Too Easy to Get Guns

All over the world people are mourning the loss of 26 lives, 20 of which were under seven years old, from Sandy Hook School in Newton Connecticut. The Sandy Hook shooting is the second most deadly shooting in U.S history, behind the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007.







On this blog post, I would like to look at how easy it is to get guns in the United States because many lives would be saved if there were stricter laws on owning guns. According to ABC News, "Right now if you don't have a criminal record and you have not been adjudicated as mentally incompetent, you can buy guns".To read more CLICK HERE. There are so many people in this country that do not have a criminal record and not considered "mentally incompetent". It is so easy to buy guns that in just November of this year, two million guns were bought. I think firearms should be illegal for all citizens besides law enforcement and the military. Since 2006 over 47,000 U.S lives have been lost due firearms--That is about 21 people per day.

What do you think? Should there be tighter laws on owning guns?

14 Year Old Evanston Student Shot and Killed

     Evanston, Illinois-- a place many families, students, and teens go to movies, shop, eat at  restaurants and see entertainment. A maze of purple floods the streets as Northwestern University students walk around in between classes. Although there are some "iffy" areas in Evanston, it is filled with affluent neighborhoods, where one would think there would never be life and death situations. However, on September 20th, 14 year old Dajae Coleman was walking home around 10 pm by Church St. and Davis St. (downtown Evanston) and was shot four times and fatally wounded in the chest. Coleman was prospected to go far in Basketball and his coach said that he was "one of those kids that's always willing to help out in the community". To read more click Here. 
      The news has shocked the community and yesterday students flooded Evanston High School wearing red, as it was Dajae's favorite color. Many people ask themselves, "Why him? Why was he killed?" The police are still investigating with currently no leads. They suspect it was not gang related, so why kill an innocent boy? 

     This tragedy has really made me think. Why is it so easy for Americans to get their hands on a gun? There needs to be stricter laws with gun use to prevent these accidents from happening. Only professionals should be able to own firearms because an unexperienced kid with a gun could potentially not just hurt others, but themselves because of lack of experience. 
      As Evanston family and friends mourn the loss, the school released Coleman's "Belief statement" that he wrote for his humanities class. To read his last piece of writing before his passing Click Here.