Argumentative Essay: The Case For Stronger Gun Regulations

The Case for Stronger Gun Regulations Imagine you are a little boy, a boy no older than six year olds, getting ready to for school. Your blue backpack rests on your shoulders as you approach the red labyrinth, both embracing you while simultaneously encroaching you. Suddenly, a harsh metallic booming sound erupts, and after a mere sliver in time, you lay dead on the floor in a pool of blood. Unfortunately, the course of action just envisioned is not merely hypothetical. Scores of innocent individuals are part of massacres done by the mentally ill with legally bought guns, guns made for war, guns made to maximize death and horror. In terms of reducing violence, the increase in gun regulation is essential in ending the gun violence epidemic

By treading the status quo, the mentally ill and violent criminals are given the ability to acquire guns, needlessly concluding innocents’ lives while accordingly making the US gradually wither, like a faded garment or the effect of a parasitic disease leaching off the body.As established by a former Office of Special Investigations agent, “ I’ve seen a lot[ mishandling of criminal records] of the same and some worse when it comes to how cases are handled and documented” ( Cohen). An inexcusable travesty of justice is slowly materializing in the very roots of the US government, the wealthiest country in recorded human history. Why is this allowed to continue? For that, an in-depth exploration of these agencies are urgent. “ Former military investigators said OSI still relies on agents entering case information into shared databases by hand -- a labor intensive process that has produced a severe backlog of files that can ‘sit in a desk drawer for years’ without being added to the system” (Cohen). On the authority of Cohen, the problems have been in an Inspector General’s report in 1997. After twenty years, only miniscule action has been taken within the system, a slap in the face to the three