I am still a teenager, which means that I practically live on social media whenever I’m not dying in a corner because my major is taking all signs of life out of me. I first heard about March for Our Lives when I was reading about the school walkouts and watching the Snapchat stories of my friends still in high school.

Me being a teenager also means that I am aggressively passionate about the things I believe in.

This means my social media feeds? COVERED in political posts and information. I am a very opinionated girl.

Throughout this entire debate on whether or not if there needs to be stricter gun control, I have spent nearly the entire time thinking about it from an ethical point of view. I have played it over again and again trying to figure out where the misunderstanding is, but the only thing I can come up with is that some people just don’t see the world how it is meant to be lived according to philosophers around the world.

Saying that your right to own a semiautomatic weapon is more important than another person’s right to live a full life goes against every ethological principle and is just downright selfish and stupid.

Ethics teaches us that we are all inherently equal to live a full life and to interfere with someone’s right to live is equal to that of not allowing anyone any rights at all. You are to not take away the most basic human life for your own situational hypothesis of an illusion of protection.

You do not need a semiautomatic weapon to protect yourself from a burglar or to go hunting.

I have a hard time wrapping my mind around the fact that law-abiding gun owners are actually against having stricter regulations on guns so that people with mental deficits cannot obtain guns to go shoot up schools or shopping malls.

I have GAD and clinical depression, and if I have to go through a much longer process to get a gun (I do want to get my concealed carry license), then so be it. That is not infringing on my right to own a gun, that is regulating it, just like we regulate driver’s licenses, alcohol and liquor sales, tobacco, gambling, and even getting into a fricken’ nightclub!

I am sick and tired of waking up to notifications that there was yet another mass shooting somewhere and people had their lives ripped away from them. Why is it that I can walk myself into a Walmart right now and leave with a gun?! Why is it that some guy in the corner’s right to own a gun is more important than my right to fricken’ graduate and save lives when I’m a nurse?!

This new gun movement is important! We are seeing young people everywhere stand up for what they believe in and speaking out against what they think is wrong. Anyone reminded of the Civil Rights Movement? We are the changes that we want to see in the world, and we’re old enough to vote in the next election.

The world is constantly changing, we are nothing like the country we were back ten years ago. So much can change in such a short amount of time and we plan on changing it all.

I will not be silent. I will stand up for those who have died wrongly in cold blood. There are too many deaths by guns every year. This is a gun issue. This is a mental health issue. This is an ethical issue. This is a young adult issue. This is an elderly issue. This is a middle-aged issue.

This is an issue that every single American needs to be concerned of.

Enough is enough.