DISCLAIMER: As a thought experiment, I have been assigned to argue the opposite of my actual views on a controversial subject. Please note these are not my actual views.
Before the end of the first four months of 2018, there were 23 confirmed school shootings in the United States with a combined death toll of 43 persons, including two Kindergartners. This is ridiculous to say the least, as in our modern society, we could have easily stopped all of these senseless acts of violence with restrictions on firearms and ammunition.
Specifically, firearms used in most mass shootings, such as assault rifles and high-capacity firearms should be banned entirely. No good arguments can be made for keeping these weapons of mass destruction legal, as they are simply constructed to have the highest rate of fire possible with the lowest possible amount of time required to reload them. These are objects made simply to have high kill counts in a wartime situation, but for a civilian, they only have one use: gun violence.
Let’s take a look at the Arkansas Tech Campus, for example, but more specifically, my dorm, Turner. I live on the third floor of the Turner building, facing out across the second largest parking lot on campus. From my window, I can see across to Paine Residence Hall, Witherspoon, and I even have an almost direct line of sight to the Pavilion and Baztech, the most popular walking path on campus.
If I were someone with a mental disability or a grudge against Arkansas Tech University, in today’s society, I could easily obtain a high capacity and high rate of fire assault rifle, open my window and start taking shots. It we be almost like a repeat of the Las Vegas concert shooting almost a year ago. If that wasn’t a large enough indicator that we need to ban assault rifles, I don’t know what is.
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