I am John Abram Flores, a 10th grade student currently enrolled in Leadership Public Schools in Hayward. There’s been a messy dilemma with guns recently, and whether they should be allowed in the first place. However, even gun laws can’t stop gun crimes and violence. In 2014, Australia’s murder rate fell to less than 1 killing per 100,000 people-- a murder rate ⅕ the size of America’s murder rate (Leaf 2018). Recently, we’ve faced multiple mass shootings, with Stoneman Douglas High’s tragedy, and last year’s Las Vegas shooting. A real reason to why I’m writing to you today would be because of your district attorney work in Oakland, where a lot of violence occurs everyday. The people have a strong voice, and our opinions over guns and gun control can affect and rattle our government. White House
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“‘[Studies show that] the guns you get back are nonfunctioning, that we’re paying money and we’re not getting real benefits,’ Ralph Fascitelli, the president of Washington CeaseFire, a Seattle-based gun safety organization, tells The Trace” (Masters 2015 source). Paying real money, given by the government to buy function guns and only getting nothing in return (broken guns) is very inefficient, but it does lower the amount of guns in the cycle. Yet, our country’s gun issues aren’t fully volumized by crimes and protests. “But it [the Second Amendment] is probably the most cryptic part of the United States Constitution” (The New York Times 2018). The New York Times makes a point with our Constitution’s most important gun law, with the people having the right to bear arms, yet the single word, “arms”, is ambiguous and doesn’t necessarily state that US citizens should arm themselves with guns. There are different interpretations of the second amendment, but those still don’t stop what students and protestors do
“‘[Studies show that] the guns you get back are nonfunctioning, that we’re paying money and we’re not getting real benefits,’ Ralph Fascitelli, the president of Washington CeaseFire, a Seattle-based gun safety organization, tells The Trace” (Masters 2015 source). Paying real money, given by the government to buy function guns and only getting nothing in return (broken guns) is very inefficient, but it does lower the amount of guns in the cycle. Yet, our country’s gun issues aren’t fully volumized by crimes and protests. “But it [the Second Amendment] is probably the most cryptic part of the United States Constitution” (The New York Times 2018). The New York Times makes a point with our Constitution’s most important gun law, with the people having the right to bear arms, yet the single word, “arms”, is ambiguous and doesn’t necessarily state that US citizens should arm themselves with guns. There are different interpretations of the second amendment, but those still don’t stop what students and protestors do