In order to ratify a new amendment, there must be at least 60 supporting votes from the Senate. In April of this year, recently after the Newtown shooting, only 40 senators voted for a new legislation that would ban assault weapons, expand background checks, and limit the size of ammunition clips.
Before the Senate turned down the amendment, numerous gun enthusiasts gathered on the steps of the Capitol to protest it. Among these enthusiasts was Nick Brinley, who was carrying an AR-15. This gun is a military-style rifle that is very similar to the gun Adam Lanza used in the tragic shooting. Although Brinley’s message appears extreme, he still believes the government should identify and edit the loopholes in gun registration and background checks. He wants to be able to should his AR-15 without the government telling him otherwise. Overall, when surveyed, other gun enthusiasts also believe the gun system that’s implemented now is not perfect and potentially dangerous.
Beginning on October 1st, the General Assembly passed a law that allows concealed weapon holders to carry their guns into a restaurant that serves alcohol, given that they don’t drink any themselves. The only exception is if the individual restaurant prohibits guns. Permit holders can also conceal their weapon in a box in their car as long as the building is state-owned or leased.
Within the state-owned buildings, only private colleges and boarding schools can further limit this freedom, However, public schools and universities, including UNC-Chapel Hill, cannot. Police chiefs from all 17 of UNC’s campuses attempted at refining it anyway, and failed. Although you have to be 21 years old to obtain a permit, I believe this could cause a serious safety issue in the future.
http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/local&id=9267824
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/294821-white-house-gun-control-in-publics-hands
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In the last paragraph you stated having guns on campus could cause serious safety issues despite having to be 21 years of age to obtain a permit. Does this mean that you believe guns pose a threat as opposed to the person? Guns do not kill people, but rather the unstable individual wielding the weapon. With that said, any unstable person could use a weapon of any variety to hurt someone whether they use a gun or not. A person could just as easily go on a killing spree with a knife, and would we blame the knife for this person’s crimes and deem them unsafe? Do you believe all guns to be unsafe or simply military grade weapons? Do you think their should be limitations on the kind of weapon civilians are able to purchase? I am curious to learn more about your stance on the issue. It would also be interesting to find out a statistic regarding how many people who commit mass murder were coined mentally unstable.
I agree with you in that the knife and the gun are not the culprits. However, a ‘killing spree’ with a knife would have a lot fewer fatalities compared to a machine gun that can shoot numerous bullets per second. Not that makes the other deaths less significant, it just makes me fear the gunman more than the knifeman. Does that make sense? I don’t think all guns are unsafe I just don’t see why average Americans need to have an assault rifle, which is why I believe you should only be able to buy small pistols for self defense and other firearms that are only associated with sports, such as skeet shooting.
I also believe that gun limit problems can be very serious to public school in the future. College students are the most impulsive part of people in society because of our age and lack of social experience. For example, 3 weeks ago in UIUC, a phd student who studied maths killed his girlfriend by gun because she wanted to break up with him. “love” issues are always main reasons for people’s impulsion, and college students, who just start to grow up as adults, are very easily to get involved in this kind of issues and, because of lack experience, do something that they will regret for the whole life. Not only love, but many other things like the grades, GPAs…can affect the “delicate nerves” of college students. In this case, some kind of limits have to be put in public school in order to prevent college students from being shoot or shooting others. The opinion that “guns have no wrong, people have” is absolutely right, but this doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t have some kind of limits in public school. Sometimes, limits make us feel more free.
I think this comment makes a very good, but also scary, point. There is no way to predict this kind of impulsive behavior. A strong emotion, such as love as you suggested, can affect anyone more than they can imagine. I met one woman who was on the way to becoming an Air Force Pilot, but decided not to because she wanted to get married instead. That being said, there is no psychological test or evaluation that can predict who or when these random acts of impulse will happen. What kind of gun did he use? My hopeful idea is that stricter gun laws will prevent more people from doing things like this, although he could’ve easily harmed her still even without the gun.