Posted on November 28th, 2007 at 11:24 pm by hunter1988 and
A few months ago, a horrible tragedy happened at Virginia State. A shooter who studied at Virginia Tech killed 32 staff and students. Be caused by this case. The oblivious topic of gun control returns to public field of view. Anyhow people get fear again, or some people raise the banner of countering gun ownership once more. The US government still keeps their method to ignore public appeal. Maybe you will say the government is wrong, is bad, and even it is corrupt. But at here, I am not talking about the public and the US government. I am talking about the shooter, who is not able to be responsible for what he did, in the end even killed himself. So how can we describe this guy? Fool? Neuropath? Or one guy who had Excessive pressure of study? Everyone has every idea, but in my mind, he just is a guy who is not able to use or hold a gun. In order to let people have a new and comprehensive perception, I will talk about two standpoints between agreement of gun control and opposition of gun control in this essay, and then you will know how gun control is unnecessary.
Most people agree with gun control because they are afraid that getting injured by gun. The US has highest ratio of shooting event in the world. We usually can see some news from magazines like “Seung-Hui Cho, Perpetrator of the Virginia Tech, killed 32”. Therefore, an idea began to germinate in his mind. If the US has a strong gun control in order to people who are not able to understand how to use a gun or even anybody can’t get gun, then the shooting event will abate, and people will have a safe habitation.
However, I think the root cause of the shooting event is that there is not a reliable education and a puissant punishment policy. Every crime is caused by people who are disturbed person. So people should to teach the kind of people who are disturbed that what is gun, how to use gun, where can use gun, and if you use gun to do crime, what you will be in charge of your crime. A puissant punishment policy coordinates with education will have stronger effect. In the result, people fear crime, shooting event will decrease.
Also have some people think that gun makes killing radically easier. Nowadays, the criminal rate is much higher than 200 years ago, because there is an existing of new-style tool, which is gun. In someone’s eyes, gun is a convenient lethal weapon, like Seung-Hui Cho. He could kill 32 people not just because he has some psychological problems; the most important reason is what he used guns. This case caused people to think that gun ownership encourage crime to happen. In other word, gun ownership has hidden trouble to cause more crime.
In my opinion, gun just is a tool which criminal use to practice crime, so gun is innocent. If a guy’s mind already was filled by hatred and impulse, and he can’t find a gun as soon as possible. He will choose another tool such as knife, rope, hammer, or anything he can find. The thing will be still happened with his strong animosity. Would you think if there is a “knife control” policy, our security will be OK? Or we need a “hammer use policy”? Furthermore, this guy even can steal a gun from police or gun store, and make more social panic. Let us talk about Seung-Hui Cho again. We can sure that he lost his mind then, and he didn’t find guns yet. What would be happened? Maybe he would steal a truck, and then insanely drove the truck to hit everyone he can saw. Police couldn’t stop him easily. As a result, he created much terrible effect. So gun is not the reason to cause crime.
Some country like China has strong gun control, not only because they make a compelling policy to reduce crime, but also in order to people are not able to involved country security. As a Chinese, I must admit that in China there were a corrupt government after china republished, and it happened that all protests were brutally repressed by the government as illegal. Although it is varying better and better, we are not able to foresee that there will become corrupt government again. At that time, people don’t have any weapon to counter government, and they are not able to create new government, also the hard chapter will be coming.
Unlike Chinese government, the United States has a fairly gun control. The United States constitution embodies the ideals of freedom and equality. According to The Bill of Rights, the second amendment, “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 (http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/funddocs/billeng.htm).” It means every American citizen have responsibility to watch their country and protect themselves. It not only put restrict to the American government for persisting a well government, but give insurance to citizen for keeping a well habitation.
Gun control is not necessary; government should prevent crime from basic public education.