Guns and control

While guns are an instrument of death and should be more closely looked after and a little less accessible, the class, in our discussions, was overlooking a few things. One of the questions that grew out of the movie was, why can't a bullet cost $5,000? Because guns are not really the problem. We the people are. I went to this thing while visiting my grandparents, its a self defense class for seniors sponsored and hosted by the local police department. We went to the firing range and the instructor (a former detective), after showing clips of officers who were in bad situations that involved weapons, told everyone in the class that guns were not the problem. I agree. The officer, who has been shot at several times, continued to say "I can take a gun load it, turn the safety off, and put it down on a table. It will sit on that table forever. It will never harm anyone unless a person picks it up and pulls the trigger with the intent to harm another." guns don't kill people, people kill people. They use guns to assist them in the killing, but it is merely a tool. There are places in the united states where guns are a necessity, these are places where a person can walk out of his or hers home and immediately runs the risk of getting slaughtered by a bear or other animal. We have 11,000 deaths by way of guns in the united states, if we had no guns and someone wanted to kill another person there are always some other equally effective methods that a person intent on killing would find.