Gun Control Speech

Good Morning,

I stand before you today to give me sincerest condolences to all the families and all people affected by the recent events at Sandy Hook Elementary school. We as a nation need to stand together to stop this unnecessary and inhumane violence throughout our beautiful home that is America.

We need to stop playing the blaming game, wether it’s the politicians, the media, video games, the news or whatever else the NRA seems to be blaming today, and act together. And no, guns are not the answer.

I’m sure you have heard Wayne LaPierre’s most recent speech concerning the Sandy Hook tragedy, and his opinions on the role of guns in America. I’m not here today to completely disagreeing with everything he was saying, however, there were
But we are not the only nation with a violent history, nor the only nation with deranged criminals. Yet we are the only nation with mass shootings every few months. And every few months we get the same speeches from politicians, the media, or our neighbours. They will always say the say things, “this was a tragic incident” and “we need more guns, fewer gun control laws”. But the current gun ration is almost one to one for every man, woman and child, so how can more guns make us safer?

I want you to think about this for a minute. When hurricanes and flood devastate our communities, we work towards making the communities safer. When roads are broken or dangerous, we fix them to prevent further casualties. We invented seat belts to make passengers safer in cars. Yet mass shooting after mass shooting, we have done nothing.

We need to push away from “good guy with a gun” versus “bad guy with a gun”, and just go towards the lack of need for guns. I can already see the headlines “another politician looking to take away our right to bear arms”. But do we really want to defend a right that was passed in 1791, when “arms” referred to inaccurate single shot muskets? Times have changed, technology has grown and it prime time to revise some two-hundred-year old