The Controversy on Gun Laws
There is currently a lot of discussion in Washington and across the United States regarding policies pertaining to guns. The vice president recently spoke about executive orders that the president would like to implement, in order to inforce more laws regarding purchasing and owning had guns. This has been a widely debated issue between republicans, who want less gun laws, and democrats, who want more gun laws, but the recent shooting in Newton, has once again braught it to the forefront.
I would just like to say that anytime a president uses an executive order to by pass congress, I take issue with it regardless of what it is that they are trying to pass. That being said I think that this initiative by the president is wrong. The problem that I have is that it is not logical to blame an onject for an action. If this is the case then we should ban all cars, because people kill others when they choose to drive drunk. Killings can happen with all sorts of objects, guns just happen to be the weapon of choice, and it is not fair to take away from the law abiding majority, to pay for the sins of the minority.
The other thing that really bothers me about this is the collective punishment aspect of it. This administration tends to view people not as individules but as a collective. Take wealth for an example if not everyone can attain wealth then no one should be able to, in their minds. Samething with guns if some people are too irresponsible to own them, then everyone is. This is the controversy with this issue, democrats believe that if we take away the guns then we are making it harder for people to kill, and therfore less mass shootings will occur, while the republicans believe that taking away the guns will only insure that law abiding citizens will not be able to defend themselves. This is a controversey that has divided many, and will continue to do so as long as men are sinful and find ways to commit crime.
