Media Entry 4: Bang Bang

Some may claim that guns kill the innocent people, and so using guns should be definitely banned. However, they miss the whole point. The point is that it is not the guns killing those innocent people, it is the humans themselves killing the people or we can say their intentions are what kill the people. People having good intentions buys a gun to defend himself or his family. Nonetheless,  people having bad intentions may use a gun as a murder item or  may even sell a gun to a murderer. We can give the gunman attack to middle school in USA as an exaple fo this. In that situation, it is not the gun which is resposbile fort his, it is the one holding gun is guilty. Another group of people think that there is no other usage of the gun but killing  people and creating crime. This group is wrong as well because there are varieties of using the gun in all of the people’s lives from self defense to hunting. There are a number of people who make a life with hunting or we can think about being a policeman as an example of occupation requires gun.

To sum up, just banning the legal ways of buying gun is not enough to hold back criminals from killing the blameless people. Even though there would be gun ban laws in regulation, criminals would find a way to get one fo themselves especially in illegal ways from black marketin to stealing a gun. As a consequence, there would be lots of unprotected people living in fear. As we can see in the examples of the states trying to use gun ban laws, it is not a convenent way to stop criminals. Also, we can’t just accuse the gun for killing the people and get out of under this big problem. We should consider people having bad intentions and their reasons to commit crime with gun and accuse this person. As Ted Nudgent says: "To my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death. How feeble is the mindset to accept defenselessness. How unnatural. How cheap. How cowardly. How pathetic.’’ To prevent these problematic people from using gun, we need to think a way of controling the illegal ways of buying a gun.