Bowling for Columbine

                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.