Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Should guns be continued to be legalised in this present society?

16 April 2007, student Cho Seung-hui, 23, went on a gun rampage at Virginia Tech university campus, killing 32 people. This saddening and shocking news is maybe one of the worst US high school gun attack ever. Apart from grieving for the innocent victims of the cruel massacre that had happened, the government should probably now have a second on whether guns should still be legalised in USA. This type of gun massacre had not only happened once but then it has happened a few times before. Perhaps the government should now start reconsidering on whether should guns be continued to be legalised.

Guns are intially legalised to protect the citizens of United States due to its vast size, causing it very difficult to maintain the security and safety of the people. People are allowed to purchase guns after acquiring the necessary gun license. They are allowed to keep the guns in their home to protect thmselves at all times. Under extreme dangerous position, people are allowed to use thier guns to defend for their lives.

However, due to some factors, guns are sometimes not handled according to rules and regulations. They are misused and abused, resulting in possible tragedies like death.
The factors are the lack of censorship in mass communication and lack of concern from the parents.

Lack of censorship allows varying types of video , pictures and articles to be circulated around the world. Violent videos and pictures are consequently being exposed to young teenagers who tend to pick up life long personality and characters at this period after their puberty. These as a result caused teenagers to be violent as they may find it cool and fun. When they have their sight on the guns, they may be very tempted to try on these new 'toys' just to have fun with it. As a result, many tragedies have started because of this.

This can be partly blamed on the parents too. It is their responsibility to keep the weapons well and most importantly, educate their children on the safety precaution in using guns. It is also their responsibility to keep the weapons under heavy locks so that it will not be able to obtain easily...
Besides that, parents should also spend more valuable time with their children, knowing more of their emotional problems and to take quick and decisive actions if needed. If not, things may just go bad like in the case of Cho...

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