Should Guns Be Banned?

After the elementary school shooting incident that kind of shook the world, the one question that was being asked is that, should there be a revision to the gun laws? If I am not mistaken, in certain states of America, everyone is allowed to carry a gun for self-defence or security purposes. I can understand because not everywhere is safe, and sometimes it is better to have self-defense.

 

However, if people abuse the law, what then? Personally, I am never an advocate of any arms. Arms and dangerous weapons should only be carried by those licensed and trained for it, like the police or military. They should never be allowed on a lay person, because things like these do more harm than good.

 

This is not the first school that had incidents like these. There have been other schools, including the famous Columbine High School, where Michael Moore did a documentary on the school shooting. Jodi Picoult also wrote a book on school shooting in her novel "Nineteen Minutes". Even though that is fiction, it was a masterpiece on the aspects of school shooting and the effects and consequences involved.

 

The thing is, after all these incidents, the distress of the parents, the innocent victims and the clean up by the local police, should the government not do something already? This time round the victims are so young. What can a six-year-old harm you with that you have to kill him? And the teachers and staff who protected the children were killed too.

 

How many more kids have to be innocently killed before someone actually steps in and put a stop? Why not just put a nationwide ban on the buying, collecting and storing of firearms for lay people, unless one is licensed to carry a gun or work for a unit that needs a gun? Guns are for self-defense, but when innocent people, especially children, are involved, then it becomes an abuse of weapons and the perpetrator should be charged and executed, if he is not already dead.

 

I really hope the American government can take this issue seriously and not cause anymore innocent deaths of schoolchildren. The issue of firearms is really going to get out of hand if this continues.