Assignment 13- Daniel Mendoza Vasquez- Some people actually agree

We’re all tired of the violence. The shootings at schools, shopping centers, at concerts. It happens anywhere and everywhere. People have to sit there and watch helplessly as an unhinged maniac guns down their loved ones. It is truly an epidemic, plaguing our society. But there is a way to stop this, and we’re lucky to live in a country that gives us the freedom to employ this solution: more firearms. All these murders, crimes, and shootings occur precisely because there aren’t enough guns in enough places. It’s just common sense. If everyone everywhere is consistently armed and primed for a firefight, then all the criminals with malicious intent will be discouraged from hurting the good guys with a gun. Because real life is definitely as black and white as a Disney movie, where some people are always good guys, and someone is always the evil bad guy. Because mental illness is something that people are born with, not something that they develop, and because a person that is both armed and upset will never act impulsively if they are generally a ‘good guy’. And easier access to guns will never facilitate suicide for people struggling to deal with life.

Arming more people will undeniably make our nation more peaceful and quiet—everyone will be too tense and on guard to make a sound. Just take it from Mike Watkins, a cop–turned–firearm instructor from Kennesaw, Georgia: “If I'm a bad guy, and I know this place has guns, it's not a place I'm obviously going to want to go and do something bad.” Kennesaw is an exemplary town, with a law that requires all its citizens to own a firearm. After the law’s implementation in 1981, burglaries dropped by more than half. Who cares that 1981 was an anomaly in which there were 75% more burglaries than normal, and who cares that Kennesaw wasn’t a violent place at all in the first place. Most of all, who cares if human behavior is messier and less consistent than crude logic.