although he was only a suspect in the bombing, his weapon should have been repossessed before he could have done harm to anyone, such as the FBI agent. On the morning of February 29, 2000 a 6 year-old girl was attending class and was shot to death by a 7 year-old classmate. She was killed because of an argument the day before the shooting, according to The Monroe Evening News. However, she did not deserve to die. How many more innocent people will have to die before the government begins to regulate gun control? Guns are becoming one of the top issues in the newspapers (The Monroe Evening News). There have been 394 incidents of students bringing guns to school in the United States since 1998 (Sutton). Legislators say that the law cannot prevent the tragedy of the fatal shootings in the schools 3(The Detroit Free Press). Furthermore, the legislators say that the only way that the tragedies could be prevented is to require a search of every student going to elementary school. However, I disagree, if the schools had the proper security that should be required, none of these incidences would have taken place. The students of the schools should be searched on a daily basis. The schools are supposed to be a safe place for the children, but are actually places were some children go and die.Due to the recent school shootings, politicians urged the voters to make gun violence an issue in this years past election. President Clinton expressed outrage over the fact that a 7 year-old was able to obtain a .32 caliber gun to kill someone with it. He said that this illustrates why Congress must act now on his proposal to tighten restrictions on handguns and implement safety measures such as child-proof locks (The Detroit News). I feel that childproof locks are not the answer to this problem. A child will be able to figure out how to work it anyways.Other countries, such as China and Japan, have stricter gun control laws. These two coun...
