Gun Control is Not Crime Control
Americans are faced with an ever-increasing problem of violence. The streets of America are now a war zone. Teenage gangsters murder one another for drug territory, and innocent victims are caught in the crossfire. However, most recent and most abhorrent, is our children are killing one another. They are killing with extreme prejudice. Our children are killing, exhibiting little or no remorse for lives they have taken. We cannot ignore the carnage our society endures due to the criminal behavior of a minority, obviously lacking the basic moral behavior regarding human life. Nevertheless, we must not be misguided in our efforts to address the problem at hand. To eliminate the right of citizens to own firearms is not a solution.Violent crime is not an issue that has reared its ugly head in the nineties. The prohibition of alcohol was the beginning of what historians considered the most violent time in modern history. Prohibition sparked murderous wars between mob families for the black market alcohol trade. The government in their infinite wisdom made the ownership of fully automatic firearms illegal, as a solution to the increased violence. I do not see any need for anyone to own a machine g
The indiscriminate killing in our streets is not due to drug addiction, disease, or gun availability. There seems to be a complete breakdown of the moral fabric of a society. Recently we have been witnesses to an alarming trend among our young people. In Colorado, Arkansas, Pennsylvania, and small towns across America, children are committing the ultimate crime against humanity. Americas' children have become heartless, calculating assassins. In order to understand the unimaginable actions of other individuals, we clamor over one another to place causation to the fact that children have become killers. Something caused these children to commit the ultimate crime. If the guns were gone, this would not have happened. Tougher laws would have prevented the massacre at Columbine High. The gun shows made it easy for the killers to get guns. The fact that over eighteen firearms and explosives laws were violated seems to have escaped the American people. The two teens showed total disregard for the laws of man, and the laws of god. We, as a society, must look away from the tools chosen for destruction, and begin to focus on what has led us to our present state of chaos. It is not gun availability, drugs, or lack of law enforcement that has brought us to the place where children kill. The issue of the "right to bears arms" bears no relevance to the issue of crime in our country. Moreover, the "right to bear
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