Does america needs more gun

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America’s reaction to gun violence? More guns

By Matthew Coutts | Daily Brew – Tue, 18 Dec, 2012

In the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting, gun advocates seem to be pouncing on the opportunity to present their views, no matter how twisted they may come across. They are warning the public not to “politicize the issue by calling for gun control” and stating that more guns is the way to avoid violence. “In the words of John McClane: Yippiekai yay.” Several school superintendents have been sent emails by Oregon State Rep. Dennis Richardson who led the front on gun advocacy as an answer to gun violence. He believes that if schools allowed teachers to carry guns or have a gun locked in their classrooms, that situations like this could be avoided. I think what he fails to realize is that teachers could become the shooters, children could get their hands on guns, and anyone in he school at the time could steal those guns and then we have another massacred on our hands. It makes little sense to say having more guns will stop people from using gun for violent means, this “resounding response to gun violence appears to trend against the obvious”. Another Rep, this time od Texas, agrees with Richardson, telling fox news that “principal Dawn Hochsprung would not have died in vain if she had a shotgun locked up in her office.” The gun advocates seem to be blinded to the obvious, that the prevalence of guns is the cause of violence. In countries, such as Canada, where “gun violence is exponentially lower, gun control is a reality”. This is something America seems to not realize and refuses to embrace safety through control, not fear. The gunman’s mother owned five registered guns, and at least three were taken by her son and used to kill her and carry out the shootings at Sandy Hook. The mother had “taught her children to shoot so they would be prepared for the coming of social chaos”, while the guns seemed to be cause. It seems unnecessary to me to have citizens in possession of assault rifles and shotguns and weapons that are clearly not necessary for anything other that a kind of warzone, certainly not for hunting or even for defending. Gun advocates remind me of an old saying, “to fight fire with fire”. The are just adding sticks to the fire, not water to put it out and with this growing fear and growing violence, I sincerely hope that some gun control laws are put into action to put an end to this mentality and these tragedies.