The Pros And Cons Of Gun Control

Allen Francis, M.D states, “The frequency of mental disorders in mass murders is controversial because it is not clear where to draw the line between ‘bad’ and ‘mad’” (Francis). There has been. increase of mass shootings in the United States. From the Orlando shooting to the two police shootings that had a 24 hour difference, people are claiming that gun control should be applied. If we were to enforce a gun control policy it wouldn’t make a difference. The policy wouldn’t work for many reasons, one being, in order for a gun to work, a person is needed to pull the trigger and there is clearly someone behind the whole plan, another reason that it wouldn’t work is because people will just find other ways to create mass killings. Also, there are have been many mass shootings where the case was that the shooter was mentally ill. Going through with gun control will not change

Why are we blaming the gun when obviously there is a person behind the gun and the plan? Of course there has to be someone in control if there were to be a shooting. All it takes is just one comment or even just one action that can cause the shooter to point and shoot. Manteen, the man who created mayhem at the Pulse nightclub was said to be triggered which is one of the reasons why he pulled out his gun. Biggioni from Raw Story explained, “Mateen’s father also said that his son was angered after seeing two men kissing on the street…” (Biggioni). There also is obviously someone behind the whole plan. Just like the student who attended Newberg High School. He had planned to kill staff, students and even a resource officer. The police had found a notebook of all of the boy’s schemes, in his room. The journal included a map of a school with labels of where he would place bombs and weapons. In the journal the student documented a list of people (KGW). This shows one of the many reasons why gun control wouldn’t help our problem with mass