Gun Laws in the U.S

There has been a lot of speculation over gun laws in the past few years. I have talked about it before in one of my first blog posts but with the school shooting that occurred in Colorado I feel like I should discuss the issue once more.  According to CNN, an 18 year old high school student entered his high school on Friday with a shotgun. He shot one student and then turned on himself, taking his own life. He was allegedly trying to confront a teacher over a disagreement and was stopped before being able to get to the teacher. This has just brought up more issues over gun control laws here in America and a lot of people believe that there needs to be better and more restrictive laws to try to control or even stop these attacks.

                People for some odd reason believe that the guns are the issue in these shooting. That is simply not the case. The gun cannot pull its own trigger. Also, our own Constitution says in the Second Amendment that every United States citizen has the right to bear arms and use them. Now our founding fathers definitely didn’t look this far in the future and they would not have predicted what would be happening these days but that law should never be changed. Maybe instead of worrying about the guns we should worry about the people. These people that are committing these crimes are mentally unstable and need to be helped. Like I said, it is not the guns fault for all of these shootings it is the person behind it.

                States around the nation are pushing for laws on harsher back-round checks for people trying to obtain a firearm license. This would never be a problem but the biggest thing about it is that if this does pass and is put into effect what are the chances that they go farther and change more things over time? The National Rifle Association (NRA) is the biggest organization against gun control. They believe that if all people can be taught to use firearms safely, there should be no problem with guns in the country. I totally agree with this. If all people are just taught to use guns in a safe manner there should never be any issues with guns. That is why we need to focus more on the mental state of people and not the guns itself because without a person pulling the trigger the gun is useless.

                This topic will never go away. There will always be people fighting for both sides of this conflict. But what people need to realize is that no gun can be used without a human being behind it and that it is never the guns fault when something horrible happens like it did in Colorado on Friday.