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The Right To Defend Oneself

April 18, 2007

One cannot be told of the immense power of guns and its influence in our living. But get a gun, hold it with both hands and shoot a target (an inanimate one, hopefully) and you’ll feel it: the power of a malicious mind and its thought unleashed by a cold, metallic, unfeeling machine to harm the object of its malice. It is a terrible power and not a few want it and believe that they deserve to own such power.

Many believe that guns are making hell out of the world we’re living in. Many also believe that government ought to put more stringent policies regarding gun ownership and storage. Some even believed that the whole citizenry should be stripped of all gun ownership rights. However, I think these people are looking at this issue on a narrow perspective. Did they really honestly think that by putting restrictions on citizens’ rights to acquire weapons for their own defense they could prevent a horrible incident as Virginia Tech University Shooting from happening? If perhaps that student who killed as much as 33 people in the campus wasn’t able to acquire a gun, evil will not fall on those people he wished to harm? He would have found other ways, perhaps a bomb, to pursue his evil intent.

If only perhaps all the weaponry in the world could be eradicated (anything that could be used as a weapon to harm people, so that could includes your butter knives, pencil points, ballpens, scissors, and other sharp-ended, seemingly mundane things), then maybe, just maybe, Va. Tech Shooting will not happen again. But guns were only instruments; it is the malicious thought of harming people that kills people.

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Written by Prudence · Filed Under Current Events, Personal 

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