Since the shooting in Newtown Connecticut on the 15th December, the NRA have held a conference stating that there should be armed guards in every school in America. Their reason for this was “To fight bad guys with guns, you need good guys with guns”.
When I was watching the conference, I was appalled by what was coming out of the mouth of their leader! I know the famous saying goes you have to fight fire with fire but this time it definitely won’t work! during the conference, two people interrupted in protest saying that the NRA were the cause of the deaths of those children at the school. I believe that they are right!
After all that has happened, I don’t see how the NRA can stand there and promote guns and say that carrying a gun is right! I’m okay with soldiers and secret service personnel carrying firearms because they are protecting their country and their president but there is no need for police officers to carry guns in America because in the UK, less people carry guns so there is less gun crime!
I honestly don’t know what the NRA were thinking when they stepped up to the podium last night and basically condoned gun crime and condoned civilians carrying guns around the street! what would happen if a couple of students were sitting in the lunch hall at school and someone pulled a gun on a teacher? the whole damn school would pull their guns out and then that could aggravate the situation even more and make the person panic! also, the police wouldn’t know who to shoot!
As for the armed guards being in schools, they shouldn’t need to bring armed guards in to make the children at the school feel safe! the whole point of school is giving children and teachers a safe place to come and learn/teach and make friends and have fun! bringing armed people in, whether they are trained or not, could easily make the students and teachers at the school feel intimidated therefore defying the point of schools!
It also shows that the school is not confident in their security and feel that they don’t have the right powers to protect their students! what sort of message does that send to parents whose children attend that school!
If the NRA’s plans get given the go ahead, the whole of America will turn into a permanent war zone! trust me when I say that the more guns that are bought onto the streets and into schools, the more deaths there will be!
Also, what if one of the children find one of those guns by mistake? and what if they shoot one of their friends or teachers? they will have to live with that for the rest of their lives, knowing that they have killed on of their closest friends or their favourite teacher purely because guns were allowed into school and the supposed trained armed guards were not careful enough and didn’t put their weapon out of the reach of that child!
The NRA are making a huge mistake by proposing this murderous idea and I hope that they realise this sooner or later, if not Obama better use his common sense and not allow that to happen otherwise I guarantee you that he will become the most hated president in American history,especially if a silly mistake is made and another innocent person dies!
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