Sara Zavala

Ms. Storer

English 3 H, Block 4

October 27, 2019

There has been a current debate regarding the laws directed towards gun control,

this subject has proven to be a delicate and difficult matter. Presently there are two sides

that could be taken; the enacting of gun control laws and the ignorance of gun control

laws as they are. Persistence in the further proclamation of gun control laws are a

crucial necessity to be acted upon, because of the endangerment caused towards

minorities and death rates.

Today’s studies demonstrate guns are the leading cause of death by homicide

and 15% percent of child deaths. As a student attending high school in the United

States, I often come to witness news of young students who suffer from shootings

during school hours. Witnessing such news of children taking their parent’s gun with

concerning facility, then taking the gun to school and proceeding to kill and harm other

children makes me wonder, – “How safe am I?”. I am aware I attend a safe school, but

the feeling does linger regarding my safety, seeing the news of the recent shootings

makes one think about the urgency of insisting gun control laws.

A school shooting survivor, 17-year-old high school student called David Hoggs

declares the shootings began at his third block, at first students believed they where

performing a drill. Unfortunately, they were experiencing an actual shooting, David

Hoggs describes the ambience as, “a calm melancholy”, while a was reading David’s

testimony I felt sorrow knowing students where conscient they had a probability of
dying and felt no amazement when finding out they where experiencing a school

shooting. Sadly 17 students died at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Florida.

Our current events are simply evidence and reasons for the law to notice and

acknowledge that the United States is in need of persevering gun control laws. If action

is not taken seriously more casualties will continue to occur, and the wildly affected

victims will be minorities with increasing death rates.