Post IV: "Civil Disobedience"

An example of a situation today where people are working for change in the name of justice and fairness is gun control. People are fighting against passing the law of gun control for many reasons. First, guns are a part of our amendments. The right to bear arms is guarenteed by the second amendment. Guns are used for many things like hunting, protection, having fun and more, but they also have caused many problems. In recent years there have been some school shootings including Sandy Hook elementary school where 20 children and 6 adults were fatally shot. Since then, people fought but congress failed to pass major gun-controll legislations. A couple days ago, another school shooting occurred. A senior at Arapaho High School shot two students (putting one in critical condition but neither died) then killed himself. After more and more massacres and tragedies occur, the question becomes a greater topic. Should there be a law banning all guns? People are fighting to ban the guns because they feel if they cut access to the guns, then there will be less shootings. People are also against banning guns because they feel that if the criminal knew that everyone had guns to protect themselves, then the criminal would think twice about the situation because it puts the criminal in danger knowing the people have guns to protect themselves. In my opinion, guns should not be banned. The gun doesn't shoot itself, its the person behind the gun that pulls the trigger. If guns were taken away, then the criminal would still have an urge to kill but with a knife, baseball bat, or whatever they could kill with (basically anything). Then what? Ban those too? In my opinion, its not the weapon its the person.
Thoreau said, "For government is an expedient by which men would fain succeed in letting one another alone; and, as has been said, when it is there not be a government in which majorities do not virtually decide right and wrong, but consequence?'' (Thoreau p.g. 2) This states that the government is interfering with the success of the people. If the government just left them alone and was less controlling, people would get along better. This relates to gun control because if the government stayed out of what the people did as individuals and as a community, the people would figure out their own problems and find success. This also applies when Thoreau says, "In which majorities decide only those questions to which the rule of expediency is applicable? Must a citizen ever for a movement, or in the least degree, resign his consequence then?" (Thoreau p.g. 1) This also applies because its stating that the majority or the government is making the choices. It should be the peoples choice. When something wrong happens, it the people to blame not the government.