I don't care if "it's your right." I don't care if you feel safer with it. I don't care if you like owning them. I don't care if you think the government is growing too big and taking away your freedom. Gun control needs to be a thing.
Yes, the American people have a right to bear arms. But when the people show that they can't handle this right, and multiple school shootings occur each year, something has to change. Which is more important to you: having your guns, or reducing the probability of dozens of people getting killed in reckless shootings? (I realize that that is probably a false dilemma, because bad guys will still get their hands on guns, even if they were outlawed. But the least we can do as a society is to try our best to prevent our citizens' deaths at the hands of irresponsible gun owners.)
Perhaps I'm only posting this out of reactionary emotions because another school shooting just occurred, and this time at a school where a close friend of mine attends. But perhaps that reason is legitimate, because a person whom I care very dearly about potentially had her life in danger due to someone who should never have possessed a gun.
As I'm writing this, I'm realizing how much more tragic and scary school shootings are when you have only two degrees of separation from it. I feel that I have a widened, yet incomplete understanding of the gravity of these catastrophes. And I hope it doesn't have to get any wider or more complete.
