The following is an excerpt from an ABC news broadcast on September 16, 1999:.

             After the massacre at Columbine High School and a day trading firm in Atlanta and the Jewish daycare center in Los Angeles, now someone has walked into a church in Fort Worth, Texas and started shooting. The target, 150 teenagers attending a prayer service. Once again we are learning about the killer. Larry Ashbrook, a man with no criminal record but a history of mental problems. A man who bought his guns legally. And once again the attorney general and the president are calling for action, for some way to stop the carnage.

             Three adults and three teenagers were killed that day. Imagine that one of these teenagers was your best friends. Your best friend was shot by Larry Ashbrook, a man that was suffering from depression. He should not have been able to buy a gun legally. This is one of the many cases where gun control could have prevented the deaths of many innocent lives.

             I was thinking one day, and I came up with what we.

             can do to obtain gun control in our schools. I.

             realized that a scholar would do anything their role.

             model does. I think to myself sometimes, it"s a.

             disgrace hearing someone my age kill someone, but it"s.

             a dishonor hearing about a five or a six year old.

             killing someone.

             News and Media always say " the parent should.

             embrace themselves in their child"s life." This is not.

             true most of the time. The child knows deep down.

             inside, what"s right and what"s not, but they don"t.

             think. We can do a lot of things to obtain guns from.

             our schools and the first thing is to have security at.

             every school. By this no one will bring a gun to.

             school.

             As I stated earlier, scholars do what there role.

             model does. What I mean by this is if a child sees.

             there role model on there way to school in a corner.

             buying a gun, the next day or even the next week that.

             child might too. If for instance if the child saw.

             there role model asking a teacher for help at school.