YES

by Ruben Perez

With the recent school shootings in the last two months, we need to have more gun control.

Unfortunately when gun control is brought up, people assume the worst: that the government is going to take their guns from them and criminals will run around terrorizing the good law-abiding citizens of this country that turned their guns in. That’s not what I think or advocate at all.

Both of my parents were in the Army, and my sister is currently enlisted in the Army, so guns are nothing new for my family. I know my mom keeps a gun in her room, and I have no problem with that.  The problem is that not everyone has had gun training and knows how to use and keep a gun responsibly.

Another reason we need gun control is that people can buy military assault rifles.  No ordinary citizen needs these.  These should not be available to the common public.  I doubt that the framers of the constitution and writers of the amendments thought there would be firearms capable of shooting 100 bullets in a single magazine.

Also, back when the Constitution was being written, guns were a necessity of life.  You had to hunt your own food and protect your family from bears.  Hunting is a recreational activity now, and when it comes to safety, most people can’t handle a gun in a high-pressure situation.

Most people I’ve talked to said the answer to the gun violence is more guns.  This is the most stupid argument I’ve ever heard.  It’s like saying you’re going to fight rape with rape. After the shooting in Newtown and in Taft, people had the idea of arming teachers.  There is no way a regular teacher is going to be able to protect his or her students by opening fire at a shooter.  Two shooters firing at each other in public places just leaves more chance for stray bullets to hit more kids.

Also, current gun laws only require 17 states to provide background checks at gun shows.  This makes them the optimal places for criminals or someone that wouldn’t be approved with a background check, to get firearms.  California is one of them, but honestly, who hasn’t smuggled something across a border these days?

Gun laws can be beneficial to keeping people safe.

I understand if you want them to keep your family safe or you love hunting, but you are not the people the laws would be restricting.  Stricter gun laws can keep people safer by making them unavailable for criminals and mentally ill people.  But if gun control is something you really oppose, then why don’t you get off of Facebook and write your congressman or senator?

NO

by Tyler Goucher

Last week, President Obama initiated 23 executive actions that could potentially modify the Second Amendment of our constitution and leave millions of Americans without a way to protect themselves.

These actions are not only a violation of our natural born rights, they lay the groundwork for a tyrannical, dictatorial agenda led by King Obama himself.  If we allow the Second Amendment to be altered, we are basically giving the government the power to alter any other amendment or law that they deem necessary in order to “protect the American people.”

Isn’t it convenient that there has been more publicized mass shootings since Obama’s re-election than ever before? Are the American people so naïve to believe that this has all just been some kind of coincidence? Obama’s administration is aiming to come after our guns in order to fully domesticate us and to keep us entirely dependent on government care.

They will start by blaming assault weapons and semi-autos in order to ease the American people into the idea of completely abolishing the Second Amendment.

How will the government justify their actions, you ask? By staging false flag attacks on U.S. soil that can be blamed on the Second Amendment.

If they can make the American people believe that guns are the primary reason for violent crime in the United States, it gives the perfect pretext to ban our firearms. FBI statistics have shown that guns are on the bottom of the list of violent crime in the U.S., and in places where violent crime is up, gun ownership is down. It’s not the guns that are killing people; it’s the people that are killing people.

Most people who have not studied history aren’t aware that false flag attacks have been used for thousands of years in order to support government agenda. It is the perfect way to force feed fear down the general public’s mouths and to keep them living in “The Matrix.”

One thing’s for sure, if this mafia-owned government attempts to disarm the American people, a second American Revolution will commence. In 1776, the 13 colonies of North America broke off from the tyrannical British Empire and through blood, sweat and tears, the Declaration of Independence was signed, creating the United States of America.

Think of today’s government as Britain’s Empire in the 1700s. We need to realize we are being taken over by foreign interests and our only line of defense is to secede from the union and reboot the Constitution. If we won’t fight for our own rights and liberties, will we fight for the generations to come? Or will our children and grandchildren be the victims of our lack of patriotism?