Gun control is a big discussion in the Canadian government. Should people be able to own them? If so, where can they buy guns? When can they own a gun? What kind of guns can they own? But also, why should people be able to own guns? Lots of people disagree with this. They feel as if no one should be able to own guns. Guns are mostly used for self defense and if no one has guns, no one is in danger, right? Well that's their belief but there's also a lot of people who think we should be able to own
Indeed, one such atrocious moment was during the Columbine shooting incident where two high school students, both of which acquired an arsenal of weapons through gun loopholes at a gun show with a friend, killed at gunpoint thirteen students and wounded twenty-three other students with ease. One of those innocent victims of that senseless rage was Daniel Mauser, a sophomore student at Columbine who was only 15 years old
The NRA has also tried to argue that the issue of guns to cultural aspects of family structure by blaming the “decline in family values” for mass shooters becoming radicalized. The term “family values” has also become a stand-in for a host of socially conservative beliefs about gender and marriage, which are espoused by the religious right. It is true in the case of the Parkland shooter that foster parents raised him. However, this was because his mother died of pneumonia when he was young. Consequentially
In Oprah Winfrey’s commencement speech to the Harvard class of 2013, she began by exclaiming how thankful she was to be there, naming the key people responsible for bringing her there, and congratulating the class. Ms. Winfrey then outlined the reason for her speech, which was to provide inspiration to the class as they closed one chapter of life and began the next. Next, she gave a personal story of how she got into the business of journalism. In describing how she got started and then kept raising