Do We Have the Courage to Stop This?

The article " Do We Have the Courage to Stop This?" by Nicholas D. Kristof is about regulating guns. In the article it says, " In the upsetting aftermath of the school shooting in Connecticut, one thought sticks in my mind: Why can't we regulate guns as seriously as we so cars?".

 There are five regulations about ladders, while federal authorities shrug at serious curbs on firearms. The article states, "  Ladders kill around 300 Americans a year, and guns 30,000." There are more things in this world that are more difficult to get than a gun. In the article it says, " As one of my Facebook followers wrote after I posted about the shooting,' "It is more difficult to adopt a pet than it is to buy a gun.' "

 If guns where regulated it would save a lot of lives. In the article it says, " We're not going to eliminate gun deaths, any more than we have eliminated auto accidents. But if we could reduce gun deaths by one-third, that would be 10,000 lives saved annually. "We've endured too many of these tragedies in the past few years," President Obama noted in a tearful statement on television. People feel that Obama's statement is good but if he feels that way he needs to do something to stop these kind of tragedies. The article states, " He's right, but the solution isn't just to mourn the victims - it's to change our policies."

I feel that regulating guns would be a good thing. Like Nicholas D. Kristof states in his article that if we reduce gun deaths by one-third that we would be saving 10,000 lives. I'm tired of watching the news and have to hear that so many people have been shot, or killed or wounded by a gun. Many police officers have been killed by being in a gun war with people. Some people don't know how it feels to have to find out that someone your close to has been killed by a bullet or your family member was caught in the middle of  a shoot out.

October 30, 2012 a friend of mine was shot and killed in Wynnefeild Heights. When i found that out i didn't know how to react. She was in the house baby sitting, she opened the door to let her cousin in the house when she heard the gun shots because her cousin was suppose to had been on the porch. As she opened the door a bullet shot toward the house and hit her in her head. People are not realizing that when you have a gun in your hand that it's one less of a human in this world. Innocent people are dying and losing there lives for all the wrong reasons. One question, will it ever end?