The topic that I have chosen to research for this blog post is gun control laws. Being that I am from a very rural area and that I have been exposed to guns my whole life, gun control laws are something I am strongly against. I researched this topic on CNN and found two very opposing articles.
The first one is written by Tom Pate, a journalist out of Los Angeles. He was a former editor for the LA Times and is for gun control. Pate makes a point that far fewer guns in the United States would result in far fewer deaths. He also points out that he was recently robbed by an armed man so he obviously hasn’t had a good experience with guns in general. He also brings up the Virginia Tech shooting and talks about how the students were killed by guns, not a person so to speak.
The next article I read was written by Ted Nugent, a former singer/songwriter and avid hunter with his own hunting show. Nugent points out that there have been many instances where people who have had concealed firearms have been able to stop massacres before they begin to unfold. He also points out that the building of the Virginia Tech shooting was a “gun free zone.” This didn’t stop the shooter form carrying a gun and killing others. Nugent makes valid counter arguments to Pate’s article and really points out flaws in Pate’s thinking.
After reading both of these articles, my opinion about gun control laws has not changed. I believe that gun control laws do nothing more than keeps good people from owning guns to protect themselves. Bad people are always going to have guns and use them the wrong way. This is just a fact of life. The thing that can change this is if more people are able to protect themselves if they encounter a bad situation and need to defend themselves.
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