School Shootings: America's Divisive Reality

Once a Week Kimberly Kindy, a prestigious reporter from the Washington Post, once debated, ‘“There’s no playbook for this. We don’t know what we are doing,’ he said. ‘I just know I have to keep fighting until something changes. The most precious thing in the world has been taken from me. What else can I do?’” (Kindy) The second amendment in the United States Constitution has divided this country into two parts. A side that supports the right to bear arms, and the other side that does not. Having a gun at home is necessary for some people, the excuse is said to be ‘self-defense’, but for a few has been the starting point for a massacre. Many young people think it’s pretty easy to play with a gun, or just to handle it, but people do not understand the consequences. This is how school massacres and even suicides begin. As Eric Raymond, an old-school hacker and current famous writer, acknowledges, “It is a kind of acid test, an initiation, to know that there is lethal force in your hand and all the complexities and ambiguities of moral choice have fined down to a single action: fire or not?” (Raymond). School shootings are a real issue in today’s America.

Therefore, this involves several of ethical violations. If a person has a gun, that means that he is willing to kill someone for any reason, could be to defend yourself, but still willing to do it. Owning a gun means death involved somewhere down the road, and the big issue is that it could not be the owner, but his child. In many cases this is how a school massacre begins: Personal problems happen involving violence, etc. And for one reason or the other they take their problem to schools and start unconsciously shooting intending to kill. Eric Raymond once argued, “That is where ethics and psychology bring us back to the bearing of arms. For causality runs both ways here; the dignity of a free man is what makes one ethically competent to bear arms”