think anyone should use a deadly weapon. I believe we should have a universal background check whenever someone purchases a gun. I agree with Kiara that these incidents cannot go on any longer as well. Kiara goes straight to the point with her thoughts that “if the government thinks passing a law to allow people to carry guns around will be a big mistake.”  I recommend my colleague to go further more into explaining about how guns can affect society besides killings. But overall, it was a good post and I agree with what she is saying.