Writing Day – Gun Control

Writing Day – Gun Control

 

Writing Day occurs each week in Mini-School. Students are asked to write on a given topic. The Com-Mini-Cations class has chosen the following writing day assignments as outstanding examples of Mini-Schooler’s thoughts on the topics of: competencies a high school student should have upon graduation, and the recent attempt on President Reagan’s life and gun control.

Crystal Williams

The assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan didn’t really change my views on gun control, it just made me think about it more and feel stronger about it.

I feel that it would be in the best interest of the majority of the people in this country to enforce handgun control. Most people do not own handguns for the purpose of hunting, so therefore, their main purpose is to kill people.

Hand guns can be obtained by almost anyone. Even people with criminal records can get them. The man who shot John Lennon had recently been released from a mental institution, and the man who shot Reagan had a police record, and they obtained their handguns very easily.

I don’t understand why so many people are opposed to gun control. I think this country would be able to survive if people didn’t have these weapons around for the sole purpose of killing other human beings.

The attempt on Ronald Reagan’s life didn’t really affect my views on presidential security, but it should certainly affect Reagan’s views. If I were him, I wouldn’t want to go out in public very much anymore if lunatics could so easily get really close to me and blow me away. There are a lot of people in this country who feel that Reagan will die in office, and some of those people would like to see it happen. If I were Ronald Reagan, I would be scared and I wouldn’t be so eager to go places and make appearances. Or else, I would be strongly in favor of gun control.

It’s kind of strange that the man who is against gun control gets shot with a gun that his administration could have banned. I guess that now if Reagan is afraid of being shot and he tightens his security, he is making his bed and lying in it.

Sue Neunsinger

I think that the issue of Gun Control is one that could be debated forever and never be resolved. Who can really be the judge of who is “eligible” to own a gun and who isn’t?

Although I agree that the assassination of a president is a very serious matter that deserves the attention of the nation, I think that maybe some of that time should be used for the other victims of shootings and in fact, the whole issue of gun control.

You can’t take away the rights of a person to have the means to protect themselves and/or their family, but even the ordinary citizen can turn into a murderer in a matter of seconds.

There will never be total abolishment of handguns in any part of the nation. Ours is a nation raised on violence from the very beginning of its time. I don’t think the aura of violence will ever disappear from it. It is a subject that deserves more national attention than a passing reference because a president is shot. How about all the other “nameless” victims that don’t ever get a second thought? Their lives were taken because people just don’t care enough so long as it doesn’t happen to them.