Some of this was originally written for one of my personal social media accounts, (Starting kinda later on though, you likely won't even be able to seperate what is and isn't so I wouldn't worry about it being very different from the usual anyway) so its a lot more serious, sophisticated and less explicit considering my family members follow me...
It's more of a serious topic anyway so I'm sure I wouldn't have even added much/any humor anyways.
There have been more and more school shootings, gun violence, etc. across the United States, so that prompted me to think about gun control.
It's even starting to affect my community personally. There was a rumor about a shooting threat about our school and many others (people were unsure about which because it got spread and changed like rumors do.) and they actually caught the guy that made the threat and detained him. All of that mess was why I didn't go to school Monday.
It's so sad that we have to fear for our lives going to school, and its awful that parents are required by law to send their kids to school knowing they could possibly be sending them to their death. Something has to be done about this.
Little kids are terrified to go to school because of these sickos shooting up schools. School is supposed to be fairly happy and safe (supposed to be, for most people.) when you're younger, at least that's what they tell us, though I highly disagree.
When you're like 5 - 9 your biggest concern should be whether they will be out of chocolate milk in the cafeteria, not whether someone with a gun will come into your school and try to kill you...
This is messed up, no one should have to worry about this kind of stuff, much less children!
Should we have gun control? I kinda agree with it and don't. It'd be great to have stricter gun laws, but all that'd do is take them away from people that need them for protection and only people who don't care about the law and obtain them illegally will be the ones that do have them.
The thing is, guns are so dangerous is because they're long range, have the ability to kill with one headshot, they're fast, conealable, etc. I know that guns don't go shooting people on their own, its the person behind it. We definitely do need to take mental illness more seriously and start taking things seriously before people are dead. Not everyone can or wants to be fixed though, some people are just so violent and void of ethics that they can't really be reformed, hopefully this is rare though.
It'd take quite some time to kill with a knife or something, you couldn't just kill twenty people in less than a minute. You'd have to physically be able to get to each and every person, which would take up more time and give people more opportunity to run away. Having the ability to kill so easily; just by the pull of a finger- is one of the things that make these people so deadly.
They can kill before anyone can even approach them or anything. Someone has to be able to get to them in order to stop them (without having a gun themselves) and a gun lowers the chance of that happening. I think it'd be a lot easier to protect yourself against say, someone with a knife, you could carry pepper spray or something, which wouldn't work at long range, so it'd be useless against someone with a gun.
Taking away guns wouldn't completely solve the problem, but would make it so when these things do happen that many more people can walk away from it. It would take some time to fix people's brains, but gun control is really the only thing that could be done immediately, besides just detaining anyone that is known to be mentally ill, (with some that are known to be a danger to themselves or others and freely admits it this should be done antway, but you can't always tell which have the potential of becoming violent.) which isn't right and may not even be that effective, but it may not even be a good idea because of what I mentioned earlier about lawbreakers having guns and innocents not.
Guns are already so widely distributed that it'd be difficult to take them away and such at this point and would be a lot more effective if we had done it sooner, but even that would still hold many of the same risks. Basically, everyone has guns because they're scared that everyone else has guns, and it seems that the more these incidents happen, the more sense that paranoid mindset makes.
Its a complicated situation and really the only thing that can have a high chance of working is focusing on mental health and taking it seriously. Whenever someone says they have mental health problems and need help, people just brush them off and say they're just looking for attention or being dramatic. Obviously they aren't, at least to some degree or this wouldn't be happening.
Even if some people are just looking for attention- I'd rather give that attention to someone that doesn't need it and possibly save lives than let someone who does need help run free and endanger others because we don't want to give the attention seekers what they want. In the case that they are looking for attention- That's a mental health problem in itself. It's not normal or healthy to go that far to look for attention and there are likely underlying issues.
All we can really do that wouldn't risk making things worse is focusing on helping those with mental illness and stopping the problem before it gets so severe. I think this should be done anyway because mental illness still causes pain and suffering just like physical illnesses do, and we can't just predict who will or will not become violent if they don't get help, so more help and less stigma over mental illnesses would help in many ways.
