Guns

I am all for increased gun control laws, if that means keeping Americans safe.
For a AP Gov't assignment, we had to learn about how an act or bill affected the United States. I researched the Brady Bill. The Brady Bill was a mandate that required all individuals to complete a background check and follow the waiting period before recieving a gun. These checks were needed in order to make sure certain individuals weren't a threat to citizen safety.
I really had no stance on this issue because I didn't really understand the full depths of it. Now that we are learning more about how certain political issues are affecting the public and how different people feel about this issue, I have made up my mind.
I think that we need stricter gun control laws, so that incidents like what happened in the VT massacre and in Tucson don't happen again. The federal government needs to be stricter in their decision to give guns out to people. In the VT massacre, the shooter had been mentally ill. He had completed the background check and the waiting period, but failed to complete a test on his mental health. It was recommended by the court that he complete treatment for his condition and then he was administered a gun. He did not complete the treatment. The court didn't follow through to make sure that he did. So many innocent people died in that situation that could have been stopped if the government had kept closer tabs on the people they allow to have guns.
Giving guns to every single person in the United States doesn't solve any problem. The government is just making the problem worse. People will become reliant on the use of guns for everything. Plus, shouldn't the American people feel safe enough to not need guns? What is the government doing with our tax dollars? They should be making sure that the police force is able to help the American people to the best of their ability. It's the government's job to keep people safe.
Of course, people should be able to take care of themselves, but then it comes to question: why do we need government then (if it's every man for himself)?

Yeah, so that's most of my opinion on the issue.