With all the shootings that have been happening all over the world today, the next thing that will come before our nation's government will have to do with our right to bear arms. When any shooting happens it makes these men and women in our government think that to solve these problems is to just take away all rights concerning the ownership of guns.
I think that they should just make the laws harder for the people that use guns for the wrong reasons. We have guns in our homes to protect our property and ourselves. We use these guns to kill food for our families or to protect our families from dangerous animals.
We need to make stronger age limits on the right to buy a gun or hand pistol. If an underage child is found with a gun without adult supervision, they need to be taken care of right away. They need to make the charge strict enough that they can't just laugh the charge off.
When the 1999 Columbine shooting in Colorado took place and was plastered all over the news the first thing that everyone brought up was our rights to bear arms, and that they needed to be taken away. The world just found out about the shooting that happened over in Finland a couple of days ago.
There was one before this, both in a short span of a little over a year. Both had killed eight to ten people before killing themselves. In our country you have to be at least 21 years of age to be able to buy a gun of any kind. In Finland you can be 15 years to buy a gun, and the government of this country wants to raise this age limit to 18 years of age. However, they have been slow in getting this passed because there are 1.6 million gun owners in this country.
This country is number five in the nations with the most gun owners, the other countries being the United States, Yemen, Iraq, and Switzerland. Finland's government was going to change their gun laws after the first shooting in 2007, but as to this date they haven't changed their laws. This nation is and has very deep-rooted Nordic traditional hunting traits.
Most of these traits are still in practice today. Their government really needs to look at the bigger picture and do something about this growing problem of theirs, or they will keep having this happen over and over.
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