This article is about the Jaksonville shooting suspect, David Katz and his mental health. He open fired on a video game tournament killing two people and injuring ten before then killing himself. Elijah Clayton, a football player, and Taylor Robertson were killed at the gaming event. Katz's parents have said that they had attempted to provide him with psychiatric care for most of his life. This relates directly to the March for Our Lives movement that calls for gun control. Both guns used during this shooting were purchased legally, even though Katz had a history of mental illness. The ongoing debate surrounding gun control is a heated topic, but while it's being debated more mass shootings are taking place. Every other developed country in the world has gun control laws proving that the right to carry doesn't have to be compromised by safety measures. The United States has a 25.2 higher rate of gun related homicides than developed countries with strict gun control laws. Colonial laws shouldn't apply to modern day weapons.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-jacksonville-david-katz-08272018-story.html#nt=oft13a-1gp1
These statistics are very eye-opening, you are so right! The United States shouldn't dwell in the past and should think of the present/future.
ReplyDeleteIf there's so many people who support gun control, why isn't it being implemented?
ReplyDeleteI agree we need to update our gun laws to stop these tradgedies from happening
ReplyDeleteHow did this man get a gun. The government needs to do background checks on these lads
ReplyDeleteThis is spectacular. I agree that we should be doing more then just sitting around and waiting for a conversation to start. We need to already have started it and have set things in motion. Cause once the light at the end of the tunnel fades we all will of forgot about things like this but very few will remember.
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