Do we have the courage to stop this?



In the article “Do We Have The Courage To Stop This?” by Nicholas D. Kristof talks about how there isn’t strong regulation when it come to buying a firearm but its lots of steps and rules for driving a bus, or buying a ladder or even safety issues for school lunches and because of it Nicholas think this is why more massacre is happening and why its mostly young adults shooting up malls, schools, and movie theaters. This article also talks how there should be more regulations and more standards for buying a gun. Like universal background checks and making serial numbers difficult to erase.

The article stated, “Children ages 5 to 14 in America are 13 times as likely to be murdered with guns as children in other industrialized countries, according to David Henmenway, a public health specialist at Harvard who has written an excellent book on gun violence.” Another example from the article is , “American schoolchildren are protected by codes that govern stairways and windows. School buses must meet safety standards, and the bus drivers have to pass test. Cafeteria food is regulated for safety. The only things we seem careless about are the things most likely to kill.” Another quote from the text is, “ More Americans die in homicides and suicides in six months than have died in the last 25 years in ever terrorist attack and wars in Afghanistan and Iraq combined.” My last quote that was stated in the text is, “We should impose a universal background check for gun buyers, even with private sales.”

I think they should upper the standards for buying a gun also because these people who is buying firearms are shooting up schools and other places. They are killing and hurting people that isn’t doing nothing at all. I agree with Nicholas. I think the should do better background checks. I also think they should up the age to like 23 or at least 21.

This article makes me think that the government need to take a close look into this issue because little kids is losing their life over nothing. I also think about how there isn’t standards for buying a gun but there is standards for buying a ladder. I also think about how crazy people is in the world today and how heartless they can be. I am a teenager that is living in this world and it make me a little scared that one of these massacres can happen at my school.