| Shooting killed 26 people in Connecticut |
The time has come for some sanity on gun control. The facts show that more guns correlate with
more homicides (Harvard School of Public Health), just as the fact that states
that have tighter gun laws have fewer gun related deaths (Richard Florida). We as a country need to stop lying to
ourselves that guns make us safer and finally get some results in gun control
to ensure the safety of our population and ensure that such terrible killings
will not happen again.
Many would argue that the Constitution guarantees the right
to bear arms. However, the very same
document we uphold to be the law of the land and the reason why gun control
should not be enacted once contained provisions upholding the enslavement of
human beings, counting African Americans as three-fifths of a person, didn't allow women to vote, and didn't allow direct election of officials even after a
democratic revolution.
Moreover, when the founding fathers wrote that United States
citizens had a right to bear arms, they did not write a provision in the Bill
of Rights that upheld the right to carry concealed weapons, have firearms with
hundreds of rounds of ammunition, wear body armor, and shoot up a crowded
elementary school. The wide availability
to guns that people now have in this country creates an environment that
violates the basic tenant that our government is supposed to enforce: keep our
citizens safe.
We urge everyone to write to their representative and
Senator to spur action on this particular issue. We cannot afford to wait for the next tragedy for us to be influenced into action.
