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Argumentative Essay: Stopping The Wrong People From Getting Guns

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Stopping the Wrong People from Getting Guns

The second amendment of the Constitution states, "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." While it says we have the right to bear arms and it cannot be infringed, to what extent must we allow guns to take the lives of many everyday? In 2015, at least 265 children under the age of eighteen shot themselves or someone else accidently (Ingraham). How many more people have to be massacred or hurt for the government to pass stricter laws that require a more extensive check on people buying guns? Allowing new laws to take the place of the old ones, may just save the lives of many, and …show more content…

People should not have such an effortless way of acquiring a firearm that can kill a person with a pull of a trigger. In recent years there has been more than a handful of massacres all over the country. Some of the more famous massacres are the Charleston church shooting, the 2015 Lafayette shooting, and the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting. On June 17th, 2015, a man named Dylann Roof, who had a criminal record, shot up a historic church in Charleston, South Carolina where he killed nine people including the pastor. Not only was he charged with nine counts of murder, but with possession of a firearm, and all because the church was an African-American church (CBS NEWS). In that very same year in Lafayette, a man by the name of John Russell traveled 500 miles from Alabama to Lafayette, and shot up a movie theater, were he injured eleven people leaving some injured he injured with more than one gun shot wound, and in addition he killed two women, all before shooting himself. With a legally purchased gun from a pawnshop, he not only ended his life but of two women as well. Although he passed background checks necessary for the purchase, he had a history of mental illness that did not appear in those background checks that were meant to keep people somewhat “safe” (CNN). Yet the most despairing and infamous massacre of all, in my opinion, is the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, This story really hits home because it took place in Connecticut, the state I grew up in, a place I thought, and those children thought, was safe. Twenty-six people, twenty of who were kids and six of who were adults, were brutally shot and killed at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut. Adam Lanza a deeply troubled young man went to the elementary school, after he allegedly shot and killed his mother, carrying three guns, one of which was a semi-automatic assault rifle. Lanza had a history among his school and peers of being a bit “weird”

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