Who’s to blame the weapon or the person? Gun control do we really know enough about it. Throughout the years gun control has been one of the most common topics in the United States, tens and thousands of death and injuries has been caused by firearms, weather that be mass shootings, suicide, or murders. There has been so many different topics about this subject, like is the Second Amendment really worth all these people dying just to make sure we have the right to have or own a gun in Emma Gonzalez's speech about the Florida school shooting. In the speech she said: “When adults tell me I have the right to own a gun, all I can hear is my right to own a gun outweighs your student's right to live. All I hear is mine, mine, mine, mine”. This shows that even though adults or kids want the right to be able to own a gun, they don’t realize the cost of having that right.
There have been many mass shootings in US history. One of the worst mass shootings occurred on February 14, 2018, when a gunman opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, killing seventeen students and staff members and injuring seventeen others. One of the most outgoing speeches was given by one of the victims of the Florida shooting, Emma Gonzalez; her speech is called ‘We call BS’. Throughout the speech, she goes through the different topics about gun violence and how easy it is to get a gun. She says: “We certainly do not to understand why it should be harder to make plans with friends on weekends than to buy an automatic or semi-automatic weapon”. This quote is showing on easy it is to get a gun and how people are doing nothing about these laws to make them think of fixing these laws, so it's easier to buy a gun than to hang out with your friends on the weekend. In her speech she also mentioned something about the gunman and how he had mental illnesses but they still let him come back to the school. No one did enough to stop him and know one question him about the guns, he had no neighbors or his parents, they didn’t think to stick up for people and call the police or even the school. She even makes a thing towards the president: “You want to know something? It doesn't matter, because I already know. Thirty million dollars. And divided by the number of gunshot victims in the United States in the one and one-half months in 2018 alone, that comes out to being $5,800. Is that how much these people are worth to you, Trump? If you don't do anything to prevent this from continuing to occur, that number of gunshot victims will go up and the number that they are worth will go down. And we will be worthless to you”. She said how if he made harder gun laws, this would happen as often no one else would have to go through that, but what do you think should gun laws be stricter?
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One of the most talked-about protests against violence and gun control took place on March 14, 2018, marked the one-month anniversary of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Thousands of American students and teachers took part in the Enough! The National School Walkout. This walkout was 17 minutes, one minutes of each victim killed in the school shooting. This walkout was to draw attention to gun violence. More than 2,800 were part of the walk out over the country. The walkout was a protest against the fact that society is not going to do anything about gun control laws.
The people that are most affected by gun violence are the victims in every mass shooting or school shooting our generation is affected by these shooting. So many people don’t get that they think it there right it’s the Second Amendment, but what are they going to say when their family’s or friends are getting or got killed by one of these gunmen. Are they still going to have the same opinion, are they still going to think it’s right? I think that we need more gun laws and make guns harder to get. I don't think a 16-year-old should just walk into a gun store and give a fake ID and they'll just give him a gun, or even someone with a mental illness, even though you think that's okay. So many people have already been hurt by firearms, so we must do everything we can to prevent this from happening again in the future.
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