Why Is Gun Control Bad

Gun Control

One of the biggest and most controversial topics of all time would have to be gun violence, gun control, and whether firearms should be banned. One question still remains, who or what started all of this? Many can conclude that firearms are to blame for when these catastrophes occur, but many don’t pay their attention to the man or woman pulling the trigger. Clearly, firearms do not cause violence, rather the people pulling the trigger do. USA Today, Oxplore, and The Washington Post all give great examples of this.

Five months ago a man by the name Stephen Paddock shot up a Jason Aldean concert in Las Vegas. He killed 58 citizens and injured over 500. Some blame the gun, but is that really the one to blame? USA Today states, “The fact that he had the type of weaponry and amount of weaponry in that room, it was preplanned extensively, and I’m pretty sure he evaluated everything that he did and his actions, which is troublesome.” This shows that the gun didn’t come up with the plan. The man pulling the trigger was the one who planned all of this. What would getting rid of the guns do? Really anything can be turned into a weapon.

The person and the amount of hate does a lot of the damage.
Hate is a very strong term often used in the wrong way.

Even though it’s a very harmful word, it oftentimes plays a big role in mass shootings. Oxplore.com states, “Hate played a part in Omar Mateen’s killing spree, when he shot 53 people in a gay nightclub in Florida in 2016. His father told police that just before the attack Omar had seen two men kissing in the street and got really angry. Interestingly, his hatred of homosexuality might also have been partly self-hatred - it’s since been discovered that he’d actually visited the gay nightclub several times before.” This shows that hate is a very overpowering emotion that makes us do crazy things. The gun didn’t hate anyone, it was Omar. If Omar didn’t have any hate inside of him, the shooting would have never happened. There have also been cases of sad and home broken

kids.
Nikolas Cruz was the man accused of the Florida high school shooting. He’s only 19 years old and is probably going to rot in jail for the rest of his life. The Washington Post states, “When he got older, he became isolated, angry and withdrawn, losing his parents and eventually moving into friends’ houses.” This shows that people that grow up lonely and sad are probably not going to be the best individuals in the world. He wanted others to feel his pain. It wasn’t the guns idea, it was the sad, home broken kids idea to follow through with the thought.
If someone is feeling down or is lonely or sad and they feel that violence is the best way to handle it, taking away the guns probably isn’t going to stop them. Even if guns are banned, people can turn anything into a weapon. There are still bombs, knifes, and countless other weapons.
Clearly, firearms do not cause violence, rather the people pulling the trigger do. Whether firearms get more restriction or not, it’s not going to stop the violence. People will continue to find new things as weapons, and eventually everything will be illegal. So, where does the blame lie, the gun or the person?