Final Reply to: Gun Violence: What do I care about it?

In response to Doan Nguyen’s, Gun Violence: What do I care about it? I agree with you that America is facing an increasing number of mass shootings. We hear about mass shootings and school shootings on a daily basis. It’s unfortunate that this has become a norm when tuning in to the news today. I totally get that you would like to ban guns altogether. However, realistically that will never happen. All guns could be banned tomorrow but that will not stop people from getting their hands on them. Assault weapons and semi-automatic weapons are banned but nonetheless, a teenager was able to secure more than one of these weapons in addition to, hundreds and hundreds of rounds of ammunition before going out and shooting up his high school classmates and teachers. So no matter if all the weapons were banned, there will be someone, somewhere willing and capable of getting, smuggling, and selling them to someone else. Some other people with no morals, ethics, or remorse, willing to shoot and kill anyone.

A person does have the right (a choice) to protect his home and family by bearing arms. However, it is the criminals, psychos, mentally disturbed that do not have any business with a firearm. But they know where to go to purchase one. There will always be dishonest, inhumane, psycho individuals that have no regard for other human beings. Guns will remain a choice for many. This is reality.  

Until the law and people change, guns will remain a choice for many. We should take care when leaving our homes, going shopping or anywhere. Be cautious of our surroundings and be cautious of other people. Don’t take freedom to go and come as you please for granted. There are so many souls that are pleading and begging for freedom to return to their homes and families. So many lives destroyed by evil, mean, violent, vicious individuals. Taking away at gunpoint to a place so dark it’s impossible to think of nothing else. I wish for their safety and pray for those that have succumbed to gun violence. I also wish that we lived in a society that everyone loved and respected one another and violence and guns were in-existent. Perhaps if gun manufacturers cease to manufacture guns perhaps guns will eventually cease to exist. But again is that being realistic?!