Gun Control
On Monday two men shot an 18-year-old to death on a street corner in Las Vegas. Tuesday in Idaho, a state police officer was shot in the head and killed. The next day 28-year-old Damon Damar Ingram was gunned down while walking his dog in the nation's capital. On Thursday officers arrested 49-year-old Frances Boice in rural South Dakota. Police say she shot and killed her 51-year-old husband in upstate New York before flee-ing to the heartland. Welcome to a week in the United States, one of the most free and violent countries in the world. Where people carry weapons to protect themselves from the other people who own somewhere between 200 and 250 million firearms according to PSR online. And since about 40 percent of those guns were obtained illegally, most are probably going to be used for illegal purposes. So just think, there are 100 million guns out there that could kill or injure you.In order to reduce the number of guns used by people to commit these appalling crimes, we should do three things. Change the current laws governing the process of purchasing guns, make gun manufacturers responsible for their products, and show pri-vate citizens that gun control can be aided with their help
December 6, 1999 Fort Gibson, Oklahoma. April 20, 1999 Littleton, Colorado. May 21, 1998 Springfield, Oregon. And the list of dates goes on. What do these dates have in common? They will all live in infamy. Every one of these dates calls our atten-tion to the fact that violence has no age limit, and that guns are not supposed to be in the hands of dangerous persons. How come in many gun stores they still sell semi-automatic weapons? What were they invented for anyway? Well the first semi-automatic machine guns were produced for soldiers in combat. There hasn't been a war fought inside the United States for over a century. So why are they still being manufactured and sold? I've never seen a hunter who needed 10 shots a second to kill one little pheasant. Shot-guns are more than enough. But the need to shoot an animal 37 times seems excessive. Also why do the gun owners need silencers? They aren't going to kill some animal really, really quietly are they? Silencers were made for one reason, to silence the gun. But why is such a device sold? I could think of another reason, maybe so that other peo-ple in the vicinity of the shooting wouldn't hear the shot. Well the gun manufacturers know their demographics, they aren't a multi-billion dollar business run by a group of naive businessmen. The gun companies know who buys their guns. And the companies are just giving them what they want. Its good business you always give the customer what they want, and in this instance the customers are felons and they want to get away with murder. It is blatantly obvious what the manufacturers are doing, but it just takes one congressmen, one senator, just one person to blow the whistle. Companies shouldn't get away with catering to criminals. Well just recently the U.S. filed suit against the gun manufacturers for producing unsafe products. According to Harold Gearry in the Decem-ber 18th, 1999 issue of Newsweek "the government is planning to sue the gun industry for the ways they market and distribute their products. The Department of Housing and Ur-ban Development is readying a lawsuit on behalf of 3,200 public housing authorities around the country to recover the costs associated with gun violence, which is estimated at around $1 billion a year." Brent Swiller, a top level HUD official said the [lawsuit's] "primary interest will be to change the way the gun industry does business." Swiller was also quoted saying that "this is a massive problem that is facing the United States." To begin, the gun laws mus
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