In just this year alone (which has been 52 days) there have been 18 shootings. In schools. That have YOUR children inside of them. And there is absolutely nothing done about it by lawmakers either in the state or government. 

Every time I open Facebook, there are more and more articles talking about gun violence and how there should be control on what guns people can have. I just finished reading an article explaining how in Florida, the state where the most recent and deadliest school shooting of the year occurred, lawmakers passed an act declaring pornography to have health risks that must be attended to but passing up on legislation to have better controls on guns within the state. The shooting occurred in your state. It injured and killed your children, your neighbors, your relatives, your friends. It’s amazing to see how far people will go to protect an amendment in the constitution that was created over 220 years ago.

The right to bear arms should not infringe on a person’s right to live. 

Especially not a child’s. 

There is no reason that a child should feel unsafe going to school, which is something they are required to do by law. The second that a person is able to walk into a school building with an AR-15 assault rifle, it is so unbelievably clear that there is something wrong with that situation. Why does anyone even need an assault rifle as a layman in society? What is the point? In the majority of the massive shootings, not only in schools, an AR-15 was the weapon of choice. America needs to wake up and realize that this weapon is doing nothing but killing people in society. If the military uses it to protect and serve, that’s fine, but allowing anyone to own and carry one is ridiculous and dangerous. 

The 17 people who were killed in Florida deserve more than to have their lives cut short because of a kid with an assault rifle. These children, educators, and coaches were doing as society says they are supposed to, and they were gunned down for what reason? Had the gunman not had access to an assault rifle would he have done it? Could all of these lives have been saved?

This country is all about freedoms, but the extent that gun freedom is taken to is outrageous. When guns evolved from one round shotguns and handguns to semi-automatic assault rifles, the controls on these guns needs to evolve with it. We, as Americans, as students, as parents, as members of society, need to take control of our own futures and limit the opportunities that are available for us to be killed by guns. We all need to wake up and make a change, because it’s not fair that innocent people are losing their lives because someone is angry and has access to a murderous weapon.