In
class we watched the documentary Bowling for Columbine. This film was written and directed by Michael Moore.
This documentary was to uncover the details of the shootings that have taken
place in Columbine and in the United States. Do you think the second amendment
is correct stating that we have the right to bear arms? Or should we dispose of
the second amendment to keep our country safe from the gun violence? President Obama is trying to take action
by passing laws to keep out country safe from the terrible things that have went on in our
past, like the columbine school shooting.
April 20, 1999 stared off like a normal day for the students at Columbine school. The
bell rings and it is time to go to class. Everything was fine until 11:19 A.M. when
teenagers, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, enter the school library then picking
and choosing students to be shot. The whole school erupted into a huge wave of
panic and terror. Before they would shoot the victims, they would harass or make
cruel jokes about them. This is the most horrific and deadliest school
shootings in the United States history. They killed thirteen innocent people,
twelve students and one teacher, but left twenty three injured. What was going
through the minds of Dylan and Eric as they went into the school picking random
victims and killing them? Why do other countries not have this issue like the
United States?
The Second Amendment 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.” Do you think when this amendment was passed those 223 years
later that this would cause such uproar of violence and harm to the people? No,
where did all humanity go in our world, now days that guns do is kill things. Not
only are we killing people in our country but others as well. We are currently
invading other countries such as, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, and many
more. We are in these countries to protect but at the same time we are killing
people! Why is the United States so reliant on guns? Guns are an easy fix to problems, don’t like
someone no big deal there are 270 million guns that you can choose from to kill
that person.
On
Wednesday 16, 2013 President Barack Obama signed the 23 executive actions to
help protect and save lives in the United States. Not only did he sign the actions he made sure
that if you are to buy a gun a more intense background check must be made,
whether you are at a gun store or an auction.
President Barack Obama quotes, “This is our first task as a society
keeping our children safe.” Obama made the right decision to enforce these laws
to keep our country better and in less harm’s way.
Do guns
kill people or do people kill people? This is one of the most debatable sentences.
Most people would argue one way or another but me I think that it goes both
ways. I feel that we need to enforce
more laws on gun control and make it harder for people to get their hands on
guns. This would hopefully cause less violence and destruction in our country.
Do we really need to feel safe in our own homes by keeping a loaded gun under our
pillow at night?
In this blog I talked about the
shooting of Columbine, the second amendment, the signing of the 23 executive
actions, and my opinion on whether or not we should have guns or not. Let’s
keep our world safe and keep guns out of hands and mind.
