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.

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