Matthew Nestasia Essays (377 words) - , Term Papers

Matthew Nestasia Police Operations Over the last six years, since the school shooting of Sandy Hook elementary, the number of school shootings have sky-rocketed to an alarming amount. The most recent of these being the shooting Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, on February 14 2018, these horrifying crimes happen so frequently that my generation finds them normal, or are just used to hearing them on the news that it almost doesn't faze us. My hope is that soon we can solve the issues with gun violence, but I know that tampering with our second amendment is not the right course the government should go down. Regardless of how many restrictions you put in place, criminals will still find a way to purchase gun illegally. Instead the government should try and focus their efforts on ways to improve mental health programs, at the root of our problems with gun violence the people pulling the trigger have something seriously wrong in their brain that causes them to think and act the way they do. If we continue to ignore the children who have a very serious illness then these crimes will continue and become more deadly than the last. For example, in Florida's recent shooting, the child was stated to have mental issues that people were afraid of and settled it by expelling him rather than trying to help him and steer him down a better path. In my opinion he saw his whole school as someone who gave up and abandoned him to the world; in return he chose to damn them. To conclude, the government is trying to put a stop to these horrific tragedies that continue to occur, but I don't think they know where exactly to start their efforts. The media and most civilians preach to them that it's the tools; guns have to be made harder to obtain. That will not solve our problem, people will continue to steal guns from the ones who can get them legally and use them to commit a crime. Instead of going this route the government needs to focus their efforts on putting a stop to the individuals committing the crimes and provide care to their mental health problems.