Thursday, March 28, 2013

Will guns help society?!?

According to New York Times, article: http://nocera.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/28/the-gun-report-march-28-2013/ have discussed very disturbing news on gun violence. This situation is currently being discussed with the U.S. National Government on wheather it would be appropriate and helpful to America. According to Joe Nocera, a 22 year old Florida woman shot and killed her daughter while Moments after killing herself.Her 3 year old daughters body left helplessly while the people at the public golf course stood there waiting for help. This type of incidents can NOT go on any longer, promoting armed weapons to everyone would cause a total disaster to not only certain people but to America.According to http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/30/opinion/congress-takes-up-gun-violence.html?_r=0 , this article is letting people be aware of the difficult task on passing this law; but the Government feels that there should be a better way to protect our citizens. I feel that if the Goverment thinks passing a law to allow people to carry guns around will be a big mistake. This would cause even more killings in America.

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  2. I agree to the article because, people carrying guns would lead to more killing in America. There was another event that happened in Houston Community College on Tuesday, reported on "U.S.News on NBCNEWS.com" that three people were wounded when gunfire erupted. Even though, owning guns might be a self defensive tool, but I believe that it is more destructive for people who owns the gun and people around them.

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  3. My colleague, Kiara Woods, brought up a good topic that has been going on in America for a while now. Ever since the shooting in Newtown happened, the topic about gun control has been brought up a lot by citizens. Kiara’s question is “Will guns help society?” I believe that guns can help society against criminals, but also that it can kill innocent people, which don’t help society. People say that guns kill people. Well if that was the case then that means that, pencils misspell words, cars make people drive drunk and spoons make people fat? I think not. I also read the article that was posted in New York Times that was written by Joe Nocera. He states that “Is it possible to commits cold – blooded murder, in broad daylight, on a busy Manhattan street full of witnesses, and even a camera recording the shooting? It sure starting to look that way” with Nocera saying that , he says that people who have a gun can practically kill anyone as easy as 1,2,3. It sad to know that innocent people die from gun shots every day, and the government isn’t doing much about it. I for one am for the second amendment. I think people have the right to defend and protect themselves and their home from anyone that threatens them, but I don’t think anyone should use a deadly weapon. I believe we should have a universal background check whenever someone purchases a gun. I agree with Kiara that these incidents cannot go on any longer as well. Kiara goes straight to the point with her thoughts that “if the government thinks passing a law to allow people to carry guns around will be a big mistake.” I recommend my colleague to go further more into explaining about how guns can affect society besides killings. But overall, it was a good post and I agree with what she is saying.

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