For many years, and counting the owning of firearms have been legal, and very popular here in the United States and around the world in many other countries. In today’s modern time it takes very little effort to acquire one of these potentially life threatening weapons, and to me that scares the life out of me. The use of firearms has plagued our nation with unnecessary violence, and the banning of owning these firearms will bring forth great benefits to our nation. With the banning of owning these weapons we’ll notice a huge drop in public shootings, in which have been popping up left and right in America, a place in which our citizens shouldn’t have to fear or worry about the safety of their lives. The owning of firearms is a danger in your own home to your children, who wander upon them and lose their lives due to these weapons. …show more content…
For instance, on April 16th, 2007 a man by the name Seung-Hui Cho a student attending Virginia Tech College decided to walk upon campus and massacre 32 civilians. With nothing but his pistol he ended the lives of 32 people, in which could have been prevented if the accessibility on receiving a firearm wasn’t so easy. How many lives do we have to lose for something to be acted upon? When you leave your home and step outside in a public place, you shouldn’t have the thought of you getting gunned down by a person what so ever, so we need to act on this to prevent the loss of citizen’s lives in our own backyard. After the Oregon Community College mass shooting which took the lives of 10 students bringing the death toll to 294 deaths! That’s this year alone, in 2015 there has been a recorded 294 deaths by mass shootings, and that doesn’t include the hundreds of people that were