Being from Japan, where strict gun control is in place, I am always surprised how some people even oppose to background checks. Being honest, I hate to see photos or reasoning on Facebook against gun control. Most of them are like this: Which signs are better? "No weapons allowed" or "Guard are heavily armed"
I understand how deep the gun culture is here in the United States. I understand the rationale that having gun would keep danger out of your property or yourself.
Another rationale is that nothing could prevent disaster in Newtown.
Maybe. But, how many of this kind of disasters are we allowing to happen? What's important is what to do to save lives that otherwise may be lost by another gun violence.
I don't like the idea that some of uneducated, untrained people have access to such dangerous weapons. And that's the point of assault weapon ban. It may take a while to have control over the weapon. But, Keeping the dangerous weapons out of dangerous population altogether is the key I think.
I hear some say that gun control is only for law-abiding citizens, doesn't work for people breaking law. To me that's why we need to take all guns off of streets. Even law-abiding people can mistakenly grant somebody else access to their weapons. Actually, that's how the shooting in Newtown happens.
I feel like opposition to gun control, like NRA, is saying that gun violence like one in Newtown is necessary evil to protect their value or idea.
Letting these lives taken away is necessary? Really? Those twenty innocent lives are just sacrifice to protect their value?
I do understand that no regulation can prevent all gun violence. But, we need to take each lives taken away by selfish acts seriously. And as Obama says, we need to put politics aside.
