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Mar 21
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nightwing2018

Protect the guns to Protect the kids

I'm going to say straight out that I am not marching this Saturday. I believe that we do need guns, but we need to make sure they are in the right hands. This really concerns me if we have restrictions on guns. We need guns to protect us from, big surprise, The Government. Even if one rule starts restricting guns or a certain kind of gun it will just go down hill from there. Plus, we won't be taking the guns away from the criminals. It will give those shooters more oportunities to murder even more kids and adults. I believe that we should arm the responsible teachers who want to be armed, because what shooter wants to shoot a school that has armed teachers? They would find another school that doesn't have armed teachers, simple logic. Even if a shooter still goes and shoots up a armed school, there could be 1 person who dies instead of 17, and that could very well be the shooter and not a student or teacher.

The gun that the shooter in Flordia used was a AR-15 which is an assult weapon. So should we just ban all assult weapons?  You don't need assult weapons to hunt deer. Well big surpise, you don't need an assult weapon to kill people. Do guns kill people. No people kill people. If you put a gun on the table and told it to kill someone, it wouldn't. More people die from car crashes then from gun violence. So we should ban cars cause they kill people, right? No, because car crashes are caused by the driver. If you told your car to go crash into someone, it wouldn't and it can't.

The Eighteenth Admendment prohibated the manufacturing and selling of alcohol. This admendement was not followed by everyone, people were still illegally making their own alcohol and selling it. Shortly after this law was repealed. So what does this have to do with gun restrictions? If there was a law restricting guns, It Would Not Be Followed By Every Person. The law abiding citizens would follow this rule, but all these shooters and criminals would not. Leaving all the citizens unarmed and an easy target for these people. Our Forefathers wrote the Second Admendment-The right to bare arms- so that we could protect oursleves from those people who don't follow the law. It is a right that U.S. citizens can bear arms, and people have been abusing that privilege.

If the govenment had the control over all the guns they would have the complete control over the people. Just like countries that people aren't allowed to have guns, they'd come knocking on your doors when ever you weren't following the law or doing something they didn't like. The government could either do something like put you in jail or shoot you and your family. America is a free country. Don't take away everyone's rights and don't abuse your privileges.



 
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  1. NightStalkers
    Mar 22, 2018

    Gonna walk out your homeschool?

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  1. nightwing2018
    Mar 22, 2018

    Already answer that question

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  1. YWP
    Mar 24, 2018

    I greatly appreciate your sharing your point of view and perspective. I think the hardest thing to do in life is go against what you see as the majority opinion. It takes courage. But it is oh, so necessary. We must take in all perspectives in our public issues. And we must give differing viewpoints respect.

    thank you.

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    Hey YWP! You're at Young Writers Project headquarters! Want to get in touch? Just message Executive Director Susan Reid here!
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