In my opinion I am for the Congress in making stricter laws to obtain dangerous weapons such a guns.
Guns are way too easy to obtain these days which caused all the open-fire problem starting Friday and throughout the weekend. It is really sad that something like this happened but the reality is that the cause of this is because of the gun regulation the government has. That's why Congress should regulate guns and make only people from the government is legally allowed to have a gun. Anyone else with a gun should be charged having a highly dangerous weapon illegally, that way there will be less problems. The Pros of the Congress regulating gun regulations is that it might be able to make things better about gun violence but the Cons is that the Congress doesn't care and they make it to their benefit. The privilege for people to have a gun if they have a license is being violated by people and therefore should be seriously changed. Another thing that might be a caused of the massacre is because many people think that the world is actually going to end 12/21/12 and they will just do whatever before they die. I would rather have a bill that is too strong rather than having the bill just right or too weak because it will cause another massacre like this. The reason why I'm not convinced by the people who opposes the of making stricter laws is mainly because of the massacre that happened recently. If the Congress doesn't make laws stricter, it would cause massacres like this to happen daily and uncontrollable. Joe Manchin said that he will open a discussion about people not being able to obtain assault rifles and a large amount of ammunition after the massacre. A pistol would be really dangerous and yet people are getting high powered assault rifles. Assault rifles are only used in the military or special police operations. There are even cases of dangerous weapons of transportation that can cause major trouble. If anyone can get all these overpowered guns from anywhere easily with loads of ammunition, life would actually be like the end of the world and therefore regulation on guns should be stricter than it has to be in order to keep society into order.
Links for info:
1. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2012/12/17/manchin-gun-regulations-momentum/1774613/
2. http://tucsoncitizen.com/usa-today-news/2012/12/14/shooting-prompts-calls-for-tougher-gun-laws/
3. http://www.nraila.org/gun-laws.aspx
4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_New_York
5. http://www.nyfirearms.com/blog/nys-gun-laws/
6. http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/nyc-mayor-presidents-top-priority-guns-17992643#.UNCoKuT4KSo
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